Alec Egan is a Los Angeles based painter. His thick impastoed figurative paintings are strikingly banal interior scenes. The interior spaces his paintings depict are premised on a fictitious memory— willfully playing on tropes of nostalgia. There are moments of clarity in the messy compositions. Particular objects begin to stick out and become repeated across his various canvases. This repetition allows the items to garner their own strength and intensity, despite their mundane status. A pair of socks or plants on a windowsill are distilled into something melancholic and profound.
Alec Egan (b. 1984, Los Angeles, CA) completed his MFA at Otis College of Art and Design in 2013, and received a BFA in creative writing and poetry from Kenyon College. Recent solo exhibitions include Pets at Charles Moffett Gallery, New York (2019); Alec Egan: The Living Room at Dubuque Museum of Art, Iowa (2019); and Viewing Room at Anat Ebgi Gallery in Los Angeles (2018). His work has also been exhibited at the California Heritage Museum (2017) and the Torrance Art Museum (2015), among others. Egan recently had his first solo exhibition in Asia—Miro’s Corner—at MAKI Gallery in Tokyo, Japan.
EXHIBITIONS
August, July 11 – September 5, 2020
Staycation, April 7 – May 30, 2020
Viewing Room, March 17 – April 28, 2018
Alec Egan
- 1984
- Born in Los Angeles, CA. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Education
- 2013
- MFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
- 2007
- BA, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
- 2006
- The New School, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
- 2021
- The Study, Charles Moffet, New York, NY
- Miro's Corner, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2020
- August, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019
- Pets, Charles Moffet, New York, NY
- Living Room, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA
- Dallas Art Fair, with Anat Ebgi, Dallas Texas
- 2018
- Viewing Room, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2017
- Expo Chicago, with Anat Ebgi, Chicago, IL
- Welcome Home, California Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- 2016
- Sanctuary House, Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR
- Close To Home, Freight and Volume, New York, NY 2014
- Luminous Opera, Western Project, Culver City, CA
- 2013
- You Should’ve Asked Your Dad About That, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angles, CA
- 2010
- Look, Room Gallery, Hartford, CT
- 2009
- Tranny, Box Eight, Los Angeles, CA
- Secret Agents, Sebrof International Gallery, New York, NY
- Recent Work, Studio 2507, Portland, OR
Group Exhibitions
- 2020
- Good Company: Pt. 1, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- L.A. Views, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Staycation, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019
- The Conversation, Anat Ebgi at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
- 2018
- Art Los Angeles Contemporary, with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2017
- Art Los Angeles Contemporary, with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2016
- Memory Theater, Upfor Gallary, Portland, OR
- 2015
- Untitled, Freight and Volume, New York, NY
- Sincerely Yours, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
- 2014
- Unknowable, Jaus, Los Angeles, CA
- The Status of Portraiture, Autonomy, Culver City, CA
- 2013
- Shutter Speed, De Service Garage, Amsterdam, NE
- Untitled, Western Project, Culver City, CA
- MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA Five, California Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Chess, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2012
- All My Gilberts, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2011
- Voices, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA
- 2010
- NOHIO, Poor Dog Studio, Los Angeles, CA
- 2007
- Salt Shaker, Horn, Gambier, OH
Artist in Residence
- 2016
- DNR Residency, Cape Cod, MA
- 2015
- Millwork Residency, Dubuque, IA
Publications
- 2020
- Zellen, Jody. "Alec Egan at Anat Ebgi Gallery." Artillery. September/October Print. (Link)
- Cohen, Alina. "17 Contemporary Artists Reimagining the Still Life." Artsy. August 7, 2020. (Link)
- Goldstein, Caroline. "Painter Alec Egan’s Luscious Interiors and Brightly Lit Landscapes Are the Subject of a New Show at Anat Ebgi." artnet. July 24, 2020. (Link)
- 2019
- "Alec Egan at Anat Ebgi." Patron Magazine, April: p. 78-79. Print. (Link)
- 2018
- "Vividness in Alec Egan’s ‘Viewing Room’ at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles." Artinfo (Link)
- 2013
- “Studio Visit With Alec Egan.” 3 Cities Productions.
