My imagery comes from real life experiences, animals, places, tales and memories. I’m inspired by the many mediums which let me create a variety of scenes, from landscapes to flowing shapes. Using and combining acrylic, oil, charcoal, encaustic and printmaking – each evoke a different aspect of the subject for me.
My art allows me to have fun, sometimes to tell a story with all the details, and sometimes to be abstract and play with visual memory.
Downtown Doors
Madison, WI – Summer & Fall 2019
Below the Surface
Brewery Pottery Studio, Mineral Point, WI – June 2019
Art on the Trail
National Ice Age Scenic Trail, Fern Glen Segment, WI – May, 2019
Creatures, Places and Memories
Ballweg Gallery at the Goodman Center, Madison, WI – January 2018
The Art of Grief
Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, Minnesota, November 4 – December 1, 2017
13th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition
Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL, November 11, 2016 – February 18, 2017
59th Annual Beloit & Vicinity Exhibition
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, Wisconsin, May 28 – July 28, 2016
Madison Art Guild Summer Salon, 2nd place award in oils category
University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics, Madison, WI, June, 2016
Madison Art Guild: Centenary
Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin, August – November 9, 2014
Midwest Prairie Review Journal, 2014
Overture Gallery III, Beneath the Surface
Madison, Wisconsin, July 8 – September 15, 2013
Madison Art Guild 100th Anniversary Show
Promega Corporation, Fitchburg, WI, February – December 2013
Madison Art Fair on the Square
Capitol Square, Madison, Wisconsin, July 14 – 15, 2012
Kaleidoscope, Wisconsin Visual Arts
Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, June, 2012
2011 Wisconsin Artists Biennial
Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, WI, June 26 – August 7, 2011
2011 Dane County Calendar, month of January
Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission
Madison, Wisconsin, January, 2009
Madison Art Guild Summer Salon
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI, June – July, 2010
Commonwealth Gallery, Wallpatch
Madison, Wisconsin, October, 2002.
I Due Art 4 You The Fun Show
Chicago, Illinois , September, 1998
Madison Art Center, Art in Bloom
Madison, Wisconsin , May, 1998
The 20th Annual Alfred Outdoor Light Exhibition, Neon & Light
Alfred, New York, May, 1998
University of Wisconsin Invitational Outdoor Exhibition
Madison, Wisconsin , April, 1998
Wisconsin Visual Artists (WVA)
Madison Art Guild (MAG)
American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP)
Kewaunee Academy of Art, Algoma, WI Fall 2011 to Spring 2012
Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin, Art Major, 2007 to 2008
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fine Arts Major, 1997 to 1999
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Master of Science
Urban & Regional Planning, graduated 1994
University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Bachelor of Science
Urban Planning graduated 1991
Born in 1969 and raised in suburban Chicago, Alex now lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she keeps busy as a land use planner and raising a family of twin boys, and an ongoing variety of rescue dogs.