Tomer Aluf Exhibition

Kansas

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KANSAS presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by Tomer Aluf.

Tomer Aluf’s paintings all use the word Oi!! as a point of departure. Oi!! is a casual British greeting. Oi!! is a subgenre of punk that surfaced after punk sold out. It looks different from the Yiddish “Oy,” but it sounds the same.

Aluf is attracted to symbols with multiple meanings and connotations. Here he employs a group of symbols: boots, donkeys, mules, eyes, 150 grams of almonds, swastikas, Indian swastikas, dots, Oi!!, triangles, breasts, pinching hands, a glass of wine, lobsters and carpets. But you see pairings and triads — the areola of the nipple, the assaulting lobster claw, the claw to the hand, the hand to the boot, the black to the white, the exclamation point to the bootie.

A dual narrative of artistic process and the myth of the painter unfolds in brush strokes and scant figuration. Inspiration and personal narrative refract in the lens of painting’s history. Like a misunderstood phrase, Aluf’s light touch and insouciance converses with the value and meaning of painting.

Tomer Aluf (b. 1977 Tel Aviv) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2013 and his BFA in 2005 from the Bezalel Academy in Israel and studied at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. His work has shown at James Fuentes Gallery, New York; Bodega Gallery, New York; The Bronx Museum, New York; Anna Kustera Gallery, New York; Soloway Gallery, New York; Dedalus Foundation, New York and Andel 31, Copenhagen. He is a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Dedalus foundation, NY and Artist-in-the-Marketplace Bronx Museum, NY. Aluf is Co-Director of SOLOWAY, Brooklyn, NY.

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Schedule

from September 06, 2014 to October 11, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-09-06 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Tomer Aluf

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