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Titled, \u2018Plus Ultra\u2019 in a nod to soccer super fans, Brian Alfred<\/a>\u2019s latest solo show at Miles McEnery Gallery<\/a> alternates between empty arenas and silhouetted crowd scenes including marathoners and masked figures holding flares in a haze created by smoke bombs.\u00a0 In the middle ground between colorful but coldly angular architecture and super-heated crowd scenes, Alfred introduces solitary figures hang gliding at a distance or here, seated alone against a colorful pattern of stadium seating.\u00a0 The artist doesn\u2019t elaborate on how mega fandom materializes, going from an individual\u2019s interest to a collective fever, rather the pictures\u2019 power is in suggesting a jarringly large gap between solitary and group behavior.\u00a0 (On view through Aug 14th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

Brian Alfred, The Spectator, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50 inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Titled, \u2018Plus Ultra\u2019 in a nod to soccer super fans, Brian Alfred\u2019s latest solo show at Miles McEnery Gallery alternates between empty arenas and silhouetted crowd scenes including marathoners and masked figures holding flares in a haze created by smoke bombs.\u00a0 In the middle ground between colorful but coldly angular architecture and super-heated crowd scenes, … <\/p>\n

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