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Alfonse Pagano

Eighty Four ( Rush to Relics )

Eighty Four ( Rush to Relics )

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Around Two-thousand sixteen I started a a series of work that focused on the American flag as a symbol for the destruction of American values and political norms. It was my first foray into the political in my work.i started bu actually distressing 4 X 6 cotton flags and arrange them Two-thousand sixteen I started a a series of work that focused on the American flag as a symbol for the destruction of American values and political norms.

Artwork Details

Artist:
Alfonse Pagano
Artist Gallery:
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Year Created:
2022
Dimensions:
11 × 14 in
Edition:
Original 1/1
Style:
Pagano compresses the American flag into a compact field of abrasion and recovery, with the red stripes dragged, scraped, and partially erased over a pale ground. The gouache is handled dry in places and wet in others, producing torn edges, thin veils, and dense vertical passages that give the surface a weathered, almost textile-like grain. The blue canton is reduced to a faint square with hand-drawn stars, shifting the flag from emblem to fragment and aligning the work with postwar flag reworkings by Jasper Johns and with the political urgency of protest-based appropriation.
Tags:
american flag,political art,gouache,distressed surface,red white blue,appropriation,assemblage,textural abstraction,contemporary protest

About Alfonse Pagano

Alfonse Pagano creates original artwork available to collect on Art Emerge, an AI-powered marketplace for artists and collectors.

Born in 1951 in Paterson, New Jersey, into a third-generation Italian American family. Paterson was gritty, vibrant, and full of contradictions—elements that continue to shape how He sees and make art. Raised by a single mother who saw his creative spark early, He was given freedom to explore. By fourteen, He knew art wasn’t a hobby—it was a path. Though He studied briefly at the School of Visual Arts, He is mostly self-taught. Alfonse learned by making, reading, and working with others—most memorably, Len Lye in the early ’70s. His energy and commitment left a mark. Alfonse has had many studios the first one was above Beacon Paints on the corner of Amsterdam and 78 Street.

Artist Statement

I began somewhere in the late 1960s, working with cardboard, photographs, and found images—early attempts to understand and organize my world, to hold a fragment of landscape, memory, and human presence as a visual object.. Even then, what mattered to me was not only what the object became, but the act of altering it: cutting, burning, layering, erasing, and rebuilding. The action itself carried as much weight as the final form.I have allways divided my time between painting and sculpture and the combining of the two.

Selected Highlights

  • All Politics Are Local, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Rituals and Identity, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
  • Dreads, WBGO Gallery, Newark, NJ
  • Dreads, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ
  • Dreads, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT

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