"Now, the department isn't so active on the film side, because so many things are done digitally that used to be done in an analogue way. View the MOCA Masks collection lookbook. "This is the most popular game show in America, "Wheel of Fortune." Alex Israel, Self-Portrait, 2017.Courtesy of Mixografia.

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And I love the wheel because it represents this early 80s idea of an American dream.

The 37-year-old artist has carried this mantle into the 21st century, as one of the stars of the city's homegrown art scene, which has boomed in the last decade.

The photographer who captured Hollywood's last wild decade In the distance is the cinder-block wall that props up the Orientalist façade of historic Grauman's Chinese Theatre, a street-hustling Minnie Mouse impersonator, Coca-Cola umbrellas, and all the detritus of this drab tourist strip. "It doesn't matter to me to know that every reality TV show is heavily produced.

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Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 6:15pm Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. View a wide Variety of artworks by Alex Israel, now available for sale on artnet Auctions.

His use of a nostalgic color palette evokes a 1980s Americana sensibility, and emphasizes the notorious Southern California light often portrayed in film and television. Looking at one canvas, of the "Wheel of Fortune," he confronts the question of whether these miscellaneous branded "self-portraits" tell us anything meaningful about the artist. Self-Potrait, 2017.

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For Israel, the city's paper-thin glamor is no bad thing. "I think it's great that you can see the fantasy and how it's fabricated and still know that you want to believe it.

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There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. "This is my inner truth!" From Sotheby's, Alex Israel, Self Portrait, Acrylic and Bondo on fiberglass, 181.3 × 152.4 × 7.6 cm In Self-Portrait, Alex Israel takes a visual approach that closely references Southern California popular culture. "Working on the lot, in front of a changing backdrop of superhero blockbusters and big-budget fantasies, Israel found an ideal place to interrogate the sheen of allure that he likes to call "stardust. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Suited and wearing his self-designed sunglasses, with crackling microphone and stilted local-access TV camerawork, Israel brings a disjointed, cringey energy to the show. 30 x 25 x 0.75 in.

Booko is reader-supported. Alex Israel. This graph is for informational purposes only. ISBN: 9781938560255 "Self-Portrait (Wheel of Fortune)" (2017) by Alex Israel Many celebrity guests have appeared, Gwyneth Paltrow, Charlie Sheen and Kris Jenner, often squirming opposite Israel. He received a BA from Yale University in 2003, and an MFA from USC’s Roski School of Fine Art in 2010. You spin the wheel and sometimes it goes well, sometimes it doesn't. Pre-order with Booko: The World Aflame In 2016, Israel gained international attention for his collaboration with author Bret Easton Ellis, which incorporated the "American Psycho" novelist's words into Instagram-esque images of palm trees and concrete highways.

Thank You. View in Room. In appearances, it sits somewhere between Zac Galifianakis' talk show "Between Two Ferns" and Andy Warhol's celebrity obsessive Interview Magazine. ""You get to see behind the scenes how things are made, which can really demystify the whole thing," he said, adding: "But for me it doesn't demystify the fantasy and the illusion." Alex Israel (b.1982) was born in Los Angeles where he lives and works.

In this ongoing series of photorealistic paintings, Israel frames quintessential Los Angeles scenery and snippets from his daily life inside crisp cut-out … Est. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions.

From The Broad Collection: Alex Israel, Self Portrait (Selfie and Studio Floor), 2014, acrylic and bondo on fiberglass, The Broad Art Foundation. Others, like rockstar Marilyn Manson, appear at home with Israel's strangeness, getting deep about his favorite facial hair.

Lucy Liu on making art to find a sense of belongingEach of the scenes is presented as a self-portrait, rendered on fiberglass with the uncanny quality of a Hollywood set: photorealistic at a distance but dissolving into brushstrokes the closer you get. Available for sale from Mixografia, Alex Israel, Self-Portrait (2017), Mixografía® print on handmade paper, 30 × 25 × 1 in Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. View in Room. "His first solo show in London, "Always on My Mind," brings together 13 paintings, each contained inside an outline of the artist's profile silhouette.

96 x 84 x 4 inches (243.8 x 213.4 x 10.2 cm) Join Gagosian for a tour of Alex Israel: Always On My Mind, an exhibition of new Self-Portraits by the artist, led by Gagosian director Millicent Wilner. Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s among the LA elite -- he's well-networked with art royalty and heiresses -- some works reflect the changing face of the city, as it has moved from old Hollywood to Influencer culture. The unusual arrangement has helped Israel establish a symbiotic relationship with the industry that he idolizes, including exhibiting old props in galleries as readymade artworks, and projecting the bat-symbol from Tim Burton's "Batman" (1989) from Le Corbusier's brutalist Cité Radieuse, an architectural landmark in Marseille. Alex Israel: Self-Portraits (181.3 × 140.7 × 7.6 cm).