Alexander Edwards

In my pieces I use fragments of electronics. Pieces of a once functional piece of technology. The pieces I most often use come from televisions. I think a lot about television and how it’s the primary medium for our information, entertainment and often our inspiration. I archive the fragments in acrylic boxes. Sort of like a reliquary. Have you ever seen the tooth of St. John the Baptist at the Art Institute Chicago. It’s in a tiny glass container. Amazing. I also use organic matter. Primarily food. It is extremely interesting to me to watch it decompose. I’m fascinated by the metamorphosis that occurs. The changing from, let’s say an apple. A thing that can nourish us and give us energy can become a rotted core of spores and fungus. A thing that could make us extremely sick, maybe even kill us. Perhaps televisions and computers can do the same to us. Nourish us or make us sick. I’m not sure. So I take the fragments of two disparate things that exist in the work and combine them. Trying to make sense of the world. It’s sort of like Dr. Frankenstein trying to reanimate dead matter. I’m never quite sure what the monster will do but I am sure that it is oddly ugly and beautiful simultaneously. Like life. Or like a painting by Cezanne ...

B.A Visual & Critical Studies - Pratt Institute

SOLO SHOWS
“Lisbon Lemons” Hangar Centro de Investigação Artística Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal; 2020
"New General Catalog" DSK, Brooklyn; 2019

GROUP SHOWS
"#endchildtrafficking", The Set NYC; 2020
“Oddities” East Gallery, Pratt Institute; 2018
“Plastic Gallery” Alumni Reading Room, Pratt Institute; 2018
“Escape From Gravity” ARC Building, Pratt Institute; 2018