Gust

Adam Alessi

Gust, 202188.9 x 175.26cmPrice on Request
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Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This captivating painting features a striking contrast of colors and textures. The central figure is depicted against a vibrant green backdrop, wearing a bold, flowing purple garment that dominates the composition. The subject's dark, windswept hair and pale, expressionless face create a striking, haunting presence. The artwork employs a distinctive style, combining realistic portrayal with an almost ethereal, dreamlike quality. This work likely explores themes of identity, emotion, and the human experience, inviting the viewer to ponder the figure's enigmatic persona and the artist's underlying intentions. ...

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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 AlessiWho is This Who is Coming, 2021Price on Request
Gust
Adam AlessiGust, 2021Price on Request
Blue Narcissus
Adam AlessiBlue Narcissus, 2021Price on Request
The Shaking Hand
Adam AlessiThe Shaking Hand, 2021Price on Request
Cruiser's Creek
Adam AlessiCruiser's Creek, 2022Price on Request
Mermaid
Adam AlessiMermaid, 2022Price on Request
Midnight Marionettes
Adam AlessiMidnight Marionettes, 2022Price on Request
Figure Study #1
Adam AlessiFigure Study #1, 2022Price on Request
The Path
Adam AlessiThe Path, 2022Price on Request
Exciter
Adam AlessiExciter, 2022Price on Request
Neighborhood
Adam AlessiNeighborhood, 2023Price on Request
Waiter 2
Adam AlessiWaiter 2, 2023Price on Request
Untitled
Adam AlessiUntitled, 2024Price on Request
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Gallery
Clearing
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. ...