Alex Gross

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Alex Gross
Born
Alex Gross

(1968-08-30) August 30, 1968 (age 55)
Art Center College of Design
Known forPainter
Websitewww.alexgross.com

Alex Gross (born August 30, 1968) is a visual artist currently working in

Los Angeles, California. He specializes in oil paintings on canvas whose themes include globalization, commerce, beauty, dark mayhem, and the passage of time.[1]

Gross graduated in 1990 from

Pop Surrealism movement.[citation needed
]

In 2000, Gross received a fellowship from the Japan Foundation.[2] He spent two months traveling throughout Japan, researching and collecting a variety of Japanese Fine and Commercial art, as research for his own artwork. Part of his collection was compiled and published by Taschen under the title Japanese Beauties in 2004.[3]

In 2006, Chronicle books published The Art of Alex Gross,

Los Angeles Magazine,[7] Communication Arts, Taiwanese magazine XFUNS,[8] and the Los Angeles Times.[9]

In August, 2007. California State Fullerton's Grand Central Art Center hosted a retrospective museum show featuring an array of Gross' work from different periods throughout his career.[10] In a review of the museum show, the Orange County Register wrote that "Gross' work is highly representational and, unlike many of his contemporaries lumped into the so-called low-brow art niche, he is an excellent draftsman. He also demands that one know a bit about world culture, history and politics and have the wit to appreciate his sense of irony."[11]

Gross' work was also featured in the Laguna Art Museum's exhibition and catalogue "In the land of Retinal Delights", in July, 2008.

After Dark, the national bestseller by Haruki Murakami,[13] published by Vintage Books
.

References

  1. ISBN 0-8118-5534-1
    , Chronicle Books
  2. ^ http://www.pixelsurgeon.com/interviews/interview.php?id=130
  3. ISBN 978-3-8228-3123-6
  4. ISBN 0-8118-5534-1
    , Chronicle Books
  5. ISBN 0-86719-618-1
  6. ^ -Juxtapoz #67, August 2006 and Juxtapoz #27, July/August 2000
  7. ^ -Los Angeles Magazine, April 2007, page 100 Shelf Life
  8. ^ -XFUNS issue #39, December 2008
  9. ^ -Los Angeles Times, Art section, review of the "Raising the Brow" show at Earl McGrath Gallery, January 30th, 2004
  10. ^ "Alex Gross Retrospective, Bruce Linn - Better Angels and Worse Demons and Local Motion".
  11. ^ http://www.ocregister.com/entertainment/gross-one-japanese-1795035-painting-culture
  12. ISBN 978-0-940872-34-9
  13. ISBN 978-0-307-27873-9

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