Diaspora Vibe Gallery Presents Off The Wall: Experimental Lab Series Paint as an Object Alejandro Contreras
MIAMI – Diaspora Vibe presents Paint as an Object by Alejandro Contreras.
Using layers of dry paint Contreras reconfigures and creates new ways of how paint is used as an object. How it is applied, plays with many visual elements. Contreras focuses on paint as an object and on the process to develop his body of work.
His paintings are sculptural, bright and textured involving complex layers. Alejandro Contreras is a senior at New World School of the Arts pursuing a BFA in Electronic Intermedia Art.
He has exhibited his work at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2005 and this summer participated in a six week residency in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Off the Wall/ Experimental Lab Series is a newly formed two-week interdisciplinary residency in which artists present time-based, out-of-the-box work including performance, video/film screenings, poetry reading, research, sound art, music and workshops.
A component of the program includes interacting with the diverse communities of Miami-Dade and engaging the audience in nontraditional ways. Artists are encouraged to activate the neglected space of the gallery and transform the space into a multi-sensory lab.
“Off the Wall” provides a forum for 4-D/ new genres art-making and places equal emphasis on the value of the creative process, as well as the finished product.
