Open Air: Artist Talk with Patrick Alston

Open Air is a monthly series of intimate conversations with Black artists across the globe, hosted by the Gantt. November's iteration of Open Air features Patrick Alston. His work reflects upon spirituality, socio-politics, identity, language, and the psychology of color.

Post-Traumatism: In Search of Freedom showcases intense abstract works from Alston and will be on view at the Gantt, November 10, 2023, through May 12, 2024.

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Join us in person for this Open Air as we broadcast live from the Gantt. For our remote viewers, this program will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.

Patrick Alston is an American painter whose practice focuses on gesture and materiality. Through abstraction, Patrick Alston's work reflects upon spirituality, socio-politics, identity, language, and the psychology of color. His re-contextualized subjects, rich and complex compositions, are expressed through gestural mark-making and the combining of various materials and techniques.

Alston grew up in the South Bronx of New York City and attended Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, studying Art and Psychology. He had various solo and group exhibitions throughout the US, and debuted with Bode Projects in various shows in Berlin, DE. He recently held solo shows in Accra, GH, and London, UK.

Learn more about Patrick at patrickalston.com.

Dexter Wimberly is an American curator based in Japan who has organized exhibitions in galleries and institutions around the world including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, The Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, KOKI Arts in Tokyo, Bode Projects in Berlin, and The Third Line in Dubai. His exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications including The New York Times and Artforum; and have received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and The Kinkade Family Foundation. Wimberly is a Senior Critic at New York Academy of Art, and the founder and director of the Hayama Artist Residency in Japan. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the online education platform, CreativeStudy.