Alexa Guariglia (American, b. 1990)
Limelight, 2024
Gouache, Watercolor, and Ink on Paper
60 1/4" x 88 7/8" (153 x 225.5 cm)
Framed: 63 11/16" x 93 5/16" (162 cm x 237 cm)
Unique
(AaGr.24885)
Limelight, 2024
Gouache, Watercolor, and Ink on Paper
60 1/4" x 88 7/8" (153 x 225.5 cm)
Framed: 63 11/16" x 93 5/16" (162 cm x 237 cm)
Unique
(AaGr.24885)
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Yossi Milo is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition with artist Alexa Guariglia, which will open on May 1, 2025.
Alexa Guariglia’s (b. 1990; New York, NY) debut exhibition with the gallery showcases the artist’s methodical approach to improvising forms in gouache, watercolor, and ink. These forms shift in style and mode before coalescing into highly precise patterns through repeated iterations. The artist’s meticulously tessellated structures become environments and emotional modes inhabited by her expressive figures. Guariglia focuses on public spaces and regimented areas such as airports, nail salons, parks, and neighborhoods – spaces where human behaviors take on the same regularity as the structures that underpin her compositions.
Using her medium–often in a single picture–the artist achieves a depth of field commonly found in oil painting, as the watercolor and ink soak into the paper and the gouache sits atop it, forming the physical basis for a painterly language inherently tied to its material. As she responds to her own marks in real time, the importance of materials as immediate as her’s becomes apparent. Compositional clues allow the viewer to trace the artist’s steady, searching hand across the page, navigating through tangled bodies and winding patterns. That the pages themselves are often irregular–cut right from the massive standing roll of heavy paper–serves to reinforce the line’s primacy in the artist’s practice.
