The painting features a vibrant, larger-than-life female figure at the center, rendered in a striking blend of warm and cool tones. The composition is dynamic, with the figure's pose and the surrounding abstract elements creating a sense of movement and energy. The artist employs bold, expressive brushstrokes and a vivid color palette, which contribute to the artwork's contemporary and visually arresting style. The figure's confident and empowered presence suggests a celebration of the female form, reflecting the artist's intention to challenge conventional representations and promote a more inclusive and empowering perspective. ...
Through oil painting and graphite drawings inhabited by real and surreal figures, Alexa Hawksworth captures a wide variety of natures, both physical and psychological. Her characters have rictus grins, limbs that stretch and bend in unnatural ways, bordering on the comical and grotesque. Her paintings exist in their own temporality, a parallel world where forms are elongated, thrown, and twisted across the canvas. There are different rules in Hawksworth’s reality; our understanding of physics and the natural order of things does not exist there. Her fantastical and unreal compositions capture deep emotional states and desires, erupting from the canvas through vibrant color palettes. While her paintings exist in a world unlike our own, we can see our own depth of feeling reflected back at us. Her influences range from theater, performance, and film, and she generates carefully constructed scenes with immense detail and bold paint strokes, displaying an incredible understanding of color and mood. ...
