“Untitled (W8 / Cadeau),” Iron, Galvanized Zinc Nails, Exposed Silk (4 Silkworm Cocoons exposed on VHS Television playing “Lawrence of Arabia : Tape 1 / Part 1” continually for approximately 100 days), Collected Potable Water (The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Southeast Promenade, South Fountain, 500 mL, pH 6.6). 2019. 12” H x 8” W x 6” D.

Untitled Mirage 8 (Napoleon Crossing the Alps), Archival Inkjet Print. 2019

alexandre ali reza dorriz (he/him/his) is a Los-Angeles-based artist, writer, and educator whose intermittent research, fieldwork, and curatorial projects examine optics, power, and patronage through structural understandings of public and private resources such as water and land-use. dorriz is the co-founder of the arts organization and artist collective Crenshaw Dairy Mart alongside artists Patrisse Cullors and noé olivas. Since 2017, dorriz has been conducting fieldwork and research in Kern County within the Central Valley of California, a contested and politicized site shaped by industrial agriculture, water diversion, water banking, and the privatization of public aquifers, interlinked with the global political sanctioning of Iranian goods. dorriz works across lens and time based processes between photography, film, installation, sculpture, and text informed by oral histories, abolitionist praxis, and benefactory provenance. he is the author of "Creeping Tender" (2021) for Art Journal, Volume 80, and "abolitionist aesthetics and the abolitionist movement: Los Angeles Grassroots Organizations and the Aesthetic Foundations of Real-time Abolition" (2023), co-written with Patrisse Cullors, for the UCLA Law Review, Volume 69.6. dorriz is the curator of Yes on R: Archives and Legal Conceptions (Part 1: 2011 - 2013) (2020), co-curated with Autumn Breon; CARE NOT CAGES: Processing a Pandemic (2020), co-curated with Ana Briz; YES ON R! YES ON J! SHUT DOWN MCJ! A Decade in Abolitionist Aesthetics (2023), co-curated with Autumn Breon; and FREE THE LAND! FREE THE PEOPLE! a study of the abolitionist pod (2024) presented as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, an initiative of the Getty, as lead curator of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart collective. dorriz's work has been featured and reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly and Artforum. he has previously exhibited at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Visitor Welcome Center, Human Resources Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. dorriz currently teaches at the University of Southern California and previously for the Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA at Prescott College, where he taught studio practice and critical museology. dorriz has participated in residencies at Denniston Hill, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and has received his MFA at the University of Southern California and BA at the University of California, Berkeley.

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