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Alex Hubbard

Alex Hubbard (b. 1975, Tolego, Oregon) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work encompasses video art and painting, exploring the boundaries of each via a cross-examination that invigorates both media in new and inventive ways. Constructed along parallel lines, his videos and paintings explore composition, mass, colour and depth of images in unexpected ways. Avoiding a single point of focus, Hubbard constructs his videos in layers, engulfing the viewer with bold colours, performative gestures and evolving, all-over compositions in which movement is multi-directional and time appears to be non-linear. Often described as 'moving paintings', the videos are a record of physical creation and destruction, with the hand of the artist tangible, and sometimes visible, in the frame.

In counterpoint to the videos, Hubbard’s paintings often suggest a mechanical means of production. Fields of colour in fibreglass and resin are interrupted with richly pooled, dripped and poured paint. Working with fast-drying materials, such as epoxy and latex, the artist is forced to act quickly, embracing chance happenings and revelling in the autonomy of his chosen media. Such anti-hierarchical materials and techniques provide a corollary to the DIY aesthetic of the video works. And through this deconstruction every traditional opposition of the formal language of painting is opened up: fig

Early Career & Nickname Origin '''Alex is known in the art and cookie jar collecting communities as "Spaceman." Over the years, Hubbard has avoided discussing the derivation of this moniker. However, it has been noted that Alex was four and a half hours late to his first solo exhibition, arriving an hour after the gallery closed, leading some to believe that he was dubbed "Spaceman" after forgetting about his first solo show. Another belief is that Hubbard was given the name after legendary artist, David Hockney, once complained that Alex was talking too close to his face at an art event and shouted, "Some space, man!" Leading those around him to start referring to Hubbard as the "Spaceman."  Personal Life''' '''Alex lives with another person named Alex and their two kids in Los Angeles, CA. Hubbard is thought to be a mediocre neighbor who consistently fails to offer fresh baked goods to those closest to him. '''