Alteronce Gumby
Alteronce Gumby (1985, Harrisburg, PA) graduated from Yale University’s MFA program in 2016, where he was awarded the Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship and the Austrian American Foundation/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts, after earning a BFA from Hunter College, New York, NY. Gumby’s work focuses on representation of the self and subvert the traditional understanding of light and color through nuanced application of tonal changes directly with the artist’s fingers and hands. Gumby has participated in numerous international artist residencies such as the Rauschenberg Residency (2019), the London Summer Intensive (2016), the Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria (2015), 6Base (2016), and was the 2016 recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship at the Fondation des Étas-Unis in Paris.
Gumby has recently been featured in the exhibition Social Abstraction, curated by Antwuan Sargent at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA. Recent solo exhibitions include Dark Matter at the Allentown Art Museum (2022), The Color of Everything at Nicola Vassell (2022), and It was all A Dream at Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan (2022). He has had solo exhibitions at parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles in 2019 and 2020, as well as a group show in 2024 with Charles Ross. Gumby in represented by Nicola Vassell, New York, NY, and parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles, CA.
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2023
Freedman, Max. “On Discovering What Excites You.” The Creative Independent, May 25, 2023.
Wozniak, Stephen. “The Color Condition: Alteronce Gumby Makes Dark Matter Among Rising Rainbows.” White Hot Magazine, May 2023.
2022
Saye, Nadia. “Alteronce Gumby’s Cosmic Mediations on Color, History, and Lightness.” Surface, 8 February 2022.
2021
Dinsdale, Emily. “Alteronce Gumby’s cosmic landscapes challenge the meaning of colour.” Dazed. September 7, 2021.
Malone, Ian. “The Atomic, Cosmic Art of Alteronce Gumby.” Vogue. March 18, 2021.
White, Katie. “Studio Visit: Artist Alteronce Gumby on His Weekly MoMA Visits, and Why Seeing Great Art is Like Reading a Book.” Artnet News. February 25, 2021.
“Seeing Color: How Alteronce Gumby Explores Identity through Painting and Glass Art.” A3 Magazine, p. 88-93. print.
Dodson, Jewels. “The Artsy Vanguard 2021: Alteronce Gumby.” Artsy, 2021.
Moyer, Carrie. “Alteronce Gumby with Carry Moyer.” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2021.
Trouillot, Terence. “Alteronce Gumby on His Cosmic Abstraction.” Frieze, 23 April 2021.
2020
“20 Painters Who Are Shaping the New Decade.” Daily Collector, January 20, 2020
Cohen, Alina. “11 Emerging Artists Redefining Abstract Painting.” Artsy, January 6, 2020.
Moore, Charles. “Painter Alteronce Gumby Sees Color Differently.” Cultured Magazine, 22 September 2020.
Rodney, Seph. “What Does It Mean to Exhibit “Black Excellence?” Hyperallergic, 2 April 2020.
2019
“7 Impressive Emerging Artist to Watch from the Frieze Week Fairs in London.” Artnet News, October 4, 2019
2018
Cohen, Alina. “What Makes a Monochrome Painting Good.” Artsy, March 2018
2017
Cadet-Diaby, Fatima. “Interview: Alteronce Gumby.” Citeunie, February 18, 2017
”One Piece: There’s a bright side somewhere by Alteronce Gumby.” BOMB, 2017.
2016
Tonguette, Peter. “Artist’s Use of Color, Texture in Clay Stands Out.” The Columbus Dispatch, Sunday, August 14, 2016 pg. f7