Rooted in a practice that moves fluidly between drawing, painting, and textiles, Alexandria Coe distills the human form into gestures of clarity and emotional resonance. For the past seven years, she has explored the body as both structure and sensation, paring it down to essential lines that reveal presence without ornament. Often working from life, Coe turns to the figure not to reproduce the traditional “nude,” laden with symbolic and cultural weight, but to reclaim nakedness as something unguarded, honest, and free from imposed narratives.

Her minimalism does not simplify the body so much as release it. Through abstraction and reduction, Coe seeks to dismantle the social metaphors that have long corseted women’s bodies, offering instead a space where autonomy and intimacy can coexist without performance. Each line becomes an act of quiet refusal—an insistence on seeing the body as it reveals itself, rather than as history has dressed it.

This inquiry extends into her teaching, where life drawing becomes a site for examining gender, sexuality, and the politics of looking. In these spaces, Coe encourages an unlearning of inherited visual habits, inviting students to encounter the body with neutrality and attentiveness.

Within Expanded Bodies, Coe’s work traces an expanded anatomy of gesture—one that understands the body not as spectacle but as a continuum of lived experience. Her figures outline a subtle but transformative shift in how the human form can be seen, felt, and reimagined.