Speechless, 2014
graphite on paper
13 7/8 x 15 inches
Schoolmaster, 2014
graphite on paper
13 7/8 x 15 inches
Light 1, 2016
oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
Darkness 1, 2016
oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
Light 2, 2016
oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
Darkness 2, 2016
oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
Darkness 4, 2016
oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
Darkness 5, 2016
oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
Darkness 6, 2016
oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
Light 7, 2016
oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
Darkness 7, 2016
oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
Classroom Study, 2013
oil on canvas
10 x 7 inches
Landscape with Car and House on Fire, 2012
oil on canvas
10 x 20 inches
Draped Model, 2012
oil on canvas
10 × 16 × 1 inches
Espera, 2013
oil on canvas
40 x 60 inches
(Argentina, b.1956)
Jose Alberto Marchi’s paintings are highly conceptual investigations of the phenomena of light, as energy, as metaphor, and as a formal attribute of both painting and photography. Marchi’s paintings include figures gleaned from anonymous 19th-century photographs. Marchi paints these figures in otherworldly atmospheres of light and shadow. Marchi sometimes paints virtually identical compositions, with formal values suggesting a photograph and it’s negative. His highly curated solo exhibitions often reference specific artists (Eakins, Muybridge, Cage) or art historical events. Jose Alberto Marchi’s art can be said to inhabit a fugitive world where painting, photography and conceptual art are seamlessly conjoined.
