Alex Selkowitz

Los Angeles-based painter Alex Selkowtiz’s work is noticeably influenced by his previous career working on lighting crews for film and television. He says, “Over the years, this education of lighting and cinematography has helped hone my eye for light, shadow, and composition.”

As a child, Alex spent hours daydreaming and he consumed movies and video games – anything that stimulated him visually.

His work is inspired by cities’ juxtaposition of urban sprawl and green spaces. There is a quality to his work which suggests “the moment after” or that someone just walked off set. The result is a striking image negotiating the balance between a physical encounter and a faded memory.

Often depicting landscapes or cityscapes, the viewer can almost immediately tell, based on the distinctive colours, the exact time of day the painting portrays.

Alex shares, “The idea that transcends throughout most of my work is calmness within a frenetic world. It stems from my own personal pursuit of wanting to feel calm and balanced in my own life. I suppose that, inevitably, it comes out in my artwork. Occasionally, I will imagine a painting that I am working on hanging on a wall somewhere and think to myself, would this image cause me to stop whatever I am doing and reflect for a moment?”

Alex has shown his work throughout California and has exhibited at The Other Art Fair Los Angeles and Santa Monica.

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