Alex Maceda, photographed by Yoni Goldberg, 2024.

 

about the artist (Link to CV):

My work is an interplay between opacity and transparency via the textured application of paint, sheer washes, and/or exposed canvas to question what we (can) see, what comes through, and what lies beyond. My compositional themes center around eroticism, animism, religious mythology, and fate: what and who is destined for us, what we reach for, how that calls for us. 

Informed by observation, but untethered from strict representation, my work moves between descriptive and intuitive. Undulating figures, anthropomorphic landscapes, and swaths of color morph in and out of each other and the spaces they occupy. My compositions combine religious iconography with geometric abstraction to depict divine figures: plant and animal spirits, gods and goddesses, celestial bodies.


Alex Maceda (b.1989) is a Filipina-American artist and writer living and working in New York City. She holds a BA in Classical Studies with a Minor in Studio Art from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is an MFA candidate in Painting at the New York Studio School. Alex is passionate about mental health and a dedicated student of yoga, meditation, and other healing modalities. She was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and spent her summers in Manila, Philippines.