Alexis Duque
LOS DUEÑOS DE NADA:
Portraits of Chance Encounters
ON View: SeptEmber 13, 2024 - Octover 26, 2024
Los Dueños de Nada (The Owners of Nothing): Portraits of Chance Encounters, a solo exhibition of Alexis Duque’s new paintings and works on paper that interweaves personal history with broader socio-political themes. Duque is a Colombian artist based in New York City. In his new work, Duques uses figurative representational techniques to bring into relief the lives of those impacted by migration, class, and ethnic distinctions and who may otherwise be seen as residing on the periphery of society.
The exhibition’s title is a nod to “Los Nadies” (“The Nobodies”), a poem by Uruguayan historian and novelist Eduardo Galeano decrying the invisibility cast upon the millions of dispossessed people around the world. Duque His paintings, drawings, and sculptures of cities and towns illuminate the widespread effects of globalization, overpopulation, and urbanization’s resulting chaos.
About Alexis Duque
Alexis Duque is a NYC-based artist born in Medellin, Colombia. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Antioquia, Medellin and has exhibited in numerous venues including El Museo del Barrio, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Praxis International Gallery in NY; Schiltkamp Gallery at Clark University, Worcester, MA; Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, UT; The Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, Midland, MI; and Galleri Oxholm in Copenhagen, Denmark. Among the publications in which Duque’s work has been featured are “Imagine Architecture: Artistic Visions of The Urban Realm” by Gestalten, WhiteHot Magazine, Beautiful Decay, and New American Paintings.
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