Alexandra Spyratos
BACK TO THE ROOTS
26th-30th May 2010
Alexandra was born in Kenya and it is here she lived most of her life surrounded by the exotic beauty and wilderness of Africa.
Alexandra paints African wildlife and is known especially for her flamboyant oil paintings of the zebra. Over the years she has developed an unusual unique contemporary decorative style, bold, and textured. With 22 solo exhibitions on her port folio, Alexandra has shown her work internationally; including shows in New York, Miami, Milan, Kenya, Sydney and Hong Kong.
Her medium; though predominantly oil on canvas, now sees an inspired branch into mixed media working with gold and silver leaf and fluorescent acrylic, adding a new and energetic dimension to her art creating a 3D effect, under black light and bringing on a new and exciting era to her work.
In addition to her oil paintings, Alexandra also extends her decorative style to produce large and beautiful murals; colour inspiring and fun.
After two decades of promoting her work around the world, Alexandra returns to her art roots of South Melbourn; where she lived and worked in the 80’s when she first came to Australia from Africa. It was here she staged her first exhibition in 1982 at the Seal Gallery in Albert Park. For Alexandra this is a nostalgic return. Recently returning from two successfull exhibitions in Kenya, Alexandra will be bringing us new work; still wet to touch, and painting a large canvas in the gallery from Wednesday 26th may to Sunday 30th May.
Please come in and meet the artist and view her work in progress.
Below is a you tube clip of the artist and her paintings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y7O7qWJiWk&feature=player_embedded
The painter Alexandra Spyratos has travelled to many parts of the world; from Indonesia to Europe, from Japan to Australia and Africa. In all these journeys across the most diverse countries and continents, this nomadic artist has seen and studied colour in all its territorial changes and expressive possibilities, and it has become a basic part of her artistic research.
Her works have to be placed in that area of lyrical abstractions that runs from Kandinsky to Dorazio; the form of things, though having a strictly figurative aim, is essentially geometric and two dimensional. The fields of colour are all filtered by a naturalistic expressive urgency. Her poetic world seems veiled by a cool mental vision and, by way of a distilled personal inventiveness, orchestrates a chromatic symphony similar to the sensibility of postmodern aesthetics.
Her medium; predominantly oil on canvas, now sees an inspired branch out into mixed media working with gold leaf and fluorescent acrylic. This adds a new and energetic dimension to her art creating a 3D effect with black light and bringing on a new and exciting era to her work.
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Art Fusion Gallery, Design District, Miami
2007 Cape Gallery, Byron Bay, Australia
2007 Malindi Casino, Malindi, Kenya
2007 ReedSavage Gallery, Coral Gables, Miami
2007 Hong Kong "The Cat Street Gallery"
2007 Kenya "Malindi Casino"
2006 Agora gallery, Chelsea, New York
2006 Lurie Fine Art galleries, Miami
2005 Rushcutter’s Bay Gallery, Sydney
2005 Art Collection’s Gallery, Surfer’s Paradise
2004 Peponi, Lamu Island, Kenya
2004 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney
2003 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney
2001 Malindi Casino, Malindi, Kenya
2000 Galleria Biciclette, Milan, Italy
1999 Alliance Francais, Kampala, Uganda
1999 Compagnia Generale dei Viaggiatori Naviganti e Sognatori,Milan,Italy
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