NYAB Event - Alexander Kaletski “Carton of Eden”

Alexander Kaletski “Carton of Eden”

Dillon Gallery

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In this new exhibit, Alexander Kaletski continues his remarkable if endless parade of eye-catching characters that inhabit our world. These paint and collage portraits display the spectacular, often riveting characters one can’t help but notice in the everyday. His use of printed cardboard packaging materials and their logos has guided the subject matter. Carton of Eden continues with the artist’s exploration of themes and their variations, this time capturing the luscious sexuality around us.

Beginning with commercial cardboard packaging to which collage has been added, through both line and color, the resulting artworks reveal, inform, provoke, but most often, they amuse.

After defecting from the Soviet Union in the 1970s, Kaletski became enthralled with the high quality and abundance of disposable packing materials in the USA. For the artist, these materials provided unique, if unusual, components for the creative process. A perceptive eye for the striking individual in the crowd, coupled with a mature, confident artistry, result in penetrating observations of the extraordinary individuals that populate our culture. In addition to the provocative images produced, the viewer is confronted with the amplification of the logo or design remnant of the original product contained, as well as the cardboard itself, scarred, pitted and torn, now artfully reborn.

Alexander Kaletski has exhibited his “Cardboard” works at the Aldrich Museum, the Nassau County Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Minsk as well as numerous galleries both here and abroad.

Media

• Painting
• Other

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