Alexandra Metcalf

b. 1992

Alexandra Metcalf grew up between London and Florida, and currently lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London and Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.

Metcalf works across painting and sculpture, reinterpreting the history of gendered labor through antiquated ornamental traditions. She considers the way historic counter-culture movements shape aesthetics. The intense patterns and coloring of her paintings representing domestic landscapes that are full of anxiety and populated by hysteric women. She mythologizes a dramatic descent into madness through exaggerated, yet self-aware images related to historically established notions of femininity.

Metcalf’s works have recently been exhibited at Capitain Petzel, Berlin; 15 Orient, New York; Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich; Champ Lacombe, Biarritz; Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris; LOMEX, New York and Ginny on Frederick, London. Her work is held in The Museum of Modern Art Library
Collection, New York; The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence and The Perimeter, London.

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