For Los Angeles born artist Alex Israel, 'Hollywood is not simply a town, but also an attitude and a way of moving and being.' His series of
Alex Israel's work reflects his deep connection to Los Angeles, where Hollywood serves as both a cultural backdrop and a lived philosophy. Rendered in acrylic on stucco on panel, this piece captures the sleek, sun-drenched aesthetic of Southern California, blending the boundaries between fine art and the cinematic world of image-making. Israel transforms everyday icons of LA culture into meditative surfaces that evoke the glamour, artifice, and underlying stillness of life in the entertainment capital.
- Medium
- acrylic on stucco on panel
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- Auction House · Phillips
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Contemporary Art Evening Sale
October 15, 2014
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Alex Israel makes images, objects and experiences that balance an elevated, almost debased rush of visual pleasure with a scalpel-like intellectual sharpness. Like Los Angeles, the artist’s home and—in many ways his most fertile medium—his works find their depth in the seamlessness of their surface and the artifices that construct them and which they in turn deconstruct. It is clear that the artist, one of the most important voices of his generation, is able to instrumentalize our star-filled and wide-eyed Hollywood dreams and collective memories within a specific lineage of post-war American painting and conceptual, intellectually driven art making.
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