Alexandra Finkelchtein — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Education:
09.2010-04.2012 MFA from New York Academy of Arts, New York, NY, US
01.2008-08.2010 BFA in Art History and Studio Arts from Concordia University,
Montreal, Qc, Canada
Most of the shows bellow are reflected on in the Internet by host-organizers and can be easily verified if ‘google’ my name.
Selected All-juried Exhibitions:
2020 Visual Art Open, UK
2020 Show Contemporary Art Room, UK
2020 Art Prize UK Finalist
2020 Armory Show with see.me NY, NY, US
2019 III Bienalle of Badcelona at MEAM Museum, Spain
2019 NY ARTEXPO with London Inc.US
May-august 2018 Arabesque:Contemporary Conversation by Albin Polasek Musem and sculpture Garden, Winter Park, FL, US
April 2018 Art Expo New York 2018 International Art Events of London, UK Pier 94, Booth232
March 2018 Armory Artweeks Artbox Gallery of Zug, Switzerlend, NYC, NY, US
February 2018 This Is My Era by Donut Hole Gallery, Japan
January-February 2018 Portrait Exhibition 2018 by CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Gyenggi-do, Korea
June 2017 Summer Exhibition at Flowers NY Gallery , NY, NY, US

Artist Statement

The artist's agency manifests through unique artistic approach. In order to create that we deconstruct the original representation and render the new one: for this body of works I step away from conventional materials in favor of my long relation with tin foil, ink, and later discovered acrylic surface. The other player involved was mosaic method which I changed to collage.
Tin foil particularly close, I investigated it from my early childhood collecting various colors and smells, because they all were from candy wrapping. Thus, this material has an history! It also tended wrinkle despite me effort to preserve it integrity. At this method I turned tin foil to great wrinkling, as I found wrinkling is beautiful and creates texture, and reflects light from every direction.
The subject of the work is running, that embedded so much in our psyche; we run for health, socializing, run when we running late, running from someone or to someone, running as playing and running where life depends on it.The others subject are all iconic images.

What first prompted you to think of becoming an artist?

One of my earliest memory, at the age of four is drawing with my mother and older brother, so I was born and became an artist practically at the same time. However, long before I became a Fine Art artist, I worked in graphic arts, that is why graphical tendency is visible in my methods, and my main research is abut linear patterns.

What kind of an artist do you ultimately see yourself?

I see myself as visionary, and also technically unique, for I created ten creative methods based on one formula line- color, but because each style employs different linear pattern all approaches have distinct appearance. Moreover it can be applied to 2D and 3D works.

What are you hoping to communicate to the viewer through your work?

First of all, I bring to viewers different style to entertain them, and then through that let them into my intellectual domain where familiar things represented in unknown way. Hoping to open the door of their creativity, because that what the good art does – inspire thinking.

Can you explain the process of creating your work?

At the very beginning I was certain that there is an unique style of my own, and I find it in my mind. Art started for my as drawing line and keeping thinking about it brought me to realization that painting surface can be tessellated by linear pattern. Therefore, intellectual part is more defining. However, as I make my body of work, I start to see the next turn in the process,

What is your favourite part of the creative process?

The happiest moment is the Eureka moment – it lifts me above the ground, connects me to universal mind, abstracts me from mandane.