Grounded in a postmodern vernacular, Alben’s paintings and sculptures pastiche historical moments in the development of art including Pop and Classical Art.

Interested in Street Art, the self-taught artist references an array of cultural touchstones in his densely layered, often stencil-sprayed paintings; his allusions include corporate mascots, historical figures, actors, comic book characters, and artists.

His sculptures similarly embrace popular culture, though it is also directly influenced by the work of the French artist Arman, who exhibited commodities as sculptures in the 1960s. Similarly insisting in the fact that popular culture and aesthetic production are linked, Alben inverts Arman’s structure by reimagining touchstones of art history such as the Venus de Milo as a configuration of crushed Coke cans.