The Worm Cycle 4, 2004 Mixed Media on Velvet 26 x 22 inches Alfred DeCredico Stealing from the Dead Mike Weiss Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of new paintings, drawings, and sculptures by the American artist Alfred DeCredico entitled "Stealing from the Dead". Why worms, African masks, rejection letters, condoms, fishing lures, crosses, bulls eyes, wooden boats, hair, spinal columns, and a variety of other worldly materials? There are absolutely no answers, only possibilities and further questioning. In a sense, Alfred DeCredico's bold artistic agenda composes an operatic way of getting through this visual world of ours. Relics of the day found, dispersed, buried, forgotten, and ultimately resurrected bring to life, or back to life, highly evolved and charged iconographies of grace rendered. To understand the beauty and wisdom, humor and mistakes, and the realism and abstract nature of form, are the goals, have been the goals, and will remain the goals. Gorky, Pollock, Picasso, Goya, Duchamp, DeKooning... to name a few, and this stretches beyond the realm of painting, one could even mention Fellini, Nicholson, Pacino, and DeNiro, as well as Pavarotti, Domingo, and Carreras as artists of great faith and determination in the traditions of their chosen crafts. The seemingly effortless nature of Eastern painting, certain periods of African art, late modes of European modernism all get thrown into the soup that is the DeCredico universe. The viewer is shown a variety of passages that drift and float, caress and seduce, kiss and kill. Alfred DeCredico lives and works in Providence, RI. He has been a teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design for the last 23 years. On the occasion of DeCredico's first show at Mike Weiss Gallery, Mike Weiss Editions has published a full color catalogue of works by DeCredico. Exhibition: April 3 - May 1, 2004 Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 10am - 6pm and by appointment Mike Weiss Gallery 520 West 24th Street USA-New York, NY 10011 Telephone +1 212 691.6899 Fax +1 212 691.6877 Email info@mikeweissgallery.com www.mikeweissgallery.com |
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