Devon Costello received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and studied at Stadelschule, Frankfurt, Germany and the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Recent exhibitions include PortugalArte10, Lisbon, Portugal (2010); Time Life part 2, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY (2009); Nobodies New York, curated by Josh Kline, 179 Canal, New York, NY (2009); On From Here, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY (2009); The Station, curated by Nate Lowman and Shamim Momin, Miami, FL (2008); Workspace, Christine Mayer Gallery, Munich, Germany (2008); Accidental Modernism, curated by Christopher Eamon, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, NY (2008); The Incomplete, curated by Manon Slome and Hubert Neumann, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY (2007); Beneath the Underdog, curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (2007); Devon Costello lives and works in New York.
There is a weight to Devon Costello’s work that comes not only from its subject, but also from the alchemy of the abstract and the physical in his pieces. His work requires a meditative examination as he mixes violence, consumerism and religion into beautiful abstraction. Costello produces beautiful surfaces without compromising the physical structure’s integrity and power. With a nod back to the art historical cannon, he is able to create a hybrid of art that fuses the past with an exciting present. By manipulating codified languages, objects are separated from their original and primary contexts and re-contextualized through an act of curation and appropriation.
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