Alex Puryear

Alex Puryear is a Chicago-based mixed media artist creating large-scale original works for collectors, hotels, corporate spaces, and galleries. Working across collage, texture, resin, and painterly gesture, his paintings bridge abstract expressionism and surrealism — layered compositions built to hold a room: lobbies, executive floors, hospitality spaces, and private collections.

His work has been exhibited across Chicago, including a solo exhibition of more than 20 works that followed his Curator's Choice Award at the Chicago Fine Art Salon, live painting performances with jazz ensembles at Fulton Street Collective, and works donated annually to benefit auctions including DIFFA Chicago's Art for Life and Samaritans NYC.

Commissions and site-specific large-scale pieces are available for corporate, hospitality, and residential projects. Originals ship from his Chicago studio with a certificate of authenticity.

Solo Exhibition — Chicago Fine Art Salon (held at West Town Chamber of Commerce), Chicago, 2022 · Curator's Choice Award, I'm Not a Robot — Chicago Fine Art Salon, 2022 · FOUR WALLS / FOUR ARTISTS — Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, 2023 · Art for Life Chicago (benefit) — DIFFA Chicago, 2025 · Logan Square Art Residency — Chicago, 2025 · The Architecture of Dreams — Chicago, 2026