Women United ART PRIZE 2023
Photography & Printmaking Category
finalist

ARTIST BIO

Alexandra F. Light (USA, 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on choreography and visual mediums. Her work explores ideas of ecology, ritual, psychology, and the female experience. She holds a BS in psychology, magna cum laude, and has danced for Texas Ballet Theater since 2012 where she is a Principal Dancer. Her choreography has been presented in such institutions as the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Katzen Art Center of American University. Her mixed media and photography have been presented at gallery shows both nationally and internationally. She spent summer 2023 as the inaugural recipient of the Frank Lloyd Wright Martin House Creative Residency in Buffalo, NY, as well as the Centre Pompadour Feminist Residency in Abbeville, France.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My artistic practices uses paper, photography, paint, and the human form to explore feminism, body autonomy, intuition, and spirituality. I create art to transport myself and others to realms I desire to be in or realms that can teach and connect. I use my art to resurrect women's history forgotten by a combination of time and gender biases.

The five submitted photographs are from my series 'Restoration Of' and are a continuation of a larger series of my work that works to incorporate both choreography and photography into one media; the human body dances through the constraints of capturing light for two-dimensional keepsake. These images were captured throughout the Frank Lloyd Wright Martin House, of which I had special photographic access during my time there as the inaugural fellowship and creative residency. While my main work during the residency was the 17-minute long choreographic piece titled 'Floricycle', this series of photographs becomes a 2D form of that work- the themes of both being the restoration often forgotten or unthought of lives of 20th century women. The movement calls to the strengths and vulnerabilities of women that often go unnoticed, misattributed, or devalued.

Fort Worth, TX / United States