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ALEXA HOROCHOWSKI

ARTIST STATEMENT: A friend once described my work as forensic naturalism-a prose-like, figurative style, all facts and descriptions, as if following a call to drop all adjectives, the fluff of Romantic poesy. The result is a refined visual prose that is inexplicably sweet and sexy. I am a journalist at heart but I have supplanted text with imagery. My work is direct, it is descriptive, and it is curious and objectively ambivalent. I work in visual narratives that have no beginning or end and multiple interpretations.

These visual narratives often explore my bicultural, Argentinean-Midwestern experience. Many of my characters inhabit that impossible space in my youth before immigration and after. They hold a profound longing and grief for childhood. As if childhood is a lost first world, where different rules apply, where all the horses are gorgeous and you never die no matter how many times your sister may shoot you.

I like to refer to my drawings as performance pictures because of their monumental scale and their ephemeral quality. Painted directly on the wall, these drawings exist only for the duration of a particular exhibition, after which, they are erased and painted over. By creating paintings that mimic this familiar process of life and death, I create work that has an inexplicably palpable presence. The viewer identifies with the image and simultaneously mourns its death.

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