Websites
painting & shodo
https://alxsw-art.webnode.page
photography website: https://alxswphotography.webnode.com
DAILY MOTION VIDEOS
https://www.dailymotion.com/artClown
Contact: alxs-art@protonmail.com
ABOUT
ALXSw is a professional creative in mediums of minimalist painting, shodo, photography and writing.
Painter (minimalism, abstract)
Photographer (photojournalism, abstract)
Zen Calligrapher (shodo)
Writer (research to haiku)
A has received various awards for photography
and painting: including Directors Award in painting at the Biennale Contemporania del Arte,
Florence, IT, 2009 President's Award at the 2009 Biennale de'l Arte Contemponarea,
Florence, Italy, 2009/ listed in the W's (west) at their website: www.florencebiennale.org/en/artists-2009/;
Kellicutt International Photography Exhibit, 3rd Place, 2013
(https://kellicutt.org/Show/2013/AwardRecipients); Carmel
Art and Film Festival, CA People's Choice, (2009).
Ongoing painting series "Solastalgia" and "Colorspaces"
EXHIBITS
2024
_Beachstone Gallery (ASA) Lincoln City, OR
_Jan /Hoffman Gallery, Manzanita, OR/ The Indigo Exhibit
Exhibits Jan2024 Indigo Group Show, Hoffman Art Center, Manzanita, OR //June2023 Art on The Edge/Chessman Gallery, Lincoln City Cultural Center//ongoing2023 Beachstone Gallery, Lincoln City OR//Sept22 OR Soc Artists Gallery (OSA), PDX // Aug22 Hoffman Art Center, Manzanita,OR // May 2022 Featured at PACG, Lincoln City,OR // 2008 NYC with E32, Linda Griggs, Curator // Gallery Aferro in NJ, Emma Cox, Curator // Exhibitions West, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR // numerous ad hoc art events // 2007-9 Bend Modern, Bend Independent Contemporary Art (BICA) Bend, OR
EDUCATION
Fine Arts & Bio sciences at several universities, M.S.Visual Comms and Criminal Justice
Permaculture Design Consultant Certificate. She is a garden manager at an Oregon coast formal garden.
Contact: alxs-art@protonmail.com
PHOTOGRAPHY
photography website: https://alxswphotography.webnode.com
EXHIBITS: Blue Sky Gallery, PDX, OR (Sept2022) // see.me Digital Exhibit, NYC, (August 2013) // Kallicott International Photography Exhibit, SFran, CA, August (https://kellicutt.org/Shows/2013/AwardRecipients), 3rd place // Carmel Art and Film Festival, CA (2009 People's Choice, Participant in 2010) // Nominee for BW Spider Award (years 2011, 2012) for architectural & still life photography // Featured in the 2010 Spring edition of ARTWORKS magazine.
WRITING & PHOTOGRAPHY - P U B L I C A T I O N S & P R O J E C T S
2022 "The Unraveling of A Pollinator Sanctuary" permaculturenews.org (AU) & permacultureEducation.org (US)
2022 Glam Gardening, (essay) permacultureeducation.org (US)
2022 "PFAS: Forever Is A Long Time", Tillamook County Master Gardeners Assoc./OSU
2021 MEME development for permacultureEducation.org - Permaculture Principles
2021 Article: "Weeds & Invasives:Towards a Neutral Perspective" permacultureeducation.org
2021 Article: "Mullein, Friend to All" published in Small Farm Journal Fall Edition,
reprint: PermacultureNews AU 2021 and permaculture education.org
2012 Hunting photo from my thesis reportage published in AZ Wildviews magazine
2008 Textbook cover for "Waiting for the Outs", NAU, AZ
2008 Umpqua NF: Synopsis of The Rattle Fire
2007 Textbook cover for Second Edition: Exploring Differences, NAU,AZ
2006 Photo published in Crime, Media, and Culture, Fall issue, UK
2005 Nonfiction short in The Strange Fruit, Seattle, June 2005
2005 River Postcard series for Lewis and Clark Festivities, MT
2004 Brochure layout for AZ Game and Fish
2001 Photo essay on Martial Arts, York U, Toronto, Les Cashiers de la Femme
2000 First Place Award for Photo Essay, NAU Graduate Exposition
1999 Book Cover for Exploring Differences, First Edition
1994 Mile High Poetry Society publication "Aganippe" (poetry)