Conventional time is a linear and systematic method for cataloging events. It is adopted in accordance with what is generally believed; a stream flowing only in one direction. Travels in BLOCKTIME, a three-dimensional space, contains everything from the past, present and future. Interactions among any of these elements are always occurring and in any direction. Alex Kritselis
ALEXANDER KRITSELIS is a multidisciplinary artist born in Athens, Greece. He was trained as a sculptor at the Academy of Athens and attended graduate school at the Hornsey College of Art in London, England where he received his MFA in Sculpture and Painting. With a scholarship from the Greek Academy of Arts and Sciences he continued postgraduate studies in sculpture at the Academia Della Belli Arti in Florence, Italy.
In the early 1970’s, following his desire to be a part of the discourse surrounding contemporary issues in the visual arts, he moved to the United States. Since that time, Kritselis has exhibited his work and taught on the undergraduate and graduate levels for private and public institutions in California, Texas and Massachusetts, including Otis College of Art and Design (CA), Pomona College (CA), Claremont Graduate University (CA), Pasadena City College (CA), Texas University (TX). He served as Dean of the Visual Arts and Media Studies Division at Pasadena City College from 2002 to 2012. He also served on the Board of the Armory Center for the Arts (CA) and has been instrumental in bringing Pasadena City College into the cultural fabric of Los Angeles.
Kritselis has exhibited nationally and internationally in more than 25 solo and 50 invitational exhibitions including the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; Alabama Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; Armory Northwest Center For The Arts, Pasadena, CA; Brand Library Art Gallery Glendale, CA; Corpus Christi Museum Of Art Corpus Christi, TX; Dallas Museum Of Fine Arts Dallas, TX; Grand Palais Des Champs-Elysees Paris, France; Inland Empire Museum of Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA; Laguna Gloria Museum Austin, TX; Laredo Museum Of Fine Arts Laredo, TX; Pasadena Museum Of California Art Pasadena, CA; and Zapion Megaron, Ministry Of Culture, Athens, Greece.
His work is in several collections including the Voreas Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Texas University, San Marcos, TX; Academy of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece; and the Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA.
Over a career spanning fifty years Kritselis has created and exhibited hundreds of paintings and sculptures, as well as numerous private and public site-specific installations, video presentations, and mixed media works, often collaborating with his wife, cinematographer Joey Forsyte.
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BELOW: Video of a studio conversation with curator Betty Brown in 2011
