Alex Grimley holds degrees from Bennington College (B.A., Studio Art & Art History) and the University of Texas at Austin (M.A., Art History), where he is currently working toward a Ph.D. His research focuses on modern and contemporary art with an interdisciplinary focus on experimental music, abstract painting, and landscape. His master’s thesis, Morton Feldman in Three Senses, explored phenomenologies of silence, scale, and saturation in Feldman’s music and the work of Morris Louis, Jules Olitski, and Donald Judd.
His paper “Newman’s Variety” was presented at the Menil Collection’s exhibition Barnett Newman: The Late Work, 1965–1970, and he has lectured on 19th French and American landscape painting at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a regular contributor to the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, contributing over 30 articles on artists historical and contemporary.
He has written essays on Kenneth Noland, the Washington Color School, and Jules Olitski for major exhibitions at Yares Art. In 2022, he authored the gallery’s Jules Olitski 100 Years, 100 Paintings: A Centennial Exhibition. His essays have also appeared in exhibition catalogues for Paul Kasmin Gallery, Upsilon Gallery, and Hollis Taggart Gallery, among others. He’s written on contemporary landscape for Root Quarterly, and he is a regular art reviewer for The Brooklyn Rail.