Alfonse Pagano

Alfonse Pagano is a New York-based artist working in painting, mixed media, drawing, and photography. His work emphasizes layered surfaces, rich texture, and the physical qualities of materials—ink, graphite, rice paper, canvas, and resin. Pieces often show visible process: abrasion, buildup, and the marks of making.Early formative experience included working with kinetic sculptor and filmmaker Len Lye, which reinforced an interest in material energy, surface, and transformation. The inventory includes abstract and semi-abstract compositions, works on paper, and mixed-media pieces in a range of sizes, often balancing structure with organic variation.

2019

“All Politics are Local”
Jackson Junge Gallery ,Chicago Il

2018

“Rush to Relics”
Mana Contemporary

“In the Age Of Trump”
The Center for contemporary Polical Art
Washington DC

“Rituals and Identity” Anne Street Gallery, Newburg, NY

“One Year of Resistance” Untitled Space Gallery New York, NY

2008

“We Cover the Waterfront”
Seaport District Cultural Association, New York, NY

2005 “Dreads” WBGO Gallery, Newark,

2004 “Dreads” Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ

2003 “Dreads” Stevens Institute, Hoboken, NJ

2002 “Dreads” Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT

2001 “Dreads” University of Maryland, College Park, MD

1990 Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1989

“New American Talent”
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

Henri Gallery Washington, DC

1988

“Ten Americans”
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA

Concept Gallery, Pittsburg, PA

Henri Gallery, Washington, DC

1987 “PAPER PAPER PAPER”
Helios Gallery, New York, NY

1980 Paterson Arts Council, Paterson, NJ

One Man Show

1978 Synecia Arts, Middletown, NY

1989 “HARDTACK SUITE”
Wenger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1989 RUMORS OF YOUTH
Concept Art Gallery
Pittsburg, PA

1982 “WORKS ON PAPER”
Zoma Gallery, New York, NY

1978 Synecia Arts Center, Middletown, NY

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