Alex Israel
b. 1982
Alex Israel is an American multimedia artist, writer, and designer from Los Angeles. He received his BA from Yale University in 2003, and his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2010.
Israel is best known for his large, colorful airbrushed paintings of abstract gradients and Los Angeles skies, his self-portraits, painted on shaped fiberglass panels and multimedia installations constructed from movie-house props. His practice explores and embraces pop culture as a global visual language.
