BRANDON DUDLEY

Painting | 2021

Through his portraits, Dudley strives to construct empowering representations of black culture and black history.  His art becomes a source of education, as he shows appreciation for a culture that is negatively perceived. 

Size

36 x 24 inches - Unframed

Materials

Oil on canvas

Authenticity

Hand signed by the artist

Ben Alper

Photography | 2019

Ben Alper's series "Conflation" is a series of digital composites that originate from multiple images of the same object or space. Depicting marginal or derelict urban sites, the pictures represent a patchwork of decisions made behind the camera. While these pieces upend traditional notions of the singular photographic trace, they nevertheless constitute a series of imprints.  They attempt to synthesize redundant, often ordinary photographs into something transcendent.  By layering, erasing and cutting away to reveal information below, these hybrid works vacillate between presence and absence and construction and deconstruction. Stepping away from the medium’s subtractive character, the pieces in “Conflation” turn toward an additive approach to image-construction.  However, with each accumulated layer, a new kind of collapse occurs.  The result is a formal and conceptual flattening, a tangle of images still tethered to their source, but fundamentally changed.

Size

24 x 16" - Unframed 

Materials

Pigment print

Edition of 3

Authenticity

Signed by the artist

Ben Alper

Photography | 2019

Ben Alper's series "Conflation" is a series of digital composites that originate from multiple images of the same object or space. Depicting marginal or derelict urban sites, the pictures represent a patchwork of decisions made behind the camera. While these pieces upend traditional notions of the singular photographic trace, they nevertheless constitute a series of imprints.  They attempt to synthesize redundant, often ordinary photographs into something transcendent.  By layering, erasing and cutting away to reveal information below, these hybrid works vacillate between presence and absence and construction and deconstruction. Stepping away from the medium’s subtractive character, the pieces in “Conflation” turn toward an additive approach to image-construction.  However, with each accumulated layer, a new kind of collapse occurs.  The result is a formal and conceptual flattening, a tangle of images still tethered to their source, but fundamentally changed.

Size

24 x 16" - Unframed 

Materials

Pigment print

Edition of 3

Authenticity

Signed by the artist

Ben Alper

Photography | 2020

Ben Alper's series "Conflation" is a series of digital composites that originate from multiple images of the same object or space. Depicting marginal or derelict urban sites, the pictures represent a patchwork of decisions made behind the camera. While these pieces upend traditional notions of the singular photographic trace, they nevertheless constitute a series of imprints.  They attempt to synthesize redundant, often ordinary photographs into something transcendent.  By layering, erasing and cutting away to reveal information below, these hybrid works vacillate between presence and absence and construction and deconstruction. Stepping away from the medium’s subtractive character, the pieces in “Conflation” turn toward an additive approach to image-construction.  However, with each accumulated layer, a new kind of collapse occurs.  The result is a formal and conceptual flattening, a tangle of images still tethered to their source, but fundamentally changed.

Size

24 x 16" - Unframed 

Materials

Pigment print

Edition of 3

Authenticity

Signed by the artist