Exciter
Exciter
Exciter

Adam Alessi

Exciter, 202230.5 x 22.87cmSign in to view price
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary artwork features a striking composition of bold colors, shapes, and textures. The central focus is a large, amorphous pink form that appears to be emerging from behind a translucent veil or curtain, creating a sense of mystery and intrigue. The background is composed of dark, earthy tones punctuated by irregular, organic shapes in burgundy, suggesting a surreal, dreamlike atmosphere. The artist's unique painting style and blend of abstract and figurative elements invite the viewer to ponder the work's deeper symbolic meaning and the artist's intended message. ...

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Adam Alessi
Artist
Adam Alessi
B.1994, American

Adam Alessi is a self-taught artist whose tense and bizarre oil and flashe paintings depict tricksters, dolls, masks and puppets amidst distorted perspectives. Alessi’s work, much like the charlatans it is depicting, is confusing and ambiguous, tricking the viewer with its stretched out figures and long and guilty noses. Such artistic hoax contradicts the essential purpose of logic, which aligns that which is external with that which is internal. Instead comes a mischievous blend of inseparable truths and lies, with bodies seemingly human that are in fact fake silhouettes. Alessi’s practice is especially impactful when considered alongside the real-life instances of the media and those in power “tricking” the populations in times of crisis. His work becomes alarming and provokes anxiety over the human vulnerability to lies, frauds and misrepresentation. At the same time, however, it gives space to the unknown and the uncontrollable and creates a reality of magic, spells and fate. The darkness of Alessi’s work is threatening, not so much to human truthfulness, but more importantly, to an often reductive impulse to know it all. ...

Adam Alessi: Artworks
Who is This Who is Coming
Adam Alessi
Who is This Who is Coming, 2021
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Gust
Adam Alessi
Gust, 2021
88.9 x 175.26cm
Blue Narcissus
Adam Alessi
Blue Narcissus, 2021
91.44 x 121.92cm
The Shaking Hand
Adam Alessi
The Shaking Hand, 2021
165.1 x 210.82cm
Cruiser's Creek
Adam Alessi
Cruiser's Creek, 2022
122 x 183cm
Mermaid
Adam Alessi
Mermaid, 2022
175 x 89cm
Midnight Marionettes
Adam Alessi
Midnight Marionettes, 2022
175 x 89cm
Figure Study #1
Adam Alessi
Figure Study #1, 2022
45 x 37.5cm
The Path
Adam Alessi
The Path, 2022
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Exciter
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Exciter, 2022
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Neighborhood
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Neighborhood, 2023
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Waiter 2
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Untitled
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Untitled, 2024
55.88 x 66.04cm
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Gallery
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New York City, Los Angeles, Brussels

C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...

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