Alexis
Lee

Alexis Lee is an American painter and sculptor who explores the collective and personal unconscious through contemporary mythology and folklore. Pursuing unique iterations of the universal narrative, she studies archetypes and symbols in diverse cultures of storytelling to develop and re-shape the landscape of Chaos, the void before creation, transforming it into the private abyss of the unconscious, buried in our bodies like memory. The figures that wander this predatory plane are violently abbreviated or anatomically outrageous, capturing the spectral imprints of the human conditions as they work to overcome their vessels.

Her work emerges through exposed layers of process, using gesture and resistance to form lines of destruction that collapse order and trace the mind losing its way. The markings passionately tell stories of their creation and of bodies caught in the act of becoming.

She received her BFA from Cornell University (2014, Ithaca, NY) and her MA from the Royal College of Art (London, 2020).