Alexandra Diez
"When you look at the work of Alexandra Diez, you are intrigued by the play of patterns and color, by the palpable rawness of the canvas and the way the shapes stand out from the background"
Alexandra Diez is an American artist of Spanish descent, born in Nicaragua in 1963. She studied Interior Architecture in Miami and has a degree in Architettura D’Interni from the Istituto Pantheon in Rome. She currently lives in Miami.
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The first part of her artistic life was spent designing and manufacturing an original and unique collection of artistic metal furniture based in Miami, celebrated and exhibited worldwide.
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For Alexandra Diez it felt natural to evolve from imagining and drawing the free curves and geometric shapes of her pieces to creating endless shapes made out of raw canvas canvas.
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Alexandra Diez has always been intrigued by the underlying space or emptiness that is the backdrop of all things that exist. The original Latin meaning of the word “exist” which is “stand forth” and its implications, has had a lasting impact on the artist. This model of reality is represented in her work through the floating shapes on the canvas.
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In her work she gives life to this background space with layers of color and then proceeds to populate it with a legion of free form shapes that are drawn on raw canvas, hand cut, saturated with color and adhered to the background. The shapes seem to “stand forth” as though separate from the background but, as in reality itself, the space and the objects are all part of an ever changing composition of the one and only essence. She likes to call this process Primordial Floating Shapes.
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Starting in 2018 Alexandra Diez was the resident artist at Miami Circle Contemporary Art Gallery and is currently exhibited in Black Tower Gallery both in the Miami Design District.
