Urban Flux Exhibition

About Artist  
Form & Void is the creative hub of Cuban-American artist and designer Alfredo Montané Reyes, known professionally as DASH. He is recognized for large scale Minimalist paintings, and is distinguished as one of the premier Graffiti stylists expanding into the Contemporary space.

His practice is driven by the psychology of “perception and intent”, and the dichotomy of opposing principles. He is considered a conceptual painter and balances various bodies of work, producing series contextualized by the intersections in his trajectory from artistic vandal, to creative professional, and ultimately contemporary painter.

Harnessing the intimate relationship between written language and the illustrated word, he examines how visual messages are imposed on, positioned in, and experienced in the built environment. His work is characterized by an interest in spatial analysis, linear exploration and the sensibility of architectural order. He employs a reductive formalism that articulates the coordinate plane through proportion, frequency, and contrast.

Dash’s process is manual and mechanical, some pieces are completely concrete, while others are organic and radiate the luminous quality that Baroque glazes create over a varnished grisaille.

His work, meditative and transformative, functions as a modern Lingua Franca and conveys the urban vernacular with an imbued thereness that engages one’s sense of self, place and time.

Selected Exhibitions
Solo/ Duo Exhibitions
- 2019 Lingua Franca - Galerie Zimmerling & Jungfleisch/ Saarbrücken, Germany
- 2014 Foreign Currency – Pavillion Bleu / Geneva, Switzerland
- 1999 Style is King – Blaa / Oslo, Norway Group Exhibitions
- 2020 Style Masters  – Museum Of Graffiti / Miami, Florida
- 2019 From Here To There  – Arcade Art Gallery / Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 2018 Echoes – Galerie Zimmerling & Jungfleisch / Saarbrücken, Germany
- 2018 Extrait – Galerie Zimmerling & Jungfleisch / Paris, France
- 2016 Vandalizing Pratt – Pratt Manhattan Gallery / New York City, NY
- 2015 Chromaticity – Artgang / Montreal, CanadaDos Boriquas Un Cubano – Art D’ Chocolat / San Juan, Puerto Rico
- 2012 New York City Kings – Rtist Gallery / Melbourne, Australia
- 2010 The Art of Basketball – Public Works Gallery / Miami, FLRevolutions – Crewest Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
- 2009 Le Tag au Grand Palais – Palais deTokyo / Paris, FranceTC5 Official 30th Anniversary Show – Underground / Montreal, CA
- 2007 The Walls Belong to Us – Power House Arena / Brooklyn, NYDo The Roc – Rocawear at Magic Show / Las Vegas, NV

Group Exhibitions
- 2004 Subway Series: The New York Yankees and the American Dream – Bronx Museum of the Arts / Bronx, NYMontana Writer Team – Halle 02 / Heidelberg, Germany
- 1989 Urban Scrawl: A Celebration of Aerosol Art – Altamira Gallery / Miami Beach, FL

PUBLIC WORKS
- 2010 Roger Waters The Wall 2010 / New York, NY
- 2005 Marc Ecko Getting Up Block Party – New York, NYMarc Ecko Getting Up Festival by Solo Mobile – Toronto, Canada
- 2003 Curiously Strong Wall of Fame – Altoids Mural Project / Wynwood Miami, FLFree Culture – Mural at Rikers Island Prison, NY

SELECTED BOOKS
- Miami Graffiti Art, H. Love, Schiffer Publishing, 2014
- Hall of Fame: New York City, Alain Maridueña, On The Run Books, 2012
- The History of American Graffiti, Roger Gastman/Caleb Neelon Harper Collins, 2011
- KAWS, Monica Ramirez-Montagut (Author), Germano Celant (Contributor) Rizzoli, 2010
- Graffiti New York, Eric Felisbret, Abrams, 2009
- Miami Graffiti, James and Karla Murray, Prestel, 2009
- Mascots & Mugs, Todd James and Chino Villorente, Testify Books, 2007
- The Book of Tags, Drop Drop Agency, Kitchen 93, 2006
- Burning New York, James and Karla Murray, Ginko Press 2006
- Montana Writer Team: Graffiti at its Best, Publikat, 2006
- Disruptive Pattern Material, Maharishi Press, 2004
- Broken Windows, James and Karla Murray, Ginko Press, 2002

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Art Talk: Hoop Scoop – Art News, 2011
- Art on Rikers Island – Time Out New York, 2003
- Around Town – Time Out New York, 2002
- Children On Dust – Made / Vancouver, Canada, 2002
- The Knights of Subway – Beikoku Magazine / Osaka, Japan, 2002
- Bonni’s Pool – South Florida Magazine, Miami, FL 1988

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
- “5 Sides of a Coin” as himself, Dir: Paul Kell, The Anomally Collective, 2003
- “New Jersey Drive” Scenic Painting, Dir: Nick Gomez, A 40 Acres and a Mule Production, 1995
- “Clockers” Scenic Painting, Dir: Spike Lee, A 40 acres and a Mule/Universal Production, 1995