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