Alex Steckly’s Outer Space
Alex just busted his leg in two and needed some metal put into it b/c he drove his 1980-storm-trooper-scooter into a car or some such David vs Goliath tale. What I imagine is that all the while his mind was in outer space dreaming another one of his new paintings, this really radical new work.
I’m once again impressed by this young artist. This kind of technical discipline isn’t something an artist usually develops until they’re approaching they’re 30s. Sized around 40×90″ and corner to corner layered with subtlety, it’s needless to say the web doesn’t do these paintings justice.
This work following his last circle/moon series has taken on a kind of neo-formalism, and I think once Alex takes this and pushes underlying ideas+intent as far as the form the moon and outer space will be the limit for him.
Heal up.
Painting: © Alex Steckly, 2008.
Painting: © Alex Steckly, 2008.
is alex steckly showing anywhere now? or if he has a website?
Madeleine, Alex is not having a show right now as far as I know, and in the old fashioned spirit of the reclusive artist he doesn’t have a website…I’m not even sure if he has an e-mail. Sometimes he picks up his cell phone, but rarely. Your best chances of finding him are to go and knock on his studio’s door.