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.
Light 1, 2016
oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
Darkness 2, 2016
oil on canvas
14 × 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
Darkness 7, 2016
oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
Speechless, 2014
graphite on paper
13 7/8 x 15 inches
Schoolmaster, 2014
graphite on paper
13 7/8 x 15 inches
Draped Model, 2012
oil on canvas
10 × 16 × 1 inches
Landscape with Car and House on Fire, 2012
oil on canvas
10 x 20 inches
Small Fires, 2013
oil on canvas
10 x 10 inches
Lighting a Fire, 2013
oil on canvas
10 x 7 inches
Glow, 2013
oil on canvas
10 x 15 inches
Weavers, 2012
oil on canvas
10 x 17 inches
El Exiliado II (The Exile II), 2010
oil on canvas
24 x 40 inches
Nude Female with Dark Mask II, 2010
oil on canvas
16x 16 inches (16 x 8 inches, each panel)
T. Eakins Nude Holding Nude Female, 2010
oil on canvas
32 x 20 inches (16 x 20 inches, each panel)
History of a Jump I (a), 2010
oil on canvas
32 x 31 inches (16 x 31 inches, each panel)
History of a Jump I (b), 2010
oil on canvas
32 x 31 inches
History of a Jump II (c), 2010
oil on canvas
32 x 55 inches
T. Eakins Nude I, 2010
oil on canvas
16 x 16 inches (16 x 8 inches, each panel)
T. Eakins Nude II, 2010
oil on canvas
16x 16 inches, (16 x 8 inches, each panel)
Música Blanca II, 2002-2004
oil on canvas
60 x 33 inches
Solis Flamma I, 2003
graphite on paper
31 x 15 inches
Colores (Colors), 2003
oil on canvas
31 x 19 inches
