ALEXANDRA SLEZAK LOONEY MOONS ARTS (OWNER AND ARTIST)
Photo by Barnabas Ketema @Photography_by_barnabas
Alexandra Slezak began her creative journey in Maryland, USA, studying the traditions of photography and charcoal drawing. Though after experiments with art and consciousness, has found catharsis in creating surreal-esque landscape paintings and upcycled sculptures concerned with environmentalism and healing through art.
Observations and patterns in nature and meditations inspire her paintings that illustrate a horizon between our inner and outer landscapes.
On the surface her artwork tends to emphasize the materials and processes themselves, which shows in tactile textures, like her spiral square under-painting technique. These initial layers contrast sharp geometric designs and detail landscapes to depict scenes from a niche somewhere in-between the real and unreal. This space is infused with imagery from both earthly and metaphysical realms.
Beyond painting, Alexandra creates sculptures from reused materials such as synthetic corks, hub caps, and scrap bike parts. Some of these sculptures are intended to be collectively completed in a community setting to build awareness of our environmental impact as consumers. Passerbyers add pieces of upcyled material to the artwork and together create upcycled artwork bespoke to each event and participant. Alexandra also independently creates upcycled pieces in her studio. These all use bike chains, chess pieces, and other reused items to create a playful commentary on the connection between consumer, object and environment.
“Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.” -Kahlil Gibran, Wings of Thought