GONE AND FOR EVER by Alex Stadler
On Exhibit: September 3 - September 15
Opening Reception:
ARTIST BIO:
Alex Stadler is a multidisciplinary artist, painter, author, textile designer, illustrator, ceramicist, and curator. Stadler has written and illustrated more than 10 books for children and adults, and created public artwork and murals for Colette Paris, Reading Terminal Market and Comcast in Philadelphia, and Saks 5th Avenue's flagship store in New York City. As a textile designer, he has created his own line of knitted scarves and blankets, stadler-Kahn, and has collaborated with and designed for Comme des Garçons, Jack Lenor Larsen, GapKids, Todd Oldham, and Whoopi Goldberg.
At stadler-Kahn, his gallery/shop/design lab in Philadelphia, he produced numerous exhibits over a six-year period, featuring mid-career and emerging artists and designers.
In June of 2022, Stadler produced, directed and created work for a memorial and procession entitled Gone & For Ever, honoring the unclaimed of the early days of the AIDS crisis. This public work, created by a team of artists, composers and designers, was part of a larger initiative led by the William Way Community Center in Philadelphia and was funded through a grant from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.
Gone & For Ever is also the title of the short documentary about the project. Stadler finished work on that project in 2023.
Stadler currently shows paintings and ceramics with Kneeland & Co in Los Angeles