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Alan Disparte
Snow Dust,Snow Dust,
2007, Acrylic on Wood Panel, 60"x48"
HelioScope,Alan DisparteAlan Disparte, HelioScope,
2007, Acrylic on Panel, 36"x36"
Hooting Yard,Alan DisparteAlan Disparte, Hooting Yard,
2008, Graphite, Charcoal and Acrylic on Panel, 22''x18.5''
Milkroom,Alan DisparteAlan Disparte, Milkroom,
2008, Acrylic on wood panel, 60"x84"
© Alan Disparte
Thawn,Thawn,
2008, Acrylic on canvas stretched over wood panel, 42" x 72"
Milkroom,Alan DisparteAlan Disparte, Milkroom,
2008, Acrylic on wood panel, 60"x84"
© Alan Disparte
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> QUICK FACTS
LIVES IN:  
San Francisco, CA
WORKS IN:  
San Francisco, CA
WEBSITE:  
http://www.alandisparte.com
SCHOOLS:  
San Francisco Art Institute, 2007, MFA
REPRESENTING GALLERIES:  
David Cunningham Projects
> STATEMENT


Painting: The “sameness” of urban sprawl has created an insatiable craving in me for the authenticity of home. A nostalgic yearning may be seen in my paintings, as I use techniques to distress or imply history as a way of deliberately manufacturing a memory of my own making. Suspended organic shapes and symmetries found in the natural world and human anatomy create a weightless environment where familiar forms are seen in unfamiliar ways.  Unexpected combinations of color and structural motifs interact as I choose a path of reminiscence, navigating between what I recall as having once existed and that which has been lost in the fog of our mass-produced, mass-manipulated "truth."

 

Video, Sculpture: My work is a direct response to the subversion of reality in the media of the moment. I explore the increasingly fine line between innocence and depravity. My use of childlike objects and nostalgic color palette stands in sharp contrast to the subject matter, exposing the hidden angst that may lie beneath the otherwise seductive surface.

 

 

ALAN DISPARTE

EDUCATION:

San Francisco Art Institute

MFA, 2007

California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA

BFA, Applied Art and Design

University of Redlands,

Art, Redlands, CA

 

EXHIBITIONS:

2008 - Two-Person Show, Alan Disparte and Chris Ashley, David Cunningham   

             Projects, San Francisco, CA, Curator: David Cunningham

             5 from San Francisco, Group Exhibition, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla,      

            CA, Curator: Frances McCormack

            Taste, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, Guest Curator: Sarah Klein

            Shape, LoBot Gallery, Oakland, CA, Curator: Ross Campbell

            Biophilia, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Ashley Kalemjian   

2007-  Vernissage, MFA Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, CA


             Saatchi on-line Gallery, London, UK


             Mutato Grande, The Diego Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA


2006 - Stock, Swell Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Ross Campbell


             Terror, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA


             Continuing MFA show, The Diego Gallery, San Francisco, CA


2005 - Contact, Swell Gallery, SFAI - CCA San Francisco, CA


2001 - Scavengers and Seers, Arts on-line Gallery, San Francisco, CA


1999 -  Art Supermarket, Harvey Nichols, London, UK

 

VIDEO SCREENINGS:

2007-  American Heresy Collective, Roxie New College Film Center and The San   

            Francisco Art Institute, CA


2006 - Pathological Rhetoric, New Nothing Cinema, San Francisco, CA

            Curated by Rachael Manera


           SFAI Spring Video Salon, San Francisco, CA

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Victoria Reed, 5 From San Francisco, Review and Photos, Artweek, July 2008

Janice Kahn, Taste 2008, Review and Photos, SF Weekly.Com, April 18, 2008

Rachel Swan, Critic’s Choice: Shape, East Bay Express, February 20, 2008

DeWitt Cheng, Biophilia, Review and Photos, Art Business.com 2008

Andres Simone, Ivan Flugelman, Bestia on-line Magazine, Premier Issue, 2007


San Francisco Art Institute MFA Exhibition Catalog, May 2007 (Reproduction)

Jim Fisher, Scavengers and Seers, Review, Arts on-line Gallery, 2001

 

VISITING LECTURES:

2008- Beginning Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, ACE Program

           Advanced Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, ACE Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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> EXHIBITED AT THESE VENUES
Climate Theater
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Root Division
> BLOG
my blog
 
> EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Past Exhibitions and Events
Oct, 2008 Chance Operations
Climate Theater
 
Oct, 2008 Root Division's 7th Annual Art Auction
Root Division
 
Oct, 2008 Root Division's 7th Annual Art Auction Show
Root Division
 
May, 2008 5 from San Francisco
R.B. Stevenson gallery
 
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