83. BRIAN
ALFRED
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Fukuro
2011
Acrylic
on canvas
163x173
cm
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Riot!
2009
Acrylic
on canvas
254x330
cm
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Ashplume
2010
Acrylic
on canvas
152.5x122
cm
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
1973, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ( USA)
Nowadays:
He based in Brooklyn, New York (USA)
Studies:
1999
MFA, Yale University
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1997 BFA, Pennsylvania State University
Themes and
style:
Alfred’s
cropped, abstract works illicit different slices of time: defining the
dualities of magic and menace and chaos and calm. There are jubilant explosions
characteristic of winning, juxtaposed with fluorescent plumes of pink fire
speckled with dancing grey shrapnel on the canvas, that are indicative of
crashing.
Beyond the aesthetics of the race, Alfred explores the
global threads that feed into making all aspects of the race possible.
Depicting pieces and scenes of tracks across the world, oil slogans, and
referencing companies that contribute monetarily to the races, he broadens
consciousness. Alfred limns wealth, excess, opulence, money, speed, oil,
disaster, beauty, machismo, calamity, and the tragically thin line between
living, and dying.
Techniques:
His work
consists of collages, paintings, and digital animations.
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe (upcoming)
‘New Animations' Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
‘Beauty In Danger’ Salon 94 Video Wall, New York
2013 ‘Storms and Stress’ Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 ‘It’s Already The End Of The World’ Frist Center for
Visual Art, Nashville, TN
2011 ‘Co-op’ Giraud Segalot Pissarro, New York
2011 ‘Rise Above’ Haunch of Venison, London
2010 ‘It’s Already The End Of The World’ Haunch of Venison,
New York (catalog)
2009 ‘Majic Window’ Studio La Citta, Verona
2008 ‘Millions Now Living Will Never Die!!!’ Haunch of
Venison, Berlin (catalog)
2007 ‘Global Warning,’ SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2006 ‘Surveillance,’ Haunch of Venison, Zurich (catalog)
2006 ‘Space is the Place!’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2005 ‘Paper and Pixels,’ Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2005 ‘Conspiracy?,’ Haunch of Venison, London (enhanced CD
ROM catalog)
2004 ‘The Future is Now!,’ Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
(enhanced CDROM catalog)
2004 Overload,’ Max Protetch Gallery, New York
2004 ‘Fallout,’ Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University,
Lewisberg, PA
2003 Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles (enhanced CD ROM
catalog)
2002 Max Protetch Gallery, New York (enhanced CD ROM catalog)
2000 Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Group exhibitions
2013 ‘Mercury Retrograde:Animated Realities’, Stephen
Stoyanov Gallery, NYC
2012 ‘exUrban Screens’, The Frankston Arts Centre/Cube 37,
Melbourne, Australia
2012 15th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2012 ‘Sourced’, Steven Vail Fine Arts, Des Moines, Iowa
2011 ‘Beyond’, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2011 ‘Videosphere: A New Generation’, Albright Knox Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
2011 ‘Animations’ Big Screen Project, Big Screen Plaza, NY,
NY
2011 ‘Printer’s Proof’, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, NY, NY
2010 ‘12th International Cairo Bienniale’ Cairo, Egypt
2010 ‘The Big Screen Project’ Eventi Plaza HD Screen, NY, NY
2010 ‘Me, Undoubtedly. 1309 Faces’ Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,
Germany
2010 ‘Aichi Triennale’, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art,
Nagoya, Japan
2010 ‘Surface Tension’, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend,
IN
2010 ‘OneDotZero’, EMPAC Digital Art Center, Troy, NY
2010 ‘New Art For A New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions
2000-2010”, Orange County Museum of Art, CA
2009 ‘Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities’ Big Medium
Gallery, Austin, Texas
2008 ‘Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary
Art.’ Contemporary Art Center Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
2008 ‘Ru Ru Ru Landscape: How I see the World Around Me’ Shizuoka
Prefecture Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
2008 ‘Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks’ @ Den Frie
Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen Denmark
2007 ‘The Shapes of Space,’ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
2007 ‘System Error: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning,’
Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna, Italy
2007 ‘Art Fair Tokyo.’ Tokyo, Japan
2007 ‘Art Film.’ Art Basel, Switzerland
2006 ‘The 59th Minute’, Times Square Panasonic Astrovision
Screen, Creative Time, NYC
2006 ‘American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational
Exhibition,’ American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
2006 ‘Radar : Selections from the Kent and Vicki Logan
Collection’, Denver Art Museum
2006 ‘New Code’, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
2006 ‘Signal Channel: Contemporary Video Art’, Bemis Center
for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2005 ‘Produced at Eyebeam’, Eyebeam, NYC; ‘Surface’, Lucas
Schoormans Gallery, NYC
2005 ‘Art/+><Work’, Office Space, NYC
2004 ‘Metropolis,’ The National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne, Australia
2004 ‘Art and Architecture 1900-2000,’ Palazzo Ducale, Genoa,
Italy
2004 Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 ‘Trouble in Paradise,’ Van Brunt Gallery, New York
2004 ‘Happy Ending,’ Kingfisher Projects, Queens, NY
2003 ‘Toxic,’ Max Protetch Gallery, New York
2003 ‘Digital Showcase,’ Austin Museum of Digital Art
Awards
2011 Excellence
Award, Japan Media Arts Festival
2008 Penn State
Alumni Achievement Award
2006 Joan Mitchell
Foundation Award
American Academy of
Arts and Letters Purchase Award
Penn State Alumni
Award
2005 New York
Foundation of the Arts Inspiration Award
2003 Pollock-Krasner
Foundation Grant
1999 Phelps Berdan
Memorial Award
Skowhegan Match
Scholarship
1997 Edwin Zoller
Scholarship
Collections
Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, New York
Denver Art Museum,
Colorado
Montclair Art Museum,
New Jersey
National Gallery of
Victoria, Australia
Orange County Museum
of Art, California
Phoenix Museum of
Art, Arizona
San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, California
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York
Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York
In his own words:
“It
Takes A Million Years To Become Diamonds So Let's All Just Burn Like Coal Until
The Sky Is Black”
Representative
Galleries:
Hezi Cohen
Ameringer
Maharam
McEnery
Yohe
For
more Information:
http://www.amy-nyc.com/exhibitions/brian-alfred