Romeo Alaeff

Romeo Alaeff
Romeo Alaeff
Born 1970
Brooklyn, New York
Nationality American
Education Tulane University,
Rhode Island School Design (RISD)
Known for Animation and Fine Art
Style conceptual graffiti/street art (for paintings)
Website http://www.romeoalaeff.com

Romeo Doron Alaeff (1970)[1] born in Brooklyn, New York, he is an American animation editor and writer, author as well as a fine art painter and photographer.[2] He is best known for his work on the American animated children's television program Dora the Explorer.

Career

Education

Alaeff received a Master of Fine Arts in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996 and a BA from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1993.

Art

Romeo Alaeff's art work has been described as "blur[ring] the boundaries between icon and art, funny and serious, traditional and experimental, public and private".[2] His artwork is very illustrative and his projects "explore the experience of inhabiting liminal zones, those architectural spaces, psychological and physical states in which contradictions collide." Alaeff often approaches his work with a sardonic or dark sense of humor such as in his project The Evolution of Despair which consists of a series of detailed drawings of animals expressing human thoughts and emotions.

Some of Alaeff's work doesn't employ humor directly but is still trained on social, psychological or philosophical observations, such as bias in perception in his War on the Brain series, choice in The Tyranny of Small Decisions, or in Crybaby, the act of crying as a manipulative device in human discourse as well as in filmmaking. In this project, Alaeff asked different musicians such as Chi2 Strings and Moby to score the same 4 minute video of a young girl crying which was then played in a loop such that each viewer had a different experience of the piece such as "pathos, anxiety, pity and, in our attempt to give meaning to such seemingly unmediated emotion, an imagined internal narrative of heartbreak at the end of summer or an accident on the highway." As a whole Alaeff's work is meant to be interactive, speaking directly or indirectly to the viewer or allowing one's biases and projections to become part of the work.

Bibliography

His book, I'll be dead by the time you read this: The Existential Life of Animals[3] is a continuation of this body of work.[4] A sticker campaign was also launched from the original Evolution of Despair drawings and is featured in the book and exhibition tour, Stuck-up Piece of Crap: Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art.[5]

Animation

Romeo Alaeff has also worked as a writer, animation/animatic editor and film editor for several award winning children's TV shows. His credits include:

Exhibitions

Alaeff's work has exhibited nationally and internationally and has appealed to a wide range of audiences for both artistic as well as cultural interest. His work was exhibited in the 2001 Biennale in Lyon (France), Artists Space (NYC), the Kunsthal (Rotterdam), the Witte de With in conjunction w/ John Baldessari at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA, Barcelona), The Dallas Museum of Art and Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain (Paris).

His work has found considerable interest with non-art audiences as well and has been included in the curriculum for Emory University’s, The Displaced Person, Literature Beyond the Canon, The University of Texas at Austin’s American Studies: Religion and Society in American Literature, and Georgia State University’s Graduate Educational Psychology Course.

In addition, he has been a guest artist, critic and teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, Pratt Institute, Parsons The New School for Design, The University of Georgia and Georgia State University.

References

  1. ↑ "Romeo Doron Alaeff Art auctions results". www.artprice.com. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
  2. 1 2 "Romeo Alaeff shows us his tapeworm". Gopher Illustrated. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
  3. ↑ Plume/Penguin Group, 2011
  4. ↑ Alaeff, Romeo (2011-11-29). I'll Be Dead by the Time You Read This: The Existential Life of Animals. New York: Plume. ISBN 9780452297456.
  5. ↑ Burkeman, D. B.; LoCascio, Monica; Fairey, Shepard; McCormick, Carlo (2010-10-05). Stickers: Stuck-Up Piece of Crap: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art. Rizzoli. ISBN 9780789320810.
  6. ↑ "Romeo Alaeff". IMDb. Retrieved 2015-12-17.

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