The artwork features a striking combination of soft, pastel hues and bold, contrasting shapes. The central focus is a large, draped form that dominates the composition, evoking a sense of mystery and intrigue. The smooth, billowing fabric creates a sense of movement and fluidity, while the dark, angular shapes surrounding it provide a strong counterpoint. The overall style suggests a surreal and dreamlike quality, with the artist employing distinctive techniques to create a captivating, abstract visual experience. This work likely reflects the artist's exploration of themes related to the human experience, identity, and the relationship between the physical and the ethereal. ...
Alex Gardner (b.1987, Los Angeles, USA) is a figure painter working in acrylic to make intense and memorable scenes. He finds meaning, artistic and emotional value in the human figure, which he depicts in a minimalist manner, often through a powerful contrast between the dark skin and white clothing, with no environment to reveal a certain context but rather a mood, inspired by real life experiences.
Alex’s paintings have a cold, surreal feeling upon first glance but as one engages the work further, the caring hand, the gentle embrace, and the smooth caress become equally apparent. The bodies are youthfully slender, sensually sleek, and mysteriously beautiful with the omission of facial features furthering the notion of a universal human experience.
The artist currently lives and work in Long Beach, California. ...
MOU PROJECTS (formerly known as MINE PROJECT) is a Hong Kong-based contemporary art gallery established in 2019. Since its inception, the gallery has been dedicated to showcase both local and international emerging artists working in all media and has held many of their first solo exhibitions in Hong Kong as well as in Asia. With an aim to facilitate artistic dialogues and conceptual innovations, the gallery supports artists whose experimental practices and boundary-pushing ethos reflect the current social reality and manifest an alternative contemporary aesthetics. ...
