Alteronce Gumby
Alteronce Gumby (1985, Harrisburg, PA) graduated from Yale University’s MFA program where he was awarded the Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship after earning a BFA from Hunter College, New York, NY. In 2019, he was a resident at the Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva Island, Florida and, in 2017, he completed a year-long residency as the Harriet Hale Woolley scholar at the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris, France. Gumby’s paintings focus 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. He was granted the AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts as well as the Dumfries House Residency, Ayrshire, Scotland in 2015. Gumby has recently been featured in solo exhibitions at Long Gallery, New York, NY and the Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris, France. He has had solo exhibitions at Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles in 2019 and 2020.
Select Works
Select Exhibitions
Alteronce Gumby: Dark Matter, Allentown Art Museum, PA
October 27 - April 9, 2023
The Color of Everything, Nicola Vasell, New York, NY
September 8 - October 22, 2022
Somewhere Under the Rainbow/The Sky is Blue and What Am I, Charles Moffett, New York, NY & False Flag, New York, NY
March 18 - April 25, 2021
There’s There There, curated by Rashid Johnson, Hauser & Wirth, Southampton, NY
May 29 - June 27, 2021
When the Nightmare Comes - I Believe. Long Gallery, Harlem, NY.
June 19 - August 16, 2020
Select Press
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