STELLA ALESI
Stella Alesi
Stella Alesi Stella Alesi works across a number of styles and mediums, including drawing, painting, photography, collage, and large wall works. Their practice is characterized by a willingness to try new approaches in the ongoing investigation into new materials and visual languages. Alesi’s painting practice emphasizes the importance of failure as a way of moving forward and challenging established structures. They use the space and exploration the work provides to visualize the visceral nature of the human experience.
Alesi has resided in Austin, Texas for the last 30 years. Their work has been purchased by many private and commercial collections. Born on Long Island, New York in 1963, Stella was raised in New Jersey. They began their undergraduate work at Parsons School of Design in New York City, with stints in Paris and Los Angeles, and finished at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. Their graduate work was completed at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
