Alex is an artist and art educator living and working in Astoria, Queens. As a maker, she is interested in human relationships with time and the consideration of the studio practice as an anti-capitalist, autonomous opportunity for a different type of “work,” a way of passing time by working with ones hands.

Her paintings and drawings aim to document and describe perceptions of time as lived experience, through color, shape, line, form, rhythm, and movement. Her works play with these visual elements in order to create a sense of time travel, evoking a particular memory or an intangible feeling of nostalgia. Using collage and sketching practices to inform larger works, she maps out her own visual language, one that considers how we relate to time as both linear and measurable and time as shapeshifting and transcendental.

This artistic practice helps to inform and is happily reimagined on a regular basis by her work as a teaching artist in New York City.