Alexander Felton's sculptures can be conceptual, minimal, and surreal. His work invokes the formalistic weight of art history within the emotional context of the everyday. Building on his own, private iconography, the work is often charged with an oblique humor that questions the prevailing language of visual signifiers within his own practice, and its unease with functionality in the greater world.
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The Classics (2007). Intellectualism as mute, facile, and hopelessly reverential. Also a tradition that's fast disappearing, severely unappreciated, and worthy of safeguard. Matboard, balsa wood. 15.5" x 11.5" x 7". $1100. Add to cart
Academy Award Winner (2008). The perverse seriousness of celebrity and its ceremonies is rendered here in the cheapest and most banal of materials and practice. Papier mache, spray paint, acrylic. Edition of three. 13 3/8" x 3 3/8". $250.