- 2012
- Herod, Regina. “Interview with Alec Egan.” Object Cathexis MFA Publication: p. 32- 38. Print.
- 2010
- “Kara Chats with Artist Alec Egan.” Better Connecticut. Daily Motion. Television.
- 2006
- “The Heather Stalks.” Chanterelle’s Notebook, a poetry e-zine.
- 2005
- “Untitled.” The Horn Magazine: p. 18-23. Print
Public Collections
- 2016
- The Saunders Collection, Berlin, Germany
- 2009
- Key Brand Entertainment, London, England
Oil and flashe on canvas 84 x 72 inches / 213.4 x 182.9 cm
Oil on canvas 72 x 60 inches / 182.9 x 152.4 cm
Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches / 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Oil on canvas on panel 30 x 24 inches / 76.2 x 61 cm
Detail
Oil and flashe on canvas 72 x 60 inches / 182.9 x 152.4 cm
Oil and flashe on canvas 48 x 36 inches / 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Oil and flashe paint on canvas 48 x 36 inches / 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Detail
Detail
Oil and flashe paint on canvas 48 x 36 inches / 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Oil and flashe paint on canvas 48 x 36 inches / 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Detail
Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Oil and flashe paint on canvas 84 x 72 inches / 213.4 x 182.9 cm
Oil and flashe on canvas 60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Oil and flashe on canvas 60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Oil and flashe on canvas 60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Oil and flashe on canvas 40 x 30 inches / 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Oil and flashe on canvas 84 x 72 inches / 213.4 x 182.9 cm
Oil and flashe on canvas 60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches / 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches / 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches / 76.2 x 61 cm
Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Wave, 2018
Oil and flasche paint on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Mountain on Wall, 2018
Oil and flasche paint on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Room , 2018
Oil, flashe paint, and colored pencil on canvas
84 x 60 inches
Room , 2018
Oil on canvas
72 x 60 inches
Staircase, 2017
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Sunset Mountains, 2018
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Moutains #4, 2017
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Boots with Flowers , 2018
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Flowers on Bookshelf , 2017
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Stack of Books and Poster , 2017
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Flowers on Bookshelf (detail) , 2017
Chair #2, 2017
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Heels, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Mountain #5 , 2017
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Brother, 2017
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Boots #3, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Vaulted Room , 2017
Oil and colored pencil on paper
38 x 48 inches
Bookshelf, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Book #2, 2017
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Stack of Books #2, 2017
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Entrance, 2017
Oil on canvas
72 x 60 inches
Socks, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Room #2, 2017
Oil on canvas
72 x 60 inches
Bookshelf #2, 2017
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Book #3, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Plants, 2017
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Room #3, 2017
Oil on canvas
72 x 60 inches
Mountain #3, 2017
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Cat, 2017
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Library, 2017
Oil on canvas
72 x 60 inches
Mountain #2, 2017
Oil on canvas
72 x 60 inches
Bathroom, 2017
Oil on canvas
72 x 60 inches
Book #5, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Socks #3, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Ashtray, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
BIOGRAPHY
Alec Egan is a Los Angeles based painter. His thick impastoed figurative paintings are strikingly banal interior scenes. The interior spaces his paintings depict are premised on a fictitious memory— willfully playing on tropes of nostalgia. There are moments of clarity in the messy compositions. Particular objects begin to stick out and become repeated across his various canvases. This repetition allows the items to garner their own strength and intensity, despite their mundane status. A pair of socks or plants on a windowsill are distilled into something melancholic and profound.
