Growing Up in HollywoodAlex Alferov's 1990 print Growing Up in Hollywoodis an abstract portrait of Marilyn Monroe. The vision developed by Alferov over the course of his artistic career blends his obsession with the abstract and his appreciation of representational forms, such as the wide ranging expressiveness of the human face and body. Alferov consolidates regional and international influences from his study and travel throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia to

Layering such disparate ideas and techniques

The act of surrendering to nature or seeing oneself as inseparable from the Antillean terrain recalls Suzanne Césaire's notion of the "plant-man" when she wrote: "Like the plant

a building stands alone in an empty lot in the Bronx

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clouds were all relatives—nations unite themselves

I get some really interesting effects that come from painting

The Little Rootkeeper

and the omnipresent knowledge of our own mortality are all themes in my works- sometimes implicitly

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and other great jazz musicians play at Club Bohemia and the Five Spot

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