Carl D’Alvia

Thomas Park is excited to present Your Bird is True, Carl D'Alvia's first solo exhibition with the gallery. This exhibition also marks the first time his work has been introduced to Korean viewers. For this exhibition, D’Alvia investigated the theme of the bird, a distinctive motif in art history from ancient times to modern sculpture, often embodying complex and layered ideas ranging from spirituality and transcendence to freedom, identity, and the human condition. D’Alvia's work is rooted in a sculptural style that is highly visual, artisanal, and rich in historical references. He has developed unique sculptural techniques that blend traditional and industrial production methods. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as megalithic monuments, toy design, and the Baroque, his work navigates between two ends: abstraction and figuration, industrial and handmade, comic and tragic, and attraction and repulsion.

Carl D’Alvia, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, has shown internationally. He has had recent solo shows at Hesse Flatow in New York and Galerie Hussenot in Paris, as well as previous solo shows at Nathalie Karg Gallery and Regina Rex in New York, Galerie Papillon, Mulherin + Pollard, and Derek Eller Gallery. His work has appeared in group exhibitions at numerous galleries, including The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Mother Gallery, Grimm Gallery, Anton Kern Gallery, Jeff Bailey Gallery, The Hole, Regina Rex, The Journal Gallery, The Yerba Buena Art Center, The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Feature Inc., and White columns.

His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Flash Art, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Boston Globe, Time Out and the Village Voice. He also taught sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and served as a guest lecturer and critic at the Rome Programs of the Rhode Island School of Design, Cornell, and Temple University. He was awarded the Rome Prize for Visual Arts for 2012-2013 from the American Academy in Rome.