MILDREDS LANE

During the month of October 2020 Alexis Zambrano lived and worked in Mildred's Lane, a 94+ acre project site in the Pennsylvania woods on the Upper Delaware River. The project is an ongoing collaboration with Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett with their son Grey Rabbit Puett.

 Artists from around the world convene at Mildred's Lane seasonally, coevolving pedagogical strategies around contemporary topics that concern us. There, Zambrano continued his painting practice and engaged in activities with other residents such as the recollections of herbs, mushrooms, and nuts, in order to prepare medicines, practicing social engagement in every aspect of life centered around domesticity.

For over two decades, Mildred's Lane has functioned as a working-living-researching experiment in living, encompassing a series of rarified experiences that focus on the way of living as an art practice.

 Emphasizing Zambrano's holistic approach to nature —often producing his own inks and tools from fruit and natural pigments— this residence allowed him to further explore the possibility an environmentally-conscious art practice through communal life.