Alexandra Hedison
Born 1969, Los Angeles
For her most recent body of work, Alexandra Hedison spent solitary time in a temperate rainforest in the Pacific North West of the United States in search of distinctive shoot locations for her large format photographs. The resultant images are complicated compositions which for Hedison, describes life’s journey. The landscape she chooses to shoot is a tangle of old and new organic growth with a disorienting density. The large print sizes of her artworks are engulfing and consequently transport the viewer into a perplexing environment which is both beautiful and smothering leaving the eyes begin to search for an elusive exit.The works speak to human navigation through change and the inevitability of processing loss through passage and discovery.
Hedison’s process is entirely non-digital. The work is printed by master printer Chip Leavitt of Lumiere and the strictest standards or production are adhered to throughout the production process. Hedison splits her time between London and Los Angeles.
Artist’s Statement
My work is concerned primarily with the personal narrative and its universality of loss and recovery. I use the physicality of global terrains to explore the equally layered tapestries of the human interior. Structuring my work around journeys, I focus on topographic identities using visual narratives of landscapes as metaphors for the journey of life.
Press
Heart of Darkness, House Magazine, Autumn 2008
Grounded Visionary, Outlook Magazine, February 2007
Rebuilding, Artworks Magazine, Fall 2006
A Night Out With, New York Times, August 2004
About Town, The Hollywood Reporter, July 2004
CV
Education
1987-1989 Master of Fine Arts Program, State University of New York at Purchase
1990-1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Mews 42 Gallery, London
2009
Frank Pictures Gallery, Los Angeles
2008
Gallery 28, Chelsea, NYC
Concrete + Glass, London
2005
White Room Gallery, Los Angeles
2004
White Room Gallery, Los Angeles
Group Exhibitions
2002
Rose Gallery, Los Angeles