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November 1, 2007 - December 22, 2007
Reception: November 1, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Jose Alvarez
The Kitchen
512 W 19th StA painter, performance artist, and video maker, Jose Alvarez is known for his charismatic performances in which he “channeled” the 2,000-year old spirit of the shaman Carlos, in front of live audiences and in media broadcasts across the globe in the United States, China, Australia, Europe, and South America. For his first New York solo exhibition, the Ft. Lauderdale-based artist presents a powerful combination of newly created videos, paintings, works-on-paper, and photographs that continue his exploration of the complex intersection of mysticism, science, spirituality, and the construction of belief systems. Drawing on his long-standing dialogue with James Randi, the famous magician and renowned challenger of paranormal phenomena, and on his own recent visits to Houston’s NASA Space Flight Center and to Australia’s Parkes Observatory telescope, Alvarez explores how the unfolding of psychic hoaxes, the perceived supernatural energy of charmed objects, and the mysterious quests underlying space exploration all connect to the strong human desire for knowledge and transformation. Alvarez was born in 1968 in New York and attended the School of Visual Arts. He participated in the 2002 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has also exhibited at Deitch Projects, New York; Western Projects, Los Angeles; Ratio3, San Francisco; Ingalls & Associates, Miami; and the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale.
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