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Lexi Strauss

London
Lexi Strauss is a London/ West Midlands based mixed media fine artist. Graduating from the RCA in 2014 in painting, her work is represented in the New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge University

Arising from interviews or the imagination, specious, fluid narratives subliminally weave works together in order to explore the idea of individuation and the complex human relationship with the belief system. In addition to the core painting practice, diverse recorded conversations are sometimes performed using a ‘verbatim’ acting process to engage with people in depth. Paintings are occasionally ventriliquised in order to tell stories. Playfully theatrical installations using projections allow objects or subjects within the imagery to breath, speak and sing collectively or as individuals. Narratives seeking out absurdity and subversion may hold insightful keys, since true meanings are often realized in their transitions from nonsense. Thus, subjects within the paintings may appear clownish, displaying both a rigid facade and a vulnerable persona.

 

1000 Foundlings Find Their Mothers

The Twelve Apostles as Babies (installation)

Verbatim Performances

Parenting series

Tales from the Auction House

Vulnerability and Rigidity series (various Clowns)

The Twelve Apostles as Babies

Empty chair series

Small Town

Short Journey

Empty Chair Series

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