Luis Alves Collage

Media and Art exert powerful influences over all of us through continuous, evolving processes of reflection and creation. They shape our hopes and fears, our notions of beauty and ugliness, our ideas about the primitive and the civilized, our conceptions of the honorable and the shameful. My work uses juxtaposed images to comment on the deep and delicate role the media plays in the shaping of our complex lives, identities, and consciousness. Each collage is hand-manipulated with the goal of transformation as a way of commenting on, satirizing or criticizing the source material.

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Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

Exposure, 12/8-12/12/15
Ceres Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, New York, NY
Featured works: The Obama Show series of 12 collages, Burn Notice, Necessary Roughness, Cheerios

Primar(il)y Red, 12/4/15-1/4/16
Gallery U Boutique, 439 South Avenue, Westfield, NJ (Curated by Robert Langdon)
Featured work: Save Today Splurge Tomorrow

Art in the Public Eye:What’s All the fuss?, 10/22-11/8/15
Pierro Gallery, 5 Mead Street, South Orange, NJ (Curated by Judy Wukitsch/Raleigh Ceaser)
Featured works: The Obama Show series of 12 collages

9th Annual Naked In New Hope, 9/12-10/31/15
Sidetracks Gallery, 2A Stockton Avenue, New Hope, PA (curated by Mickey Godinez/Paul Murphy)
Featured works: Sports Lover, Face Time

Sands (The Vanishing of Time), 11/11-11/19/15
Hamilton Street Gallery, 6 Hamilton Street, Bound Brook, NJ (Curated by Brian McCormack/Joan Sonnenfeld) Featured works: Walking with Dinosaurs series (Origins/La Prairie/Aveeno)

Art to #EndAIDSNY2020, 6/17-6/30/15
Housing Works, 157 E.23rd Street, New York, NY (Curated by Melchor Sereneo Alvarez)
Featured work: Life Savers Kate (auctioned for charity on Paddle 8)

Issues, 4/26-5/22/15
Arts Guild New Jersey, 1670 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ (Curated ...