Midnight Marionettes
Midnight Marionettes
Midnight Marionettes
Midnight Marionettes

Adam Alessi

Midnight Marionettes, 2022175 x 89cmSign in to view price
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The artwork features a striking portrait with a bold, expressive style. The composition is centered on the figure's face, which is rendered in a muted color palette of browns and ochres. The distinctive features, including the piercing gaze and pronounced jawline, create a sense of intensity and depth. The brushwork is gestural and textured, suggesting an Expressionist approach that emphasizes the emotional resonance of the subject. The overall impression is one of a psychologically charged and introspective portrait, hinting at the artist's intention to capture the inner world of the individual depicted. ...

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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
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Blue Narcissus
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Blue Narcissus, 2021
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Cruiser's Creek, 2022
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Midnight Marionettes
Adam Alessi
Midnight Marionettes, 2022
175 x 89cm
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Figure Study #1, 2022
45 x 37.5cm
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The Path, 2022
45 x 37.5cm
Exciter
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Exciter, 2022
30.5 x 22.87cm
Neighborhood
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Neighborhood, 2023
30.5 x 22.9cm
Waiter 2
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Waiter 2, 2023
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Untitled, 2024
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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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