Carl D’Alvia received a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987 and splits his time between Connecticut and New York City. He works in a sculptural idiom that is decidedly hyper-visual, artisanal and history laden. He has developed proprietary sculptural processes that co-opt existing means of traditional and industrial production. Drawing on sources that include megalithic monuments, toy design and the Baroque, the work encapsulates seemingly antithetical motifs such as minimal/ornate, industrial/handmade, comic/tragic, progress/destruction and attraction/repulsion. He has had recent solo shows at Hesse Flatow in New York and Galerie Hussenot in Paris as well as previous solo shows at Nathalie Karg Gallery and Regina Rex in New York, Galerie Papillon, Mulherin + Pollard and Derek Eller Gallery. His work has appeared in group exhibitions at numerous galleries including: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Mother Gallery, Grimm Gallery, Anton Kern Gallery, Jeff Bailey Gallery, The Hole, Regina Rex, The Journal Gallery, The Yerba Buena Art Center, The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Feature Inc., and White columns. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Flash Art, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Boston Globe, Time Out and the Village Voice. He also taught sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and served as a guest lecturer and critic at the Rome Programs of the Rhode Island School of Design, Cornell, and Temple University. He was awarded the Rome Prize for Visual Arts for 2012-2013 from the American Academy in Rome.