Alejandra Icaza

Memories, in all their intangible guises, function as launching points for Alejandra Icaza’s new paintings
and collages. Replete with hovering images of trees, hands, animals, abstract patterning, cosmic
iconology, ?ctive networks and innumerable other diaristic entries, her paintings are playing ?elds where
multiple perspectival planes meld and collide. Icaza’s artistic process—and the subsequent experience of
viewing her work—is reminiscent of cinematic jump cuts, where the artist and the viewer participate in a
disorienting transition of elements; absent of standard time or spatial reality. On her canvases, objects and
orbs of luminous color ?oat in all directions, disrupting the viewer’s natural propensity to lock in a
traditional narrative or engage in a kind of Gestalt experience. Icaza weaves her expansive vocabulary of
color and imagery into a trance-like state where clarity comes forth momentarily only to dissolve again
below the surface…