Alec Egan

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Egan emerges as a voice of hope and resilience: his sunset-fire skies evoke Ed Ruscha’s iconic Hollywood screen print (1968), placing him within a lineage of artists who have composed love letters to a wounded yet perpetually reborn Los Angeles. —Patrick Steffen

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"The works are hung on a supersize scaled wallpapering of the pattern that was prominent through the paintings that were lost in the fire, a motif that Alec [Egan] has carried into his new suite of works as a quiet thread between what was lost and what he is building anew." —Stefano DiPaola

Alec Egan Lost Everything in the L.A. Fires. Now, the Tragedy is Fueling His Newest Paintings

The Los Angeles-based painter had spent the better part of two years preparing for three exhibitions: one at Anat Ebgi gallery in Los Angeles, a solo booth at FOG Design + Art Fair presented by Charles Moffett gallery, and a solo show at the Maki Collection in Tokyo, which would be Egan’s first major museum exhibition in Asia. —Ali Hoffman

Alec Egan’s Artwork Featured in Kinstler’s Puzzles

This piece was created by Los Angeles-based painter Alec Egan and features two beloved little treats, flowers and a cupcake. The 1,000 piece puzzle also comes with an interview with the artist and images of his most recent work. —Bridgette Mallon

Intimism Revisited: The New Generation of Artists Inspired By Their Private Spaces

The attention to precision is perhaps no more manifest than in the work of Alec Egan. Fields of bold pattern and color across wallpaper, linens, upholstery, and curtains threaten to overwhelm the eye but are harnessed by meticulous linework delineating form and space. The effect could be described as a sort of sterile vibrancy—idealization taken to the brink. Even in his more compositionally minimalist paintings such as of architecture or landscape, swathes of hyper-saturated ombré skies prohibit any sense of true reality, instead appearing more like a daydream or romanticized reverie.  —Annika Olsen

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I’ve been collecting Alec’s work and watching his incredible development for a few years now. The bright colors, the maximalist patterns, and the intense sunsets turn these traditionally domestic views into something striking. —Mike Steib

‘Is It Disgusting or Is It Beautiful?’: Sought-After L.A. Artist Alec Egan Taps Into the Theater of Artifice in His Maximalist Interiors

"In my work, there is a staging of that effect of pattern upon pattern. If I do it right, the work comes to a place where we wonder: Is it disgusting or is it beautiful? I like that kind of ad nauseam, confusing conceptual space, where beauty becomes more surreal and psychological.”  —Alec Egan

Alec Egan | An Art Fair Served Up Several Ways

Ms. Ebgi said that even though she had presold some of the works to Asian collectors — “You have to have some certainty,” she said — her gallery’s presence on the floor at the convention center was valuable. — Ted Loos

We All Live Inside Alec Egan’s Freakish Floral Paintings

"The recycling of cultural iconography intrigues me because it helps reference both the past and present (and perhaps the future) creating spaces that are oddly both nostalgic and current." —Alec Egan

Alec Egan: Anat Egbi

Egan’s painted world is lush and luscious, offering hope and a way to indulge in fabricated beauty. He is without a doubt a skilled draftsman who easily combines a range of styles by experimenting with thick and thin applications of paint as well as sparse to overcrowded compositions. —Jody Zellen

17 Contemporary Artists Reimagining the Still Life

Alec Egan’s lush interiors feature floral wallpapers and fabrics that suggest some absent homeowner’s obsession with harnessing nature into man-made designs. Egan loves the way that his still lifes can conjure narratives, as well as ideas about just who the mysterious, unseen occupants may be. He named “storytelling, exhibition construction, duration, and seriality” as his major aesthetic interests.  —Alina Cohen

On View: Alec Egan at Anat Ebgi

In the midst of his luscious, floral-laden wallpaper and upholstery patterns though, distinct forms coalesce for a well-earned respite. A brown grocery bag filled with perfectly ripe fruit is a symbol of the nostalgia that permeates all of Egan’s work, which he creates based on half-formed memories mixed with cultural sources. —Caroline Goldstein

Alec Egan at Anat Ebgi

The backgrounds in his paintings are often wallpaper patterns, occasionally so pronounced that they compete with subject matter, challenging traditional notions of background and foreground.

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"I think you can tell I came to fine art from writing. My paintings are about this conflict between representation and language and conflating their similarities. There’s a highly decorative thing going on with the flowers and wallpaper where on one hand they almost blend in with each other. But they are all paintings within paintings, mapping out the cerebral through actual space." —Alec Egan