Studio Artist Program

David D’Agostino’s artistic intentions bypass parochial codifications of art as a finished object in time and space. Applying the principles of early Fluxus artists, D’Agostino explores the liminal space that exists between the creation of one object or idea and its subsequent re-imagining. His recent Alphabet Species series embraces the idea that any object (be it a painting, a sculpture, a video, etc.) is not a definitive realization, but a mere temporal incubation waiting to be reignited as a new form. As Fluxus poet Dick Higgins outlined: we expect to see or hear A, instead of which we see or hear B, and this points to a new entity, C. D’Agostino has exhibited at the MOCA Denver; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; The Archeological Museum, Varna, Bulgaria; and Hause E, Ludwigshafen, Germany, among others.