Bringing into focus works that resist broad classification, 'Ceremonies Out of the Air' illustrates Lemon’s characteristic style of deflection, or what he calls fugitivity.' His anarchic, movement-based works obliterate formalist conventions, skewer straightforward tellings of history, and consider how time and place materialize in muscle memory.
Mousse Magazine
Much like Lemon himself, the exhibition defies categorization, blending and blurring his roles as an artist, choreographer, and writer. The result is a body of work that is at once confounding and poetic, absurd yet deeply relatable, offering a fragmented yet illuminating glimpse into the intricate workings of the artist’s mind.
- Rebecca Schiffman, Hyperallergic
Working in the contexts of dance, drawing, painting, installation, and writing, New York–based Ralph Lemon has expanded what art can be through a generative practice that questions the conventions of his different disciplines and his body’s relationship to each.
- Maximiliano Duron, Art in America