WHERE: 169 Bowery New York, NY 10002 between Delancy and Broome
Join us for the closing reception of Joy Ride and a special performance by Scott Alger. Joy Ride is a group exhibition in collaboration with Bicycle Film Festival and Anonymous Gallery, curated by Brendt Barbur, Joseph Ian Henrikson, and Tanya Arakawa Rosenstein. Scott"s performance will be conducted along side the works of Kenny Scharf, Jonas Mekas, Martha Cooper, Agathe Snow, Kelsey Brookes, Cheryl Dunn, Kenzo Minami, James Jean, Scott Campbell, Mike Giant, Julia Chiang
Scott Alger is a member of a group of leading artists, graffiti artists, fashion designers and photographers based in New York City and London. He holds a Masters from New York University in critical theory. His work has recently been featured in the fashion/style magazine Surface and awarded the magazine's Avant Guardian Award. Most recently he took part in Ray Ban's Colorize campaign, and Phillips Du Pury's, "Friends in Deed". Scott brings a street edge to fine art and fashion photography, using a timed slow exposure, he 'paints' or 'tags' with colour light to create a dramatic effect.
He combines performance and photo-lab techniques to create images that are at once iconic, contemporary, and visually captivating. Alger records moments both candid and designed, usually in hyper-real social moments combined with staged scenes.
His finished unique photoplastic prints, in addition to their immediate documentary value, exist as magnificent objects, glowing and blurred, intricate and masterfully developed. Alger straddles the line between performance and painterly-photographic process, with captivating ambiguity.
www.scottalger.com
