Random Parts is very pleased to present its inaugural show, Breaking News, new
works by interdisciplinary artist Dominic Alleluia with collaborative
videos by Susan Alleluia.
For over
5 decades Dominic Alleluia has been creating a body of work that includes
painting, sculpture, drawing, assemblage, collage, installation, mail art,
dance, music, sound poetry, and video / film with the latter being a
collaboration with Susan Alleluia. Alleluia describes his own art
practice as a "commitment to total epic art making".
In the
context of his "Gesamtkunstwerk" commitment to his work, we come to his
current exhibition, Breaking News, where he continues his ongoing
cultural critique
of a society bombarded by mass advertisements which glorifies material wealth
above the human condition. In Breaking News, Alleluia mines the ports of
Asia for detritus materials such as advertisements, newsprint, headlines,
fashion magazines, travel ephemeral, etc, that he then cuts, chops, tears,
paste, destroys, and ultimately forms into exquisitely poignant collages,
paintings and assemblages. In what can be seen as a helter skelter tableaux,
Alleluia is at ease working and combining different styles which includes
figurative, abstract expressionistic, and formalist geometric. Demanding and
rigorous, Alleluia's current works does not shy away from the "breaking news" such
as historically relevant Tiananmen Square uprising, to more current events such
as the Pussy Riot imprisonment and the Edward Snowden mass surveillance
scandal.
Dominic
Alleluia was born in New York City in 1937. After traveling the world
with the US Navy, he settled in San Francisco in 1958 where he currently lives
and works with his wife and collaborator, Susan Alleluia. He has studied
at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Art Academy, and the
University of California Extension in San Francisco under Fred Reichman and
Sidney Gordin. Selected solo exhibitions include A440 Gallery, Southern
Exposure both in San Francisco, CA, Window Installation at Franklin Furnace, NYC and
La Positas College in Livermore, CA.
Selected group exhibitions include the Bayennale, Oakland, CA, Diego
Rivera
Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute, Paule Anglim Gallery,
Intersection
for the Arts, and ATA Gallery all in San Francisco. His sound
works have
been exhibited in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. He has participated in
Mail Art
exhibitions worldwide since 1977. He was the co-producer of the West
Coast
International Sound Poetry Festival at la Mamelle and was part of the
"Alternative Spaces Retrospective" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art.
With dancer-choreographer Susan Alleluia, he has collaborated on
performances,
films, videos, and installations in various San Francisco and Los
Angeles
theaters and art spaces. His interventions/ performances on
institutional critique in front of museums and in art fairs are
legendary.
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