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Alfonse Pagano

After Relic ( Rush to Relics )

After Relic ( Rush to Relics )

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"After Relic" This isn’t a symbol of pride. It’s what’s left after—an object carrying damage, weight, and the sense that something once held together is coming apart.

Artwork Details

Artist:
Alfonse Pagano
Artist Gallery:
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Year Created:
2017
Dimensions:
24 × 42 in
Edition:
Original 1/1
Style:
The eye meets a tall, vertical form built from torn bands and star fields, suspended against a broad field of untouched paper. Pagano handles graphite as both drawing and abrasion: the dark passages are rubbed, dragged, and scored, while the surrounding white space intensifies the sense of rupture and air. The composition is centered but unstable, with the ragged strips cascading downward in a structure that recalls assemblage, monochrome drawing, and the broken-emblem imagery of postwar political art. It sits in dialogue with the material urgencies of Robert Rauschenberg, Arte Povera, and the scorched lyricism of works that treat the flag not as icon but as burdened object.
Tags:
graphite,assemblage,american flag,political symbolism,monochrome,torn surface,ruin,postwar drawing,materiality

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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