Alec Egan: The Study
7 September - 10 October 2021
Charles Moffett
511 Canal Street, NYC
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See checklist linked below for artwork info. For install shots and studio images, credit is included in the file title.
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Charles Moffett is pleased to present The Study, a solo presentation of 16 new works (11 oil paintings and 5 sculptures) that comprise the latest installment of Alec Egan (b. 1984, Los Angeles)’s ongoing construction of a fictional house—and psychological exploration of its absent homeowner. Since 2017, each sequential series has focused on a singular room of the house, gradually revealing more narrative clues about its hypothetical inhabitant. As Egan’s first immersive exhibition, The Study will bring his psych-thriller interiors scenes to life by adorning the gallery in over-the-top wallpaper and flooring that matches that within the paintings.
The signature aspect of Egan’s painting practice is intricate floral wallpaper. He is fascinated by this type of wallpaper on several levels. Most fundamentally, he thinks its objectively quite bizarre to cover an entire room in illustrated florals, yet wallpaper featuring patterned renderings of flowers is a mundane mainstay of décor throughout history. Which ties to another aspect of his fascination: that floral wallpaper is so intergenerational, cyclically going in and out of fashion, often impossible to definitively pin to a specific era. Egan elaborates,
“People weren’t content that flowers just grew in the wild. So they had to cut them down and plant them in gardens. And they didn't think that was good enough. So they had to cut them and put them inside their homes, and that wasn't even good enough. So they had to replicate them and put them on their walls, on all of their belongings. It blows my mind a bit.”
More information is in the above-linked release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Image reuse must be with credit to Charles Moffett, unless otherwise noted in the file title.
