RF Alvarez at Adaptations
RF. AlvarezBrooklyn, NY - Jul 16, 2019 - Aug 26, 2019
RF Alvarez is an Austin, Texas-based artist primarily working with bold figures in ink and acrylic on paper. This exhibition includes select works from RF’s "Archivo" series, drawn from Greek and Roman influences as well as pre-Columbian imagery, that prefigure a kind of future artifact. His arrangements reflect a growing catalog of ideals - pride, comfort, and safety, among others - that ambivalently call on iconography as a means of mapping or documenting experience. The resulting images follow an ambiguous logic with the intention of recycling relics to carve out new meaning.
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- RF. AlvarezAustin, TXArtist Page
RF. Alvarez (b. 1988) is an Austin, Texas-based artist whose practice explores the heritages of gender expectations and societal norms in relation to the queer body and its community. In paintings, drawings, and objects, RF. invites us to reflect upon intimacy through his deeply personal portrayal of queer lives. His mixed media approach experiments with the tactile nuance of material to convey layered meaning and expression. RF.'s process acts as a physical manifestation of the experience of suppression and memory, resulting in works that evoke a sense of excavation and discovery.