Brooke P. Alexander

Mississippi Fellow for Visual Arts

ARTIST STATEMENT

My paintings linger between reality, illusion, and imagination. They reveal complex relationships hidden among the every day. Through direct observation within spaces I inhabit, and imaginative worlds inspired by literature, my works drift between fact and fiction. The interiors and exteriors in the paintings wander and crook and provide places to run away, hide, and lose yourself. The relationship between figures and animals is never fully resolved as they live together in accord or opposition. Oddities and curiosities within the environments and spaces are apparent not only in their interactions, but in aberrations of place – understood edges become unclear, objects merge with another to become disjointed, and uncertain presences loom and become stranger the longer you look.

ARTIST BIO

Brooke P. Alexander is a painter from Athens, Alabama. She earned her BA in Studio Art with a minor in English from Athens State University in 2015 and her MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting from The University of Mississippi in 2018. Her work, influenced by memory and literature, is primarily painted from life. Alexander has exhibited her work regionally and nationally, including at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art and the Alabama Center for the Arts. She is currently an Instructional Assistant Professor at The University of Mississippi, teaching various studio art courses.