Exhibitions —

For Barely Fair 2024, april april presents an installation in miniature by Al Svoboda.

Titled Proposition (grayscale), the booth comprises a sequence of monochromatic planks in a leaning formation, held between two walls. The room-scale painting offers an image within the architecture in response to the limits it mechanizes as support. When viewed from the front wall’s doorway, a grayscale descends its shape, expressing Svoboda’s interest in modernist technique as a kind of physical exaltation. His formal inquiry reads awe-like, finding new intimacy with the atmosphere, grazing its boundaries to elude them.

Al Svoboda (b. 1991, Syracuse, New York) lives and works in New York, NY. He received his BFA from Syracuse University and MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Recent selected group shows include Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown, NY; Wieoftnoch, Karlsruhe, Germany; Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY and 57W57 Arts, New York, NY. Upcoming exhibitions include april april, Pittsburgh, in 2025.