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"""Evidence for Contact documents Grimes' never-ending exploration for their existence. Creating his personal mythology using references taken from astronomy, science-fiction iconography and pop culture, Grimes seeks hidden messages to decode how life on our planet is influenced and shaped by such visitors."" - PRINT Mag, 2023 ""Evidence for Contact moves briskly through Grimes's voluminous output of 21st-century work. A few themes emerge: grids, which he fills with black gesso for landscapes that recall a crossword puzzle's prompt for answers, the fiddly formations of Tetris, and early digital animation; binary code, whose zeroes and ones form both ominous data fields and friendly living figures; and an interest in portraiture that appears less about capturing some ""truth"" of the subject and more about amassing a community of fellow travelers. Asserting the presence of believers in his paintings is also urgent."" - Surface Mag, 2023 ""The work of Ken Grimes is a fantastical premonitory of a possible road art could take, reaching into an uncertain future where looking into the sky in search of alien friends can prove a contemplative but also productive way to engage thoughts about our purpose and place in the universe. The clear, vivid black and white imagery Grimes develops, speaks both the language of hope and excitement about what is yet to come, but also of peace of knowing that this future could be perhaps shared with friends from a galaxy far, far away."" - Widewalls, 2023"

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Ken Grimes is an American artist from Cheshire, Connecticut. Having been interested in extraterrestrial life from a young age, he has dedicated his long career to exploring alien and galactic symbols and imagery. In 2013 he received a Wynn Newhouse Award, and his work is in permanent collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the American Folk Art Museum, among others. Seth Shostak is an astronomer from Arlington County, Virginia. Having been interested in space and the possibility of extraterrestrial life from a young age, he received degrees in physics and astrophysics at Princeton and California Institute of Technology. Shostak has contributed to four books, has spent a large portion of his career in public outreach and education, and now serves as a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, the non-profit research institution dedicated to the study and understanding of life in the universe. Alejandra Russi is a writer from Bogotá, Colombia. After graduating from Universidad de Los Andes with a B.A. in Literature, she attended Columbia University and received degrees in both Magazine Journalism and in Arts and Culture Journalism. Having worked as a freelance journalist for five years, Alejandra is now the director of media and digital exhibitions at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York City. Frank Maresca was born and raised in New York City, where he learned about the art scene from an early age. He eventually studied at both FIT and the Pratt Institute. In his early twenties, he worked as a photojournalist for Time and Life magazines, eventually opening his own studio-specializing in fashion and beauty photography. During this time, Frank developed an interest in self-taught, ""outsider,"" and folk art, which led him to co-found Ricco/Maresca gallery in 1979, a space that showcases work by artists working outside the mainstream of art history.

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