Alexandria Smith’s surreal mixed-media paintings are neither landscapes nor portraiture in her functions, which she constructs with painted wooden, the regulations of composition are unbound by physics—it is the things of dreams. The Bronx-born artist, who is primarily based concerning New York and London, where by she is head of painting at the Royal Faculty of Artwork, will have her initially exhibition with Gagosian on New York’s Higher East Facet this week. Smith was also between the artists who appeared in the gallery’s buzzy demonstrate of socially engaged artwork, “Social Is effective,” curated by Antwaun Sargent past tumble. For Smith’s forthcoming solo exhibit, “In Fake Gravitas and Dream Aborted Givens”…