Artist Statement
I’m interested in the blurred boundaries between cultural memory and history, and between personal memory and fantasy. Agricultural images from periodicals, all dating from the 1950’s-1970’s, dictate the composition of this series of paintings. From the era which birthed extensive media campaigns, these found images present ideal visions from the American Dream. My work explores the role they play in constructing both cultural memory and amnesia. The figures in my work are often ghostly and faceless, leaving a vacant character for the viewer to inhabit, and simultaneously reflects current tensions between individual and cultural identity. Mythical happenings and celestial bodies are often depicted within these wholesome moments, eliciting an air of foreboding within the painting. Drawing on our own insignificance within the vastness of the universe, these characters are forced to contend with powers beyond their control.
Alexa Gilweit is an artist living and working in Las Vegas, NV. She studied art at the Gerrit Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands and at the Hons Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
On exhibit at Sahara West Library from May 23, 2025 through August 2, 2025
Gallery reception Thursday, May 29, 2025 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Monday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Tuesday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Wednesday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Thursday: 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Friday: 10:00AM – 6:00PM
Saturday: 10:00AM – 6:00PM
Sunday: 10:00AM – 6:00PM
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