ALEX SEWELL
Alex Sewell (b. 1989, Salem, Massachusetts) completed his BFA at MassArt inBoston, Massachusetts, and joined the studios of artists Jeff Koons and Bjarne Melgaard as an assistant sculptor/painter. Sewell’s work is characterised by his use of symbols borrowed from popular, consumer and gaming cultures and his mastery of oil technique. His ability to mimic pixel with oil, or wood grain with fabric weave, sets the stage for a switch between real, imaginative, and digital representations.
Sewell has had his work featured alongside Jim Dine’s poetry at Hauser &Wirth, New York. He has exhibited at Blake & Vargas, Berlin; Big PicturesLos Angeles, California, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts, the Monmouth Museum, Middletown,New Jersey, Freight + Volume, New York; Five Myles, Brooklyn, New York, and Spring/Break in New York City. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Hyperallergic, and Artnet, and can be found in the permanent collections of Enterprise Bank, Lowell, Massachusetts, MassachusettsCollege of Art and Design, Boston, and the National Gallery of Bermuda, among others.
Sewell lives and works in New York.
Text courtesy TOTAH.
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