As an installation artist with a technology background, my interest in how internet influenced information impacts our lives has been the primary subject of my studio practice since 2004.
The relevancy of this focus has become more acute as we struggle with its assimilation as a dominant influence in our culture and society, upending traditional daily practices and forcing us into an infinite cycle of adaptation as it evolves at a rate greater than our capacity to keep up.
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In my studio this evolution materializes as a cyclical process serving as a literal thread connecting past, present and future work reflecting the struggle to reconcile the appropriation of norms we have historically relied upon to inform and order our lives.
At its core, questions of balance and place arise in the form of simple equations such as:
Technology intelligence is <, >, or = to Nature, Culture, Beauty, Society, etc.
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The results of these explorations manifest in works that represent a cautious equilibrium between how we experience the physical world and how it is presented through the delivery of internet influenced information that may or may not be rooted in facts, truth or reality.
In its simplest form this unique perspective might be viewed as an exploration of a kind of technology driven “sublime” in art, a quality that inspires awe, wonder, and our very human desire to capture the terrifying beauty of its power.
EDUCATION
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2004-2006 MFA Trans-disciplinary Visual Studies
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
1972-1976 BFA 3D Studies, Hartford Art School, West
Hartford, CT US
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EXHIBITIONS
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2024 NYFA Benefit Invitational Auction (New
York Foundation for the Arts), NYC, NY
March META, SUNY CGCC, Foundation Gallery,
Hudson, NY
2023 Group Exhibition, Guild of Berkshire
Artists, Pittsfield, MA
2023 Group Exhibition, Sandisfield Art Center,
Sandisfield, MA
2023 Yonder Crush; Group Exhibition; Satchel
Projects; Chelsea NYC, NY
2022 Finding A Memory; Group Exhibition,
Piano Craft Gallery; Boston, MA
2022 MOSAIC; Two-person exhibit; Guild of
Berkshire Artists; Pittsfield, MA
2021 FREE; Group Exhibition, Outlander Gallery;
Jersey City, NJ
2021 Group Show; Mize Gallery, St. Petersburg,
Florida
2020 Artists Supporting Artists, 2020 NYFA
Benefit Invitational (New York Foundation for the Arts), NYC, NY
2012 Queens Art X, What If Artists Remade US
Economy, Queens, NY
2011 Faculty Exhibition, SUNY Columbia Greene
Campus, Hudson, New York
2010 InFUSION Project Space, Memorial Sloan
Kettering, Brooklyn, NY,
2010 Koussevitsky Gallery; Berkshire Community
College, Pittsfield, MA
2010 Splice; Group Exhibition, Distillery Projects;
Jersey City, NJ
2009 Brooklyn Art:Work, Group Exhibition, BRIC
Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 In/formation, Group Exhibition, BRIC
Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Trellis; Group Exhibition, Rupert Ravens
Contemporary, Newark, NJ
2008 A Passion for Pixels; Group Exhibition, Islip
Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2008 Hand Drawn, Group Exhibition, Storefront
Artists Project, Pittsfield, MA
2007 Information Anxiety,The Daniel Arts
Center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock,
Great Barrington, MA
2007 Ephemera, Group Exhibition, Lascano
Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA
2006 Triskadekamaniacal, Group Exhibition, Axis
Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2006 Gender, Group Exhibition, Haddad
Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2005 Obsession, Group Exhibition, Haddad
Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2004 Metro Show, Group Exhibition, City
Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2004 National Fall Open, Group Exhibition,
Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
WORK/TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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2011-2018 PRACTivate Ltd, Founder/Director, Social Enterprise development training for youth at risk and ex-offenders (New York/London)
2006-2010 Adjunct Faculty; Parsons School of Design,The New School; Design Management Program; NYC, NY
2005-2006 Sculpture 1, Montclair State University,
Montclair, NJ
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FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
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2013-2020 Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts, London, UK
2009 Brooklyn Art:Work, Named one of 12 emerging Brooklyn artists to watch, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCIES
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2004 School of Visual Arts Summer Residency
2022-2023 School of Visual Arts Online Global Residency
SOCIAL JUSTICE VOLUNTEER
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2010-2018 Mentor; Youth at Risk/Incarcerated Youth; New York, US.; London, UK
2017-2020 KOESTLER TRUST ART MENTOR; incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists; London, UK
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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@lesliealfin
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