The Artist Profile Archive: Alexandra Grant

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Learn about Alexandra Grant in our new film and discover how she uses text and language to explore themes that are literary, social, political and feminist.
Los Angeles-based artist, Alexandra Grant, explores language, narrative, and the written word through images and text in a wide array of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, installation, social systems, and photography. Born in Ohio, she spent much of her childhood outside of the U.S., in Mexico, France, and Spain, which has contributed to the unique linguistic and cultural flexibility she applies to her practice. In large-scale works on paper and panels, Grant’s pictorial structure orbits a central theme in which literature and abstraction coalesce, pull apart, and reconfigure in densely layered compositions. Wresting words and phrases from literary texts, Grant embeds textual information within painterly fields of color pools, spatters, and linear tectonics. Her use of mirror-writing, or backward text, is effective in creating a pictorial and analytical dissonance that invites discovery and contemplation.