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Alex White Mazzarella

Alex White Mazzarella was born in Boston, USA in 1979. He graduated university with degrees in economics and city planning before setting off to Barcelona Spain and consequently Hong Kong China where he worked as an urban planner. Over this period, the cultures and urban identities of European and Asian cities inspired an artistic vision of urban expression. His talent and creativity were noted at a young age and his world travels/observations have been a constant force in shaping his life. Street art and specifically Kirchner, Basquiat, Pollock, and Tapies were instrumental in his turning towards the arts. Nurtured by Larry Poons, Phillip Sherrod and Hugo Bastidas of the Art Students League, he has been exhibiting his work in New York since early 2009 after being discovered by Richard Temperio of the Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg Brooklyn. His work is in private collections in the United States, France, Denmark, Norway and India and in the permanent collection of CoCCA, the Coimbatore Centre for Contemporary Art. He is the founder of the Artefacting collective and has collaborated with Anish Kapoor. La Mazza: the paintings of Alex White-Mazzarella… . . A reality constructed by the artist’s vision of our current times … recreating our social landscape to one that exhibits our velocity of life … color as an attractor … the new relationship … distraction as attraction … fading room for existence … disconnect to reconnect. New York City is the current laboratory where these stimuli are being observed and translated. And street expressionism, known largely as street art and graffiti, is today’s cave paintings… an exhibition of human abstraction and the subconscious, this inclination to explore and express the void and its brilliance continues. La Mazza builds upon this contemporary form of expressionism, expressing the technology and commercialization induced reality we now experience and live. Blasting off from planet earth we orbit and come back on a different ship as we land on La Mazza. From the Artist: I create paintings in order to express and visualize states of minds that belong to my genes as well as the society that programs me. Working intuitively and physically through expression, and mentally through the construction of narratives, my paintings are intended to bridge instinctive and contextual realities. They are observations of the social systems that deliver us our individual destinations. Going through life, I believe I am more than anything an observer… a student of the human on an individual and societal level where experience is my classroom and perspective my output. Sensitization allows for a bending and becoming of the place and energy in which I exist. Consequently, my work is a reflection of both visions and sensations.