December 7 - 29, 2019
Co·in·ci·dan·cing /kōˈinsəˈdansiNG/ v. the act of strategically maneuvering through tangentially linked events or happenstances in a linear, linked, winding path to weave myriad influences and stimuli unlikely to have been come across or occurred intentionally.
This made up word is the only word that properly embodies her process. She works with whatever enters her environment. Most of her pieces are determined by the found materials that she comes across, materials that give off an intriguing illusion.
Alexandra is a Venezuelan-American interdisciplinary abstract installation artist with a BFA in Sculpture and in the process of completing a minor in Psychology at the University of Houston. She draws inspiration from Latin abstract expressionist artists such as Carlos Cruz-Diez, Jesus Soto, Antonio Asis, and Martha Boto—because of their exploration of light and color in space and how they relate to the viewer. Alexandra takes this exploration further to find the therapeutic benefit of creating an immersive space or stand alone sculpture that plays with the interrelations of movement, light, space, and color. Alexandra uses her art as a way to explain her brain, and attempt to make human connections through her works. Her interactive work is a conversation between comfort and unease, she offers an invitation to the viewer to enter a space both physically and mentally. Her work has made her have to think about color very deeply. What the different colors mean, what they do to the viewers brain, how they interact, how they complement each other, clash, or the effect that a color has on the psyche. Because color has that power, to alter a mood, set a mood, and create an ambient space. Red can mean anger, rage, or love and passion. Green can be envy, poison or represent nature. Through the use of color and patterns she exemplifies the alter-ability of perception. How there is even a color when its opposite is absent, how some colors are a result of the combination of others and how the perception of colors can be manipulated with illusion. She decided to spelunk in the cavern of this notion with the use the moire pattern wherein she created an opportunity for viewers to perceive and engage with an environment constructed of illusions—just as the environments we find ourselves embedded within are often constructed, at least in part, of illusions. Delving into the world of anxiety and human connection through geometry, illusion, perception, and art therapy, as well as being a person who deals with severe anxiety every day, she refers to her works as Therapeutic Tools—tools either for the viewer or for herself. Her work is a result of her coincidancing through a wide range of material use and content. Co·in·ci·dan·cing /kōˈinsəˈdansiNG/ v. the act of strategically maneuvering through tangentially linked events or happenstances in a linear, linked, winding path to weave myriad influences and stimuli unlikely to have been come across or occurred intentionally.
This made up word is the only word that properly embodies her process. She works with whatever enters her environment. Most of her pieces are determined by the found materials that she comes across, materials that give off an intriguing illusion.
Opening: December 7, 2019 | 6–8 pm
G Spot Contemporary Art Space (Old Location)
310 East 9th Street
Houston, 77008 Texas
713-869-4770
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