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TW Fine Art is pleased to present Sky's The Limit, a group exhibition featuring paintings and illustrations by Alberto Pazzi, Roger Allan Cleaves, Carles Garcia O'Dowd, and Spencer Chalk-Levy. This exhibition explores the unique cosmogony of each of the four artists as they build new, idiosyncratic worlds through their work. The exhibition highlights the influences that inform the artists' approach to world-building and storytelling, from their personal lives and past experiences to their creative inspirations. Each of the artists in the show approaches the idea of world-building with their own perspective, process, and aesthetic.
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Alberto Pazzi
Alberto Pazzi (born 1990, León, Mexico) is a New York-based painter and illustrator whose work has been featured in Vogue, Elephant Mag, and Creative Boom, to name a few.
Frequently using acrylic paint and collage as his primary vehicle of expression and inspired by human connections, romantic delusions and a signature pink palette, his highly stylized and bizarre paintings are rendered in a flat style that take cues from minimalism, and cartoon-reminiscent painted lines, along with compositions of the female body, animals and other creatures. His work convey an impressive amount of expressions and emotions moving from humor, mystery, sex, beauty and desire, all the way to emptiness, frustration, longing and love. In a way, these depictions develop into his very own self-portraits and often combine bright colors and humor.
Pazzi’s most recent solo show was called “There are no edges, only places where things meet,” which showcases the very depth of experience he captures with such a simple series of lines and colors.
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Roger Allan Cleaves
Roger Allan Cleaves was born in Memphis, Tennessee where he currently lives and works. He received his Bachelors of Fine Art at the University of Memphis. During his tenure at the University of Memphis he was one of fifteen undergraduate students selected from across the country to participate in the Yale Norfolk Summer program for the arts. Cleaves went on to study at the University of Wisconsin- Madison where he received his MFA.
Cleaves latest works feature a self-written fictional story titled The Land of the Forget Me Nots. The story investigates social themes, fantasy, and epic adventures through the lens of Afrofuturism. Symbolism, abstract figuration, and distortion are a few of the tools he uses in his creative process. Often times Cleaves uses motifs from Modernism that have been borrowed from African cultures to explore the complex relationship between black artist and the contemporary art institution. The different bodies of work are generally moments from the storyline that concentrate on the characters' interactions inside the created world. The created world - Forget Me Nots Land- is a multiverse and an amalgamation of sociological ideas fused with contemporary storytelling.
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Roger Allan Cleaves
The Garden, 2017Oil on canvas
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Roger Allan Cleaves
Destiny’s Blade, 2017Oil on canvas
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Carles GarcÃa O'Dowd
Carles García O’Dowd (b. 1988) is a New York-based, Spanish-Irish artist originally from Palma, Mallorca. His career has been shaped by activism, counter-culture, pop music, and cartoons. Employing drawing and printmaking as his primary creative modes, García O’Dowd’s art explores the contradictions inherent within neoliberal societies through an imaginary pop cosmogony.
He has worked with the activist group, "The Beehive Collective,” in Maine in the United States and the outsider art group, "Le Dernier Cri,” in Marseille, France. García O’Dowd has lived and worked in Barcelona, Hamburg, Mexico, France, London and throughout the U.S. He has also toured the world giving storytelling presentations with "Projecte Úter,” a collaborative drawing of massive scale about the right to abortion in Spain. Carles recently received his MFA on Fulbright scholarship at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
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No es tu Media Naranja, es tu Exprimidor Series
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Metamorphosis Series
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Goddess Series
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The Neony Series
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Gaslite Series
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Spencer Chalk-Levy
Spencer Chalk-Levy was born and raised in New York City and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan then continued studies from 2014-2020 at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna. He currently works in Vienna.
In his work he delves into historical narratives, whether based on classical literature, lore, art history and connecting them with more personal themes. The inspiration for his playful and bizarre figures, often presented in dramatic narratives, are mainly drawn from real life observations, following the inspirational sources of artists he admires most. With an acute sensitivity, he taps into traditional techniques and the pictorial language of historical art genres, while injecting contemporary elements through blending it with the colorful and detailed aesthetic. The emotional resonance of his staged scenes and characters trigger the viewer to dive into the current state of the narrative, instinctively approaching the viewer’s active powers of the imagination to continue on the sequel of the scenery. Colliding traditional genres, illustration and subject matter, Chalk-Levy has developed a unique style with a distinctive design. In his recent experiments in the realm of digitally woven tapestries and Styrofoam sculptures, he explores how his contemporary re-interpretations and the use of advanced production processes, impact their meaning and tradition.
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Battalion 102 Series
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Sky's The Limit: A four person group exhibition highlighting world building
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