Caffè Quadri
Artist: Alli Conrad
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18×36
Artist: Alli Conrad
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18×36
Artist: Alli Conrad
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18×36
About the Exhibition
This summer, Salon 21 is thrilled to announce an exclusive collaboration with LDV at The Maidstone, East Hampton’s beloved haven of modern hospitality and historic charm, to curate a captivating exhibition, “La Dolce Vita," bringing a taste of European elegance to the heart of the Hamptons. This exciting partnership marks a significant milestone for both brands, which share a commitment to community, design, and honoring the rich history of the Hamptons.
About the Artist
Alli Conrad is a Chinese-American artist working & living in Los Angeles whose work focuses on nostalgia: both private and universal. Her paintings often depict observed and imagined realities, freezing moments of time from personal memory, to produce compositions imbued with emotionality and romanticism. A fascination with pastiche sentimentality, and yesteryear symbolism derives from Conrad’s own upbringing, as a “Third Culture Kid”. The work comes from a rigorous method of archiving: augmenting historical photographs, journaling, and collaging. From there, a singular image arises that feels faintly distant, but overwhelmingly recognizable. Cropped vignettes of clothing fabric come alive and act as a container for indirect emotion. Repetition and an obsession with mark-making envelopes the viewer, allowing them to feel place and time. Through the subtle absence of human faces in her paintings, Conrad allows her audience to transport themselves into a sensorial experience of relatable tableaus, creating an endless possibility of narratives.