Alec Egan (b. 1984, Los Angeles, CA) completed his MFA at Otis College of Art and Design in 2013, and received a BFA in creative writing and poetry from Kenyon College. Recent solo exhibitions include Pets at Charles Moffett Gallery, New York (2019); Alec Egan: The Living Room at Dubuque Museum of Art, Iowa (2019); and Viewing Room at Anat Ebgi Gallery in Los Angeles (2018). His work has also been exhibited at the California Heritage Museum (2017) and the Torrance Art Museum (2015), among others. Egan recently had his first solo exhibition in Asia—Miro’s Corner—at MAKI Gallery in Tokyo, Japan.
EXHIBITIONS
August, July 11 – September 5, 2020
Staycation, April 7 – May 30, 2020
Viewing Room, March 17 – April 28, 2018
CV
Alec Egan
- 1984
- Born in Los Angeles, CA. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Education
- 2013
- MFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
- 2007
- BA, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
- 2006
- The New School, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
- 2021
- The Study, Charles Moffet, New York, NY
- Miro's Corner, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2020
- August, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019
- Pets, Charles Moffet, New York, NY
- Living Room, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA
- Dallas Art Fair, with Anat Ebgi, Dallas Texas
- 2018
- Viewing Room, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2017
- Expo Chicago, with Anat Ebgi, Chicago, IL
- Welcome Home, California Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- 2016
- Sanctuary House, Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR
- Close To Home, Freight and Volume, New York, NY 2014
- Luminous Opera, Western Project, Culver City, CA
- 2013
- You Should’ve Asked Your Dad About That, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angles, CA
- 2010
- Look, Room Gallery, Hartford, CT
- 2009
- Tranny, Box Eight, Los Angeles, CA
- Secret Agents, Sebrof International Gallery, New York, NY
- Recent Work, Studio 2507, Portland, OR
Group Exhibitions
- 2020
- Good Company: Pt. 1, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- L.A. Views, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Staycation, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019
- The Conversation, Anat Ebgi at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
- 2018
- Art Los Angeles Contemporary, with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2017
- Art Los Angeles Contemporary, with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2016
- Memory Theater, Upfor Gallary, Portland, OR
- 2015
- Untitled, Freight and Volume, New York, NY
- Sincerely Yours, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
- 2014
- Unknowable, Jaus, Los Angeles, CA
- The Status of Portraiture, Autonomy, Culver City, CA
- 2013
- Shutter Speed, De Service Garage, Amsterdam, NE
- Untitled, Western Project, Culver City, CA
- MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA Five, California Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Chess, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2012
- All My Gilberts, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2011
- Voices, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA
- 2010
- NOHIO, Poor Dog Studio, Los Angeles, CA
- 2007
- Salt Shaker, Horn, Gambier, OH
Artist in Residence
- 2016
- DNR Residency, Cape Cod, MA
- 2015
- Millwork Residency, Dubuque, IA
Publications
- 2020
- Zellen, Jody. "Alec Egan at Anat Ebgi Gallery." Artillery. September/October Print. (Link)
- Cohen, Alina. "17 Contemporary Artists Reimagining the Still Life." Artsy. August 7, 2020. (Link)
- Goldstein, Caroline. "Painter Alec Egan’s Luscious Interiors and Brightly Lit Landscapes Are the Subject of a New Show at Anat Ebgi." artnet. July 24, 2020. (Link)
- 2019
- "Alec Egan at Anat Ebgi." Patron Magazine, April: p. 78-79. Print. (Link)
- 2018
- "Vividness in Alec Egan’s ‘Viewing Room’ at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles." Artinfo (Link)
- 2013
- “Studio Visit With Alec Egan.” 3 Cities Productions.
- 2012
- Herod, Regina. “Interview with Alec Egan.” Object Cathexis MFA Publication: p. 32- 38. Print.
- 2010
- “Kara Chats with Artist Alec Egan.” Better Connecticut. Daily Motion. Television.
- 2006
- “The Heather Stalks.” Chanterelle’s Notebook, a poetry e-zine.
- 2005
- “Untitled.” The Horn Magazine: p. 18-23. Print
Public Collections
- 2016
- The Saunders Collection, Berlin, Germany
- 2009
- Key Brand Entertainment, London, England