About
Alexander Churchill is a visual artist and muralist living and working in Connecticut, USA. He was born in California and raised in Vermont where he earned a BFA in painting at Green Mountain College and has shown his work throughout the country.
Statement:
Working with multiple modes of painting, my work employs visually contradictory styles and incoherent color schemes intermingled with subtle humor and languorous figures to convey the anxiety that comes with reconciling the absurd nature of my subject matter. My paintings act as a self-critical examination of belonging and concentric spheres of identity. Themes of cultural heritage, class disparity and objective meaninglessness overlap with experiential notions of place, purpose, and adversity. My engagement with and observation of a wide spectrum of privilege and societal ennui throughout my life has informed my work and provided a context for exploring how personal spheres fit into a societal landscape.
Press:
2020:
Connecticut Post, Arts and Style interview https://www.ctinsider.com/living/ctpost/article/Here-are-the-paintings-that-brought-Alexander-15603119.php
De:Formal, online interview, https://www.deformal.com/artists/alexander-churchill2019:
Pikchur Magazine, Issue 4
2018:
Hi Fructose Magazine, https://hifructose.com/2018/10/06/alexander-churchills-disconcerting-vibrant-absurdist-futility-series/
2016:
Fresh Paint Magazine, International Issue 14
Create Magazine, Issue 2
2015:
Studio Visit Magazine Vol. 29
Artist Portfolio Magazine "LA vs NY"
Exhibitions:
2022:
Solo Exhibition, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
2021:
”One in a Year” The Painting Center, online exhibition, New York, NY
2020:
”AONE” *Grand Prize Winner* Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
”I Am” Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT
2019:
”HeART and Mind” Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
”Chlorine Tidal Wave” Field Projects, New York, NY
New Guild members Exhibition: Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
Green: The impossible Color, The Painting Center New York, NY
2018:
Guild group exhibition, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
"Place(Holder)" Gallery 263 Cambridge, MA
"68th Art of the Northeast" Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2017:
"Fight or Flight" Group Exhibition, The Painting Center, New York, NY
"Dream Sequence" Group Exhibition, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016:
"Uncanny Valley" Solo Exhibition, Hud Gallery, Ventura, CA
"Surreal Salon" Group exhibition, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2015:
"Outside Influence" Group Exhibition, Treo Gallery, New Orleans, LA
"Intelligent Objects: Empathetic and Smart Art" Creative Arts Workshop, Hilles Gallery, Juried Exhibition, New Haven, Ct
"Wide Open 6" Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Juried Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2014:
International Fine Art Competition and Exhibition, Agora Gallery, New York, NY
"Not so Still Life" Southport Galleries, Group Exhibition- Southport, CT
2013:
"Haunting" Linus Gallery, Juried online exhibition, Pasadena, CA
24th Annual Juried Competition and Exhibition, Viridian Artists INC. New York, NY, Juror: Elisabeth Sussman, *Honorable Mention
2013 Alumni Art Exhibition, Feick Arts Center, Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT
2012:
4th Annual National Figurative Art Competition and Competition, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2011:
3rd Annual National Figurative Art Competition and Exhibition, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa - 2nd place winner