If you’re being followed or navigating a dangerous place, your natural defense mechanisms activate and start tuning. These mechanisms are buried in our mind and body, just as they are in any other domesticated animal. Colors get brighter, movements slow down, and you can shift from terror to […]
As a self-taught artist, Andrew Alba says he’s able to create works “outside the constraining expectations that contemporary artists educated within the academy often face.” That hasn’t kept the artist out of official art institutions, however. He’s halfway through a year-long residency at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, […]
As a self-taught artist and descendant of mexican migrant workers, Albas large scale paintings and drawings evoke an emotional response while still maintaining relevant commentary on contemporary politics and society. Alba has recently finished a year long residency at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Alba has exhibited […]
