Carl D'Alvia
- 2012-2013
- Visual Arts
- Henry W. and Marian T. Mitchell Rome Prize
Carl D'Alvia, Happyday, 2012.
Resin and paint, 53x48x30 cm.
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Carl D'Alvia, Plank, 2013.
Plastilina and wood. 125x79x30 cm.
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Carl D'Alvia, Plank (detail), 2013.
Plastilina and wood. 125x79x30 cm.
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Carl D'Alvia, Plank (detail), 2013.
Plastilina and wood. 125x79x30 cm.
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Carl D'Alvia, Puff, 2013.
Plastilina.
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Carl D'Alvia, Studio Wall, 2013.
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Installation view “The Idea of Realism,” AAR Gallery.
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Opening “The Idea of Realism,” AAR Gallery.
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Installation view, Nuova Consonanza, Villa Aurelia.
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Installation view, Nuova Consonanza, Villa Aurelia.
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Installation view, Nuova Consonanza, Villa Aurelia.
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Carl D'Alvia, Bass Garden, 2013.
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Carl D'Alvia, Untitled, 2013.
Mixed media (earth, grass). 169 x 168 x 56 cm.
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Carl D'Alvia works in a sculptural idiom that is decidedly hyper-visual and artisanal as well as extreme and absurd. He has developed proprietary sculptural processes that co-opt existing means of traditional and industrial production to realize works which encapsulate such seemingly antithetical themes as minimal/baroque, industrial/handmade, comic/tragic, progress/destruction and attraction/repulsion.
D’Alvia’s work has appeared at various venues in the United States and Europe including Mulherin+Pollard, Derek Eller Gallery, Gering & Lopez, Feature Inc. and White Columns in New York, The Flat/Massimo Carasi (Milan), Biagiotti Progetto Arte ( Florence) and G-Module (Paris) in Europe. Reviews of his work have appeared in Artforum, Flash Art, The New York Times, The Boston Globe among others.