Alex Michon

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Psychobilly Death Doll, painting by Alex Michon, shown in Goth Moth at the Transition Gallery in 2004

Alex Michon is a British artist, based in London, and runs the Transition Gallery in Hackney with Cathy Lomax.

1 Career
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Career

Alex Michon is a graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. She exhibits her work, which is mostly painting and drawing. She also writes for Arty magazine and Garageland. Since 2004 Michon has been a co-director of The Transition Gallery and in 2005 became editor (with Olly Beck) of Critical Friend a review-based art publication. After Adrian Searle's criticisms of Stella Vine in 2004, she wrote a letter to him, defending painting:

as the old/new YBAs prepare for yet another retrospective, what is longed for is, if not an overthrow of the existing order then at least a loosening of it? ... You also write that "painters are mostly a conservative lot". As someone who has just finished an MA, I can assure you that there are many so called conceptual artists being rehashed through colleges who are deeply rooted in a kind of stymied art speak and who are making work from a deeply conservative place. Painters are no less or more conservative than artists working in other media.^[1]

Michon's work in the Girl on Girl show at the Transition Gallery in 2004 was described:

Alex Michon draws, paints, embroiders and decoupages over the pages of romantic fiction and linen hankies; layering images of sexual encounters, and personal disappointments she disrupts the nicey, nicey text whilst acknowledging a fascination with its romantic hinterland of imaginary fulfilment.^[2]

Michon is also known for having worked with The Clash 1977–83, when she designed several ranges of clothing for the band. She is currently writing a book about her work at that time, and Michon is also featured in Paul Gorman's book The Look: Adventures In Rock & Pop Fashion.