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Sculptures Of Bunny Men By Alex Podesta
Sculptures of bunny men by Alex Podesta
ABOUT ALEX PODESTA:
I was born in North Carolina and got taller in Virginia. As an adult, I became a life-long child of New Orleans. My more formative artistic study took place at the Governor’s Magnet School for the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of New Orleans, where I earned an MFA in 2007.
In all of my recent work I have culled the rich fantasies, daydreams, misconceptions and experiences of childhood and re-contextualized them through the filters of adulthood, experience and education. This effort has been made in an attempt to plumb the depths of the creative and comprehensive naiveté of youth; to illustrate, in engaging and serio-comic ways, the role of fantasy, “othering” and conflict in nascent self-awareness; and, through the time honored tradition of solipsistic navel gazing, to pick gently at the loose thread of wistful escapism inherent in a quiet, down hill slide into maturity.
The central character in my works is usually found lost in a reverie of industriousness, paired with doppelganger or other machinations of his childish imagination. In concert, these figures toil at understanding, through experimentation or illustration, existential perplexities ranging from possibly surmountable commonplaces – e.g. What is loneliness and how is it combated? – To metaphysical impossibilities – e.g. Who is this god dude? And is he a hero? Like Superman? Or soldiers? Or knights on horseback? And what does hero mean anyway? Of course, no traction will really ever be gained with these pursuits. These boys and toys and bunny/man chimera will be forever locked in the Sisyphean toil of misapplication, miscomprehension and misunderstanding.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2013
- Jumper — The Front (New Orleans, LA)
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2012
2011
2010
- Alex Podesta: Collages — The Front (New Orleans, LA)
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2008
- City Watch — two-year outdoor installation, Falstaff building roof (New Orleans, LA)
- Bunnies, Barbies and Beasties — Curated by Andy Antippas. Barrister’s Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
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2007
- Copies and Doubles — Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
More Info - MirrorMirror — University of New Orleans Fine Arts Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
2002
- Corporal Works + Self-Reality — Project (Witchita, KS)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2014
- Aesthetic Affairs — Curated by Emily Lovejoy. Inner Recess. (New Orleans, LA)
- Back of Town — Curated by Hannah Wiessner. Treo Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
- The Front in Tokyo — Art Lab Akiba & Makii Masaru Fine Arts (Tokyo, Japan)
More Info - Alumni Exhibition – Alex Podesta, Nina Schwanse, Monica Zeringue — Curated by Rebecca Reynolds. UNO St. Claude Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
More Info - Year in Review 2013 — See.Me Exhibition Space (Long Island City, NY)
- Face Time — Curated by Brian Guidry and Mary Beyt. Acadiana Center for the Arts (Lafayette, LA)
More Info - CSA: 40 Years of Community-Sourced Art — Curated by Laura Roulet. Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA)
More Info - 18 & Life — The Front (New Orleans, LA)
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2013
- Scope, Miami: 2013 – Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series — South Miami Beach Oceanfront (Miami Beach, FL)
More Info - Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series – Art for Art’s Sake — L’entrepot (New Orleans, LA)
More Info - RWE1: The Front at Auburn University — Curated by Morgana King. Biggin Gallery, Auburn University. (Auburn, AL)
More Info - Presence — Curated by Emily Lovejoy. The Big Top. (New Orleans, LA)
- The Front: Union, Justice, Confidence — Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA)
More Info - Scope, New York: 2013 — Skylight at Moynihan Station at New York Post Office (New York City, NY)
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2012
- New Lease — The Front (New Orleans, LA)
More Info - (e)merge — 2nd Annual (e)merge Art Fair. Capitol Skyline Hotel. (Washington, DC)
More Info - Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) — Curated by Laura Richens. Carroll Gallery, Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
More Info - The Front at UAB — Curated by John Fields. University of Alabama, Birmingham. (Birmingham, AL)
More Info - Louisiana Contemporary — Curated by Rene Barilleaux. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, LA)
More Info - NOLANOW: The Human Figure — Curated by Don Marshall. Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
More Info - Southern Open 2012 — Curated by Rene Barilleaux. Acadiana Center for the Arts (Lafayette, LA)
More Info - Spaces: Antenna, The Front, Good Children — Curated by Amy Mackie. Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
More Info - Everything All at Once — Antenna Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
2011
2010
- Black Gold — The Front (New Orleans, LA)
More Info - EMERGE: St. Claude Arts District and Beyond: 41 New Orleans Artists from The Saratoga Collection — Curated by Terrence Sanders and David Houston. Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, LA)
More Info - Prospect.1.5: Everyday Hybrid — Curated by Dan Cameron. Isaac Delgado Gallery of Fine Arts (New Orleans, LA)
More Info - Postcards from New Orleans — Curated by Christopher Saucedo. The Front (New Orleans, LA)
- Postcards from New Orleans — Curated by Christopher Saucedo. Galerie im Andechshof (Innsbruck, Austria)
- ReFresh — The Front (New Orleans, LA)
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2009
- Two Eyes, a Nose and a Mouth — Curated by Christopher Saucedo. UNO Saint Claude Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
- Postcards From the CAC — Curated by Dan Cameron. Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
2008
- St. Claude Collective: a Prospect.1 Satellite Exhibition — Curated by Andy Antippas. Universal Furniture (New Orleans, LA)
- Bizer, Fields, Jones, Podesta — Curated by Arthur Roger. Arthur Roger Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
2007
- FabricFashionFantasy — Curated by Clayton Colvin. Space 301 (Mobile, AL)
- Podesta, Fields, Zeringue — Galerie im Andechshof (Innsbruck, Austria)
- It’s OK to Hang Out — University of New Orleans Fine Arts Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
2006
- Atypical Portraiture — Curated by Dan Tague. Barrister’s Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
2004
- Works in Progress — University of New Orleans Fine Arts Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
2001
- Senior Thesis Show — University of New Orleans Fine Arts Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
- Group Show — The Mermaid (New Orleans, LA)
2000
- Tiny Works for the Ages — Project (Wichita, KS)
- Relationship of Body and Self — Cooper Street Gallery (Memphis, TN)
1999
- Tiny Works Little Licks — Project (Wichita, KS)
1998
- No Dead Artists — Curated by Jonathan Ferrara. Positive Space (New Orleans, LA)
1995
- Group Show — Curated by Jody Crotts. Bicycle Gallery (Richmond, VA)
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/LECTURES:
- See.Me Year in Review 2013 Finalist.
- Bombay Artisan Series. 2013 First Place Winner.
- Artists Wanted. Finalist for Art Takes Miami, 2012.
- Juror’s Choice Second Place. Southern Open 2012. Juror Rene Barilleaux.
- Artists Wanted, Finalist, 2011 Year in Review.
- Recipient of a commission for public work in New Orleans from the Arts Council of New Orleans and Joan Mitchell Foundation, May 2008.
- Recipient of a Louisiana Cultural Economic Fund Grant, May 2008.
- Recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, April 2008.
- Panelist for FabricFashionFantasy – Space 301 (Mobile, AL). October 12th, 2007.
- Nominated for a 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award.
- Artist in Residence, July 2007, City of Innsbruck, Austria.
- Nominated for a 2007 Dedalus Foundation Fellowship.
Can find Alex here at http://www.alexpodesta.com/