Jonny Alexander is a multi-disciplinary artists born in the United States and currently based in Mexico City. Since receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University, Chico in 2013 he has been working in a diverse range of art practices. This includes exhibiting paintings, sculptures and installations as well as public art works in the form of murals and commercial collaborations in design and branding.
Through time spent with a practice the question inevitably arises, why does one make art? At this moment in Alexander’s evolution as an artist the answer to that question is that it brings him relief. If that is the root place from which his practice arises he feels it only natural to maintain this as a core tenant in the creation of his work and to extend that relief to the viewer. Using abstract organic forms he is naturally drawn to, Jonny uses them as metaphors for experiences in our lives. These forms reflect fragility yet stability, a paradox we occupy in daily life. The balance, the harmony and the impending entropy is present at all times. Within that knowledge there is a freedom to accept change and trust our experiences.
Jonny has shown works at the Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art as well as solo exhibitions at Swish Projects (San Diego) and Good Faith (San Diego). His exhibiting includes a long list of group exhibitions at galleries such as Skye Gallery (New York) Thinkspace Gallery (Los Angeles), Hashimoto Contemporary (Los Angeles), Cass Contemporary (Tampa), 111 Minna (San Francisco) among others. Public and private murals have been completed across the United State and abroad including San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago, Denver, Mexico and New Zealand. He also has works in the permanent collection of the Janet Turner Print Museum.