Spinello Projects

🗞️[amNY] NADA and the Necessary Electricity of Discovery
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“Esaí Alfredo’s The Necklace from 2026, presented by Spinello Projects out of Miami, moved in yet another direction, with photorealism carrying an almost devotional charge. The work’s majestic, ethereal color application gave realism a strange luminosity, reminding us that technical mastery need not be cold when animated by atmosphere and psychological depth. Photorealism, at its strongest, is not merely a demonstration of skill. It becomes a philosophical trapdoor. The viewer enters through recognition and then finds something more elusive waiting beneath the surface.
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In Alfredo’s hands, reality appears heightened, almost consecrated. The image does not simply reproduce the visible world. It intensifies it. There is a hush in that kind of looking, a sense that the ordinary has been slowed down enough to become ceremonial. The necklace becomes more than adornment. It becomes a point of focus, a charged emblem of intimacy, identity, and attention [...]”
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— written by Avalon Ashley Bellos
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Image I: The Necklace, 2026, Oil on canvas, 30 × 40 inches

💫 Next Week! — Esaí Alfredo at NADA New York — Spinello Projects presents Te Llevo / I Carry You, a solo booth presentation by
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NADA New York
Spinello Projects
Esaí Alfredo
Booth E13
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📍The Starrett-Lehigh Building
601 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
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🥂VIP Preview (by Invitation)
Wednesday, May 13, 10am–4pm
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🗓️Open to the Public
Wednesday, May 13, 4–7pm
Thur-Sat, May 14-16, 11am–7pm
Sunday, May 17, 11am–5pm
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Expanding on his ongoing exploration of memory, belonging, and q***r identity, Alfredo’s latest body of work unfolds as a sequence of intimate, narrative-driven paintings that trace the emotional contours of friendship, love, and departure. Inspired in part by the closing scene of Wicked, in which two protagonists reflect on the lasting impact of their bond before parting, the series draws from the artist’s own experience of migration between Puerto Rico and the United States, where distance and displacement shape the rhythms of connection and farewell. [...]
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Images: The Shooting Star (Luis & Giancarlo), diptych, 2026, Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. each