‘From Darkness’ Book Release

November 19, 2016By AlecDesign, New Work, News No Comments

It’s finally ready, something that’s been simmering for a few years. From Darkness: The Space Helmet Paintings 2010-2015 is a compilation of over 40 works that make up the meat of this series beginning with strictly black and white with just the male and female characters, then the  addition of color and animals. It feels … Read More

Focus

September 30, 2016By AlecNew Work, Painting No Comments

Along with streamlining this website I’m feeling a necessary consolidation of my artistic practice. How can I shift my process to produce a result that has a more focused purpose? Something beyond following this crazy narrative, leaving behind a trail of odd sized canvases soaked with effort and wonder. To have self contained objects of … Read More

Expression Of Speed

September 29, 2016By AlecSculpture, New Work No Comments

    I was excited to be invited to Houston Berry’s curatorial debut “Expressions of Speed” at Wonderland SF this summer. It was a nice opportunity to create with a medium that I enjoy only periodically – I’ve played around with Sculpey and other types of clay before but this was by far my most detailed … Read More

Creep Photos

September 29, 2016By AlecNew Work, Photography No Comments

  Some new photography has been added to the photography section, like this one from my series of supernatural creeps taken in the Alabama Hills in California’s Eastern Sierras.

Sneak Peak

September 29, 2016By AlecNew Work No Comments

  Here’s a detail of a piece just completed and varnished. It’s so satisfying to get back to larger paintings. The background is one I’ve painted before but much smaller. One of my favorite corners in the Tenderloin.   Acrylic on canvas.

New Work for Summer 2016

September 28, 2016By AlecNew Work, Painting No Comments

‘La Casa Cosmica’ was painted for the 6 Year Anniversary show Simply Frida at Wonderland in San Francisco. All works we’re naturally tributes to Frida Kahlo and I wanted combine the look of atomic era “propaganda” art with a space background and morphing Frida’s iconic hair flowers into a bloom of nebulas. Opens July 16th … Read More