Artist Statement

Alex Rudin’s work peers into the moment when subconscious thought breaks through to conscious reality – of interior honesty amid exterior chaos. Besieged by societal pressures, genuine emotional expression can be significantly repressed. The rawness of intimacy between one and oneself is an irrefutable flash of honesty amid societal pressures.

In her work, Alex strives to create moments of complexity, ambiguity, and narrative through combining both figurative and abstract representations of human expression, with a strict focus on facial expression and hand gestures. Subjects straddle the world of subconscious emergence, slowly unmasking their persona, while remaining engulfed in a web of external reality.

Fever, 2018

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