John Alexander

(American, born 1945)

queen for a day by john alexander

John Alexander

Queen for a Day, 1984

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1945
Born: in Beaumont, TX
1968
B.F.A. from Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
1970
M.F.A. from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
1981
National Endowment for the Arts Fellow
1984
Solomon R. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow
Lives and works in New York City and Amagansett, NY
John Alexander’s work has been called a meeting between the Hudson River School and east Texas—a comparison the artist doesn’t resist. As a child, Alexander was deeply moved by American landscape painting and developed a reverence for nature. Today, he is known for his deftness as both a draftsman and satirist, creating allegorical, chaotic, and sometimes violent landscapes. In these, he takes a critical perspective on human interference with the natural world, corporate interests, the American political climate, and the destruction of the environment. He describes his ongoing subject as “nature at its grandest and man at his worst,” or the “glimpse of paradise before the wrecking ball hits.” Critic Robert Hughes admiringly referred to him as “a Texan swamp hog raised by madness.”

Exhibitions

2009
"John Alexander", Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
2008
"John Alexander: Drawings", Hemphill Fine Art, Washington DC (solo)
"John Alexander: A Retrospective. Museum of Fine Arts", Houston, TX (solo)
"John Alexander: New Paintings", McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
"John Alexander. Drawing Room", East Hampton, NY(solo)
"John Alexander: New Drawings", McClain Gallery, Houston, TX(solo)
"John Alexander: Recent Paintings", Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA (solo)
2007
"John Alexander: A Retrospective", Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (solo)
"John Alexander: New Works on Paper", Eaton Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL (solo)
2006
"John Alexander", Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
2005
"John Alexander: The Sea! The Sea!", Eaton Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL (solo)
"John Alexander: Recent Observations", The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (solo)
2004
"John Alexander", J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL (solo)
"John Alexander", Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
2003
Dishman Gallery of Art, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
"JA: 35 Years of Works on Paper", Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX (solo)
"JA Print Retrospective", School of Art Gallery, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA (solo)
The Ralls Collection, Washington DC
2002
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary Dallas, TX
Bendley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2001
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
1999
"New Monoprints", Marlborough Graphics, New York, NY
The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC