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ALEXANDER KALETSKI ‘ CARDBOARD CASTLE’ AT DILLON GALLERY

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NEW YORK CITY — Dillon Gallery is exhibiting Alexander Kaletski’s “Cardboard Castle” through June 5. In this exhibit, Kaletski continues his remarkable endless parade of eye-catching characters that inhabit the world. These paint and collage portraits display the spectacular, often riveting, yet everyday characters.

Beginning with commercial cardboard packaging to which collage has been added, through both line and color, the resulting artworks reveal, inform, provoke, but most often, they amuse.

After defecting from the Soviet Union in the 1970s, Kaletski became enthralled with the high quality and abundance of disposable packing materials in the United States. For the artist, these materials provided unique, if unusual, components for the creative process.

A perceptive eye, coupled with a mature, confident artistry, results in penetrating observations of the extraordinary individuals that populate culture. In addition to the provocative images produced, the viewer is confronted with the amplification of the logo or design remnant of the original product contained, as well as the cardboard itself, scarred, pitted and torn, now artfully reborn.

Alexander Kaletski has exhibited at the Aldrich Museum. Ridgefield, Conn.; Nassau County (N.Y.) Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Minsk; as well as numerous galleries both here and abroad.

For more information, www.dillongallery.com or 212-727-8585.