James Alefantis used to own a DC Art Gallery named Strand on Volta! Now owns Transformer gallery. MUST SEE its disturbing! (pizzagate)

submitted ago by dmthirdeye

ODDLY ENOUGH, amid all the images of flesh on view in Strand on Volta's latest group exhibition, shown along with examples of some less readily identifiable bodily tissue/fluid sculpted from molten glass -- teeth? a jawbone? sperm? tears? -- the word that springs to mind is not "meat" but "plastic." As in pliable, capable of being molded, able to deform continuously and permanently without rupturing. This is, I think, central to the point of "Meat and You," a smart if somewhat esoteric show organized by artist James Huckenpahler to underscore not only our relationship to meat but our embodiment of it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2003/10/10/strand-on-volta-cuts-in-to-some-meaty-issues/8a433284-af01-4d27-aff1-2afd819a815b/?utm_term=.1ddc9b357597

THERE'S THE creepiness of a horror movie to Craig Doty's art, on view at Strand on Volta. Which is to say you might want to cover your eyes while peeking through the cracks of your fingers at the same time. I'm not just talking about the artist's more overtly spooky images, several of which depict nighttime scenes featuring characters engaged in behavior that could be construed as threatening, or in response to threat. Even Doty's most innocuous images -- and there's a kind of calm, classical innocence to almost all of them -- feel illicit, if not illegal. Should I be watching this, or reporting it? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060900651.html

Tony and Heather Podesta, David Brock, and Alefantis at Strand on Volta.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/food/article/13028600/plus-ccedila-change

Some of the sick works by an artist named Craig Doty who is featured at Strand on Volta - This shit is supposed to be art but is almost NSFL btw.

http://www.rootsandculturecac.org/images/shows/show32_445.jpg http://www.rootsandculturecac.org/images/shows/show32_448.jpg http://www.rootsandculturecac.org/images/shows/show32_447.jpg http://www.rootsandculturecac.org/images/shows/show32_441.jpg http://www.rootsandculturecac.org/images/shows/show32_452.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Ip2wwMnSOfo/Ss0FRlm36mI/AAAAAAAAAwE/NYf9h_kd5J4/s400/craig.jpg http://wecanshoottoo.blogspot.com/2009/10/feature-craig-doty.html

                                  Part 2. Transformer Gallery AKA Transexual

So as im digging I came across a second gallery that James Alefantis is the current president of called Trans-former Gallery with pretty weird "art" .also found a great set of photos of a Transformer Gallery hosted party at none other than Tony Podestas house!

http://www.transformerdc.org/about/council http://archive.is/joUBw Matha Wilson, featured at Transformer gallery more WTF. http://franklinfurnace.org/support/membership2015/mw_letter.php even more WTF - http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/002-M-WILSON-Bear-in-MindBare-in-Hind.jpg https://ribbonaroundabomb.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/franklin-7.jpg

Transformer Gallery artist trying to promote pedophilia - "NoMüNoMü maintains a diverse selection of artists whose make up cuts through the lines of race, age, gender and orientation, in order to create shows that can push dialogues and audiences towards a truer understanding of the intersectionality within the field of art, so as to transform it entirely." http://www.transformerdc.org/exhibitions/overview/exhibition-gift-shop

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gurneyx ago

i think its pretty clear that art galleries are being used to launder the cash for sale of people. You can sell a piece of art for whatever you want.

je-sui-pepe ago

As an owner of an art Gallery (small) I will say that the art i just looked at is not what i call art. My hubby and I do street art so we get a lot of edgy stuff, but nothing this disturbing. (and none of those links looked like art to me at all.) I will say the younger generation is death obsessed because of the Walking Dead and American Horror story type shows the they are influenced by. They tend to produce a lot of that type of work, we usually reject it unless its a really good concept or whatever. It is just strange what this supposed art gallery is showing,

strix-varia ago

Thanks for saying this. I am not liking "art" of any kind these days. I'd like to know why fine art students at uni are forced to study abramovic? Is that "art" in an artists world?

je-sui-pepe ago

depends on the Gallery, All galleries in the modern art world like to show edgy art. Mark Ryden is a well known artist with gorgeous art that leans towards pedophilia heavily, yet every young artist aspires to emulate his art. You have a whole subset of young artists who like to be edgy, most are not portraying pedophilia and death because that is what they are into, but because it is what is popular in their culture. I have to say tho that Alefantis and some of his ilk collect disturbing art that would ONLY appeal to a disturbed mind. I would not show most of that work, because it makes me sick inside. We have one artist who is extremely edgy but he does not feature children, its adult and based on adult sexuality. There are always going to be dark and disturbing references in some art because shock value is something that artists like to do, and because there are a lot of bipolar artists. they think differently than your average person.