Foreign & Domestic

This gallery’s name is a love note to the Lower East Side’s immigrant-rich, ever-evolving character. The ingenuity and ambition of those who came before and those who are here now.

The bunker-like space feels like a refuge. There’s even a small mirrored bagua over the entrance—a touch of Feng Shui to ward off negative energy. The artists shown here know each other. You can feel the community.

This is art with intention. There’s purpose in every mark, stroke, and drip. Paint is layered until it cracks. Fabric woven thread by thread. Ceramics shaped by hand over days.

The process of becoming made visible. Leading us to not just question the end result, but every moment that led up to it.

Alex Meurice, an American born to French parents and raised in Germany and London, founded Foreign & Domestic in 2022. The gallery’s name nods to the old auto repair shop shorthand for different kinds of foreign and domestic cars. Meurice’s own overlapping identities inform the gallery’s mission to show work that explores how cultures, processes, and people intersect.