Creation Entertainment's

13th Annual Official STAR TREK Convention

Las Vegas 2014

July 31 - August 3, 2014

The Rio Suites Hotel

3700 W. Flamingo Rd.

Las Vegas, NV

 

Sunday, August 3, 2014 in the Gene and Majel Roddenberry Theatre - Pavilion Ballroom at 9:00 am Kate Mulgrew introduces her son, Los Angeles artist, Alec Egan.

 

Alec is an MFA graduate of Otis College of Art and Design and he has spent the last year on a new body of work, Luminous Opera. Egan’s language is aggressive and visceral, based in questions of authenticity and art historical myths and clichés. Reframing Van Gogh’s pictorial language, moreover, using it as a trope with his own subject matter, Egan creates a muscular vocabulary with dense, excessive surfaces akin to Anselm Keifer and Leon Kossoff. His application of oil paint is a constructive process; images built into large scale, tactile landscapes and portraits. They are a fecund and material totality. Egan’s subjects are both personal and historic; familial portraiture to Van Gogh’s fields and trees. His depiction of Van Gogh’s green parrot is transformed into a double edged allegory; now a diving acrobat, or a descending Icarus figure? Using commercial poster art or Star Trek references, Egan rides a confluence of humor, tragedy, nature, and Pop influences to investigate ideas of masculinity, beauty and culture. His works are a deliberate statement on the ecstatic wisdom of making pictures; a belief in the power of the artist, and a declarative howl.

 

In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Voyager, Alec will also have very limited, very special paintings of Ms. Mulgrew, which both he and Kate will sign on SUNDAY morning, following Kate’s surprise stage appearance with Alec on SUNDAY. All artwork can be purchased directly at Alec’s Table #66 in the vendors room.  Please visit his website: www.alecegan.com

 

Visit Creation Entertainment's website for more information about the convention.