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Alex Mcadoo

Alex McAdoo’s work explores the artist’s relationship with the American landscape through the lens of unacknowledged Eastern history. As a multiracial Brown American, McAdoo notes how “history can be used as one of the most powerful weapons.” As such, he has researched Eastern inventors extensively, particularly Alhazen, an Islamic Golden-Age mathematician and “the father of modern optics.” Alhazen's experiments and research on light and perspective changed how European painters approached image-making, which defies the prescribed Eurocentric story of art history. Using modern optical technology inspired by Alhazen’s light experiments—including a 360-degree camera that records images in all directions at once—McAdoo paints landscape images he collects while traveling across the US.

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Alex McAdoo
Icy Trees at Mammoth, 2022
Oil on linen
Offered in March 2023
Alex McAdoo
Stimpson Reserve, 2022
Oil on linen
Offered in March 2023
Alex McAdoo
Palm Springs, 2022
Oil on linen
Offered in March 2023
Alex McAdoo
Telluride Obscura, 2022
Oil on linen
Offered in March 2023

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Make Room LA
5119 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles
United States of America

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