Alex Abbott

Lives and works in Austin, TX, USA

Artist statement

Born and raised near Houston, Texas, Alex Abbott graduated from the University of North Texas in 2001 with a B.A. in Visual Art. A south Austin resident for over 20 years, and mother of two, Alex’s artistic endeavors have included jewelry design and fabrication using lost wax casting, mural painting, and illustration. In the summer of 2021 she began her work as a full time painter. Through her body of work she shares her personal experience as a Gen X, Texan woman, overcoming crisis and loss through self expression. Primarily a self taught painter, Alex's signature style includes hyper focus, bold color, and surrealism. Her paintings illustrate her life story and nostalgia in a rapidly changing world. She invites the viewer to explore the juxtaposition of present and past, growth and decay, dream and reality through her collage-like compositions. When faced with the exaggerated changes in myself, my community, my family, and the world over the past ten years I am left with a desire to escape. Each painting is my opportunity to further understand myself and my place in the world. In the middle decade of my life, I feel urgency to express the emotions linked to core memories, passions once forgotten, irrepressible grief, and enduring love that makes up my experience. My paintings are ‘memories’ of things that never actually existed, they are the memories of childhood hopes that such things could exist. My paintings are windows into worlds with more beauty, freedom, magic and...

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