BIOGRAPHY

JOHN ALEXANDER (b. 1945)

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From his paintings of the Bayou in the 1980s to recent representations of the breaking waves off Montauk and Amagansett at night, John Alexander has found in nature an unending source of inspiration. Alexander was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1945. His first introduction to nature was on the trips taken while a boy with his father through the East Texas countryside. Alexander studied painting at Lamar University in Beaumont and received his M.F.A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He worked in Texas before moving to New York in 1979. The intensity and darkness of his fantastic landscapes and animal depictions established Alexander's place among 1980s New York's leading imagist painters. In 1986 he started living on Eastern Long Island, while he kept his Soho loft. Alexander has settled into living and working in Amagansett. His present surroundings have brought out the realist tendencies of Alexander's vision. Working from observation the universal art he creates is firmly grounded in Alexander's own vivid reflections of his experiences of nature.

Alexander has had numerous solo exhibitions, and he has participated in many group shows throughout the United States. Robert Hughes, John Russell, Barbara Rose, Mark Stevens, George Plimpton, Michael Brenson, Grace Glueck, Vivien Raynor, Bob Colacello are among the critics and authors who have written about Alexander. The public collections holding examples of his work include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Dallas Museum of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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