New website/blog!

I have a new website/blog, which can be found at aliaschman.com. All new work will be posted there, and no longer at this blog.

New Papercuts

Balloons

I'm submitting a couple of designs for NYC Dot / Urban Art Program's Jersey Barrier project (2 public art proposals in one week! not to mention more proposals due next week). I'm actually quite proud of this one - I might make it into a painting.

 

 

Mural for Mateo

Last October I painted this mural (with much help from Andrzej Nowicki) in my friends Kate and Stephen's Jackson Heights apartment, in the nursery for their then-still-a-foetus baby boy Mateo (now almost 4 months old). I finally got around to taking pictures, here they are!

P.S. If anyone wants a mural painted in their house/apartment, children's or otherwise, I could use the work!

'Lest Our Remains Be Scattered Across The Surface Of The Whole Earth'

I made this site-specific installation for Flux Flactory's inaugural show 'Housebroken' in their new building, which included over a hundred installations and performances. I collaborated with architect Eckart Graeve on some compositional aspects and lighting. Despite having to work in a freezing cold stairwell while all the other artists were cozying up in the rest of the building that was actually heated, and traveling almost an hour there and back every day, this was actually a pretty rewarding project. Well, at least in that I made something that I'm proud of and that I think was successful in achieving what I set out to do, but not very rewarding in terms of other people's opinions - at the opening I witnessed many drunken fools staggering down the stairs with nary a glance to my hard work.

Joann Kim wrote a really good review of the show, with some very insightful comments about my work. Read it here.

Marginalia

This is a piece I made for a show titled 'Marginalia' last September at MTS Gallery in Anchorage, Alaska. The show was part of the ongoing Le Roman du Lievre project by artist Jimmy Riordan. The show was co-curated by Leslie Rosa-Stumpf, who also curates the Parlour series in which my work was shown last March.

'The End is Like the Beginning' at Cinders

I made these three boxes for 'The End is Like the Beginning', a silent auction at Cinders on December 29.

Minotaur at Desert Island

I hauled my Minotaur from the Wassaic Project last summer out of storage, and installed it, with some changes, as a winter window display at the wonderful Desert Island Comics on Metropolitan Ave in Williamsburg in December. It's still up, though I'm not sure for how much longer.

Brooklyn Fire Proof Mural

I've been really terrible at updating this blog, and have a bunch of projects to post. Let's start with the mural I painted at Brooklyn Fire Proof in Bushwick last August-October (yes it really did take that long, scheduled around family visits and an awful minimum wage job with terrible hours). Its in the alleyway leading up to the bar/cafe, Brooklyn Fire Proof East, in the building where my studio is located.

The Endless Disappearance of Everything - Film by Nathan Punwar

Here's a link to a short documentary about my work, specifically the mural on India Street, made by Nathan Punwar. Each of us 6 mural artists was assigned a filmmaker, selected via an open call by Moviehouse, and the 6 films (How the Mural Got Made) were screened on September 8th at the mural site (see pics here).

I really love the film, even though its always a little embarrassing to hear myself speak, especially about my work. Its wonderful how he made all my little characters come to life. The visual collage element is really cool.