ABOUT ALANA AVIEL
Alana is a multipassionate Mirror Muse, with backgrounds ranging architecture, film, furniture design and collage. She walked away at the peak of her career to take sabbatical in the forest alone for 6 years. She studied nature, humanity and global spirituality to return to art to speak on the breadth of the human experience as though her alien perspective peers in from the outside.
Contact
REPRESENTED BY
RYAN O'CONNOR
Solo Exhibitions
IDENTIFY: Reflecting on Codification of Who Usagi NY, Brooklyn (gallery designed by architect Sou Fujimoto) · March 19 – April 9, 2016
A solo exhibition of interrelated sculpture and projection video works examining how identity is constructed and codified, accompanied by a site-specific butoh performance series featuring internationally acclaimed dancer Vangeline (Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute)
Works in the exhibition (photography: Nicola Bailey):
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Imagination — piano, sintra, wood, digital projection
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Reflection — mylar, dance, and original digital art
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Introspection — fire alarm, mirror, motor
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Interpretation — wood, steel
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Alienation — wood and digital art
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Contextualization — mylar, sintra, and digital projection (2016–17)
Publications
2016 — IDENTIFY: Reflecting on Codification of Who (solo), Usagi NY, Brooklyn
2016 — Embody, interactive projection-mapped sculpture, in SUMMIT: The High Focus Institute's Conference on Nature, Technology and Self, Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn — group exhibition of environmental interactive video and performance installations presented by the High Focus Institute collective (2017 Burning Man Honoraria recipients)
2015 — Lead Fabricator & Artist Lumiphonic Creature Choir by Mark Bolotin, Burning Man: Carnival of Mirrors, Black Rock City, NV — Honoraria project featured in the maze at the base of the Man
2014 — Dystopia, projection-mapped installation, SCOPE Art Miami, Miami Beach, FL
2014 — Voyeur and Smoked & Stitched, in Elemental Exchange, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn Voyeur: manipulated steel sculpture carrying a projection-mapped film of facial features running on random — each expressed emotion an amalgamation of conflicting messages from various faces. Smoked & Stitched: fire hose, mixed media.
2014 — Growth, interactive projection-mapped sculpture, Burlington Art Hop, JDK Gallery, Burlington, VT Collaboration with Craig Winslow; dual Leap Motion controllers, twin projectors, Unity, Processing, Syphon, MadMapper, Blender. Earlier iteration at South End Art Hop, 2013.
2014 — Creative Technologist & Artist, large-scale playable keyboard installation for a video game by Jamie Carreiro, ADC Young Guns CFE, Art Directors Club, New York
Curatorial
Curator, Movement in Frame, mixed media group exhibition, The Studio, Bushwick, Brooklyn — December 31, 2016
Featured artists included Anne Spalter (work in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Albright-Knox, and RISD Museum), Jordan Bruner (Art Directors Club Young Guns Award winner; MTA Arts & Design commissions), Ashley Garner, and Launa Eddy.
Co-Curator (with Rosanna Scimeca),
Elemental Exchange, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, 2014
Ten artists — Asif Mian, Alana Aviel, Dorothy Trojanowski, Eduardo Cunha, Josh Kil, Kendalle Getty (billed at the time as Kendalle Fiasco; multimedia artist whose installations Hostile Home and Mirror of Influence have been presented at SPRING/BREAK Art Show and during LA Frieze Week, with profiles in Document Journal, Dazed, and Cultured), Nat Castanada, Rachel Chick, Rosanna Scimeca, and Ryan O'Connor — exploring desire, fetish, and identity, creating a collective nakedness and vulnerability.
