Alexandra Castelli
  • My Archipelago 2014-present
  • Big Tide
  • Castaneda Series, 2017-present
  • lobos de mar 2018-present
  • Apnea
  • an eye for an eye
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LOBOS DE MAR
2018-present


Water is my reference and metaphorical habitat.   I have been painting swimmers for many years, working with  summer photo-shoots of friends and family.  I ask them to swim back and forth in shallow water while I stand above with my awful camera.  Bodies moving about, merging with waves,  contours  liquefied, patterns  of light and shadow drawn across the skin...

Working in oils, sometimes acrylics,  often both, repeatedly painting the same swimmers... These are portraits in that I establish a recognizable  posture: an identity that goes beyond features, an kinetic attitude toward reality. Environment changes us, defines us. We incorporate aspects of it while negotiating  our flow,  traces embedded deeply into the fabric of our identity.


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Inner Waters, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
70x134cm

All the Fish in the Sea, 2020,
acrylic on canvas,
100x70cm


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Tiny Christmas Swimmers, 2018,
oil on board or canvas

Blond Idol II, 2018                                                                                                      Blond Idol I, 2018
oil on canvas                                                                                                                                                                acrylic on canvas
100x50cm                                                                                                                                                                    100x50cm

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Lobo de Mar V (Ola), 2018, oil on canvas, 70x100cm

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Lobo de Mar I, 2018 (Hover)                  Lobo de Mar II, 2018 (Leon)                         Lobo de Mar III (Lobito), 2018
oil on canvas                                                                   oil on canvas,                                                                         oil and acrylic on canvas,
40x40cm                                                                         50x40cm                                                                                 30x30cm
Private Collection                                                                                                                                       
                                   
                                                                                                

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Mind Over Matter, 2018-20
oil on canvas
100x73cm

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Moonwalk, 2019-20            
Diptych
Acrylic on Canvas
100x140cm,

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Little Swimmer, 2017
  Oil on Canvas on Board
            37x51.5cm

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