Alezendria Decking is a Brazilian-American Artist b. 1997.

She graduated from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia to receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Minor in Art History.

Artist Statement

My work investigates person to person and object to person interactions that are both missed and pursued. My paintings, sculpture, drawings and collage become a visual inventory of these interactions. I am attracted and constantly aware of these moments because they cause me to question the crowd and its multiplicities….

This collection of data lends itself to the creation of crude spaces on canvas, as my paintings become a microcosm of these moments. Moments of connections and missed concretions that break the amalgamation of the crowd.

Cap’n Crunch is a reappearing image within my work. I have come to understand his appearance as a reference to the spectacle. His presence both evokes pressure within the work, and reveals vulnerability, as he hovers over the shoulder of characters, and thus the shoulder of the viewer. His inclusion thus acting as both overseer and tempter.

My scrupulous observations and modes of painting are all attempts to produce simultaneous feeling of encompassment and that of being stuck. Ultimately, all I can provide within my paintings are questions about these very moments. Such as what can go hidden in plain sight? How can an emotion be represented through art form? What kind of identities can be presupposed by an audience onto the work of art, and what kind of questions occupy the minds when this does happen? These are some questions that fuel my work and allow me to continue as a spectator.