FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Iowa Metropolis, Iowa, USA. Portray is the perfect language Alexandra Ackerman has discovered to precise the curiosity and surprise she feels to be alive and awake on our wonderful planet. A lot of her imagery comes from her lifelong reference to the life cycle of crops by means of gardening, farming, and commentary of the completely different landscapes she has visited. Her work seeks to bridge the hole between abstraction and illustration. She is at all times striving to stability the roles of mother-creator and artist-creator. Throughout the pandemic she shifted her focus from watercolor to acrylic and blended media. She started gluing material scraps onto wooden panels, and portray round and over them. Reducing and gluing felt therapeutic in a time of utmost uncertainty. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full coloration, print journal, exists to indicate how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new pondering. To grasp collage is to reshape one’s pondering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.