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Alex AchavalOvercoming Apathy
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Born in 1986, Alex Acheval’s work can be described in many different categories, especially contemporary portraiture. With the added uncharacteristic element or found object seen throughout the “paintbrush girl” series, in which wooden brushes are applied to canvas or wood panel after seeing such an idea in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Acheval’s work represents the obstacles one must overcome in life, of overpainting and pretending it never existed or embracing it. Achaval creates a unity between disjointed elements as if they were always meant to exist together. His works can be described as painted collages which range in subject matter and theme, but almost all feature a strong female form with a world of imagery colliding around her. By not following logical criteria, but instead basing only on subjective associations and formal parallels, the viewer is able to experience a new personal association.
Alex Acheval lives and works in Seattle and is founder of Artificial Gallery in Pike place market.
Overcoming Apathy incorporates a variety of materials beyond the artist's regular plastic, metal or trademark paintbrushes, but introduces a keyboard covering the woman's face as well as various circuit boards which add a futuristic element to the image. Whilst the overall tone of the painting is warm with sunset reds, oranges, yellows and pinks, the pastel mint green keyboard adds an unusual three-dimensional quality and a different emotion to the work.
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- CreatorAlex Achaval (1986)
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- Gallery LocationLondon, GB
- Reference Number1stDibs: LU43632067273
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