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Alfonse Pagano

Study From Nine ( Rush to Relics )

Study From Nine ( Rush to Relics )

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This artwork part of an ongoing series " Rush To Relics " consists of two panels, each depicting a grouping of American flags rendered in a monochromatic palette. The flags are portrayed in a distressed and tattered state, conveying a sense of wear and deterioration. The stars and stripes, though recognizable, are fragmented and intermixed, creating a chaotic, almost ghostly effect. The use of shading and varying tones of grey adds depth and texture, emphasizing the frayed and weathered appearance of the fabric. The overall composition evokes a powerful sense of decay and transformation.

Artwork Details

Artist:
Alfonse Pagano
Artist Gallery:
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Year Created:
2021
Dimensions:
14 × 36 in
Edition:
Original 1/1
Style:
Pagano presents the flags as a vertical field of fractured blacks, grays, and paper whites, so the eye lands first on the ragged silhouettes at the top and then moves down into the torn streamers below. The graphite handling alternates dense shading with scratchy, feathery abrasion, giving the surface the feel of worn cloth and scuffed memory at once. The two-panel format creates a measured echo rather than symmetry, placing the work in conversation with postwar assemblage, monochrome drawing, and the politically charged flag works of Jasper Johns and Dread Scott while remaining firmly rooted in Pagano’s own language of erosion and repair.
Tags:
graphite,monochrome,american flag,political imagery,two-panel,abstraction,distressed surface,postminimalism,memory,erosion

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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