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Alexis Duque
The Musician, Large Lating American Modernist Oil Paintng

2001

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Alexis Duque Imaginatively charting the psychological experience of space, Alexis Duque produces paintings and drawings of buildings and domestic interiors stacked and conglomerated into trippy, absurd mounds and towers. His compositions are detailed, highly organized, and meticulously architectural. With a psychedelic precision reminiscent of M.C. Escher’s, Duque uses perspectival tricks and surrealistic overlapping to render dozens of skyscrapers as a single red tower; or homes, living rooms, train tracks, and alleys as a mass on the verge of collapsing into itself like a black hole. The wheeling bird’s-eye view that he often employs recalls the Italian Futurists’ soaring imagery of cities as seen from airplanes. Through his playful stacking and piling, he reorders cities to examine the formal properties of their architecture. Alexis Duque holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Antioquia, Colombia. His work has been exhibited in numerous venues including: at El Museo del Barrio, The Drawing Center and Praxis International Gallery in New York; The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA; Champion Contemporary, Austin, TX; The Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, Midland, MI; RudolfV Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Galleri Oxholm in Copenhagen, Denmark. Duque’s work has been featured in several publications, including: "Imagine Architecture: Artistic Visions Of The Urban Realm”, “Caribbean: Together Apart Contemporary Artists from (part of) the Caribbean" Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton, Blue Canvas Magazine, LandEscape Art review, Beautiful Decay, Artistaday, New American Paintings, Studio Visit Magazine, The East Hampton Star, The East Hampton Press and El Diario of New York. Duque currently lives and works in NYC. Less Education: B.F.A, University of Antioquia, Colombia, 1995 Exhibitions: SOLO EXHIBITIONS •Onloaded: Alexis Duque, curated by Ted G. Decker. Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art (phICA), Phoenix, AZ, February 20 – March 15, 2015 •Metropolis, Praxis Gallery, New York, NY, September 13- October 20, 2012 •Babel, Praxis Gallery, Miami, FL, September 12 – October 15, 2009 •El Dorado, Praxis Gallery, New York, NY, February 5th – March 12, 2009 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 "ARTPRIZE 2016", GRCC Collins Art gallery, Grand Rapids, MI, September 21th to October 9th 2016. "Paradise in the City" Local Project Art Space, New York, July 14th to August 6th, 2016. “Shaky Ground” Curated by Dominick Lombardi at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY "Exquisite Porch" Curated by Dominick Lombardi, Morean Arts Center, St Petersburg, Florida "The Bronx Speaks: Our Home" Curated by Sarah Corona and presented by the Bronx Arts Alliance in conjunction with New York Armory Arts Week 2016, BronxArtSpace and Andrew Freedman Home, New York. "Hashtags Unplugged" Caelum Gallery, Chelsea, New York. 2015 “Starting Small” curated by Danielle Gregga, Central Booking Art Gallery, New York, NY "Map of the New Art" Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton Collection. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island Of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy. 2014 "Geometrical Abstraction in New York, A Fresh Look" Curated by Anne Cecile Surga, Sammer Gallery, New York. "Concrete Muse" Curated by Krista Saunders, The Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY. "Global Perspective" a group exhibition held at two New York Locations: Elisa Contemporary Art in Riverdale, NY and The Eugénia Au Kim Design Studio in Bridgehampton, NY. "A Creative Oasis" Curated by Ted Decker and organized by phICA-Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art, The City Hall of Phoenix, Arizona "A Different Kind of HOME/SHOW" Curated by Kathy Zeiger, DODDS & EDER HOME, Sag Harbor, NY "Structured Spaces" Elisa Contemporary Art, Riverdale, NY "Espora Project" Organized by Masquelibros, (ICP) International Center of Photography Library and Museum Bookstore, New York, NY 2013 "Sommerudstilling ’13" at Galleri Oxholm, Copenhagen, Denmark "For Which it Stands" The Lodge gallery, New York, NY “About Face: New Portraiture Now” Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Black Beans/Liquid Gold” Galerie R3I, Berlin, Germany "Immigrant Too" curated by Gabriel de Guzman at NOMAA, NY "A House Full of Friends" Curated by Turid Meeker and David Gibson at NOoSPHERE, New York, NY "Paintings" Galleri Oxholm", Copenhagen, Denmark "The Architecture of an Idea: Illustrations and concepts", The Alden B.Dow Museum of Science and Art, Midland, MI. 2012 “Masquelibros” Organized by Tríplica Equipo and the UNED, Madrid, Spain. “Blind Reproduction” A Gathering of the Tribes, New York, NY “Puebla Ciudad Mural” Mural Project, Puebla, Mexico. 2011 "El Museo's Bienal: The(S)Files 2011" El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY "Cluster" AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Illustrious” Guga Galleries, Newark, NJ “EastXWestXHarlem” Floor4Art Gallery, New York, NY 2010 “Around the Way” Curated by Rocio Aranda Alvarado and Trinidad Fombella and organized by Macy’s and El Museo del Barrio, NY “Interrupted Landscapes” Champion Contemporary, Austin, TX “Weaving in and Out” No Longer Empty, New York, NY “Super Cluster” Praxis Gallery, Miami, FL "Curate NYC" Rush Arts, New York, NY
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