Alteronce Gumby

(Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1985 - )

American

Alteronce Gumby’s large-scale, abstract paintings revel in light and color, their luminosity enhanced by pieces of tempered glass and gemstone applied to their surfaces in intricate patterns. Inspired by Sir Isaac Newton’s experiments with glass prisms to reveal the color spectrum, Gumby is fascinated with the human inclination to assign meaning to different colors.In Gumby’s work color refers to both never-ending, world-making possibilities and its earthly limitations due to racial categorization and segregation.Gumby finds inspiration in the cosmos, occasionally observing with the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York City and participating as a member of the Planetary Society. His works are also connected to themes like race, identity, and history, and he has drawn inspiration from artists such as Jack Whitten, Stanley Whitney, and Sam Gilliam. 
Gumby has taken drawing classes at the Art Students League in New York City, earned his associate degree from Dutchess Community College and his BFA from Hunter College. He received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2016 from the Yale School of Art. Gumby has also participated in numerous international artist residencies, such as the Rauschenberg Residency (2019), London Summer Intensive (2016), 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’s artwork is in the permanent collections of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, PA, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

The Bronx, New York

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