Alex Arcadia

Alex Arcadia

Alex Arcadia (born January 5, 1971) is a contemporary American painter, sculptor and conceptual artist whose work is compared to Jeff Koons, Hans Bellmer, Andy Warhol and Constantin Brancusi.

His self-titled cosmology ‘Arcadia’ provides the framework for his large scale paintings, sculptures and installations, which engage audiences as both post-Warholian pop, and deviant in the readymade tradition of Marcel Duchamp. Arcadia is best known for his SuperGymnast image, an erotically charged goddess and re-occurring central figure of power in his work. Emerging in the mid-nineties by the tens of thousands, the SuperGymnast was planted like seeds throughout the streets of New York City as a tag, quickly making the icon synonymous with the identity of the artist.

Arcadia debuted the SuperGymnast as sculpture atop his epic "Temple of Fame" (1999-2000). Artifacts from "Temple of Fame" were featured in his first New York solo exhibition at Stefan Stux Gallery in 2001 entitled SuperGymnast, reviewed in the "New York Times". [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E2D81230F935A25751C0A9679C8B63]

Arcadia plays a main role in acclaimed filmmaker Ondi Timoner's forthcoming 2007 documentary "The Bubble", a film centered around the infamous millennial art and performance event called "Quiet", which was produced by Arcadia's friend, collector, and internet pioneer Josh Harris, and took place in downtown Manhattan (1999-2000) during the last days of the dot-com boom.

Alex Arcadia continues to define a new mythology, a vision he calls the BrightShinyFuture.

He lives and works in New York City.


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