Alexandra Grant is a visual artist with an interdisciplinary love of language, specifically the written word. Across paintings, sculpture, photography, installations, and publishing, she evinces a painter’s love of text and an author’s love of images. Grant shows a new series of large-scale, intensely textured and prismatically colored mixed media paintings based on the story of Antigone at Lowell Ryan Projects in West Adams on June 1st.

Mario Vasquez October 4 at 8:40am Thanks for doing this interview with me. I want to begin by talking about your beginnings. How did you become an artist? Alexandra Grant October 11 at 8:48pm A good question. I don't know if I ever wasn't an artist. My mother recently found a school project of mine from ages 7 or 8. The teacher had assigned us to write a newspaper article. I decided to make an entire newspaper. I enlisted my best friend as a journalist and she wrote several articles. I came…

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ALEXANDRA GRANT Text and images by Anais Wade Sunday May 16 2010 What is your full time job? Artist. Three words. Why -- Fire -- Pink Favorite letter? E. I was obsessed with the letter E for a while… Somebody told me that it is the most commonly written letter. And A… since it is the first letter of my name. I'm partial to all the letters, I could take the whole alphabet! What is love? Love is about generosity. When I created the Love symbol for Watts House Project, it was a post-Obamic…

Holding an inclusive space, Alexandra Grant's work in paintings, photography, sculpture, installations, and publishing serves as a great connector, joining ideas of equality, the feminine and a bigger thread of consciousness that unites us all.

Alexandra Grant Fragment 6, 2006 Published by The Lapis Press, to benefit the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Ultra Chrome ink on Arches paper 27 1/2 x 20 1/4 inches Edition of 30 plus 10 artist's proofs

Meet alum Alexandra Grant, a Los Angeles-based artist who explores the performance of language in various media, including her series of paintings based on a famous Greek tragedy.

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alexandra grant / 18978 from Woven's limited edition artist rugs collection.

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