Alexandra Hood

Medium: Graphite, Pen and Ink

Tell us about your work: Alexandra Hood earned her B.A. from Elmira College and currently works in her hometown of Lewiston, Maine. Focusing on realistic oil paintings and graphite portraits, Alexandra frequently explores the subjects of human connection and emotional transparency in her work. The depiction of money flowers, a popular theme in her paintings, reference the delicate relationship between materialism and our expressions of power and love. Alexandra’s portrait drawings manipulate the veil placed between the subject and the viewer, expressing or shielding the underlying fragments of our natural selves and peeling back the layers of personal identity. In recent work, her ballpoint pen studies focus on an artist’s deliberate observation of familiar subjects in nature. In these drawings she purposefully trains the viewer’s eye to otherwise overlooked and intimate details, allowing viewers to truly engage with the subject in front of them without the distractions of modern life. All botanical drawings are created on a light green cotton rag paper with deckled edges, creating a synergy between material and subject matter.

Alexandra Hood has been included in multiple solo and group exhibitions between Maine, Upstate New York, and New York City. Alexandra currently works at Bates College as the Olin Arts Center Operations Supervisor.

How to contact this artist: 

Email: alexandra@alexandrahood.com

Website: www.alexandrahood.com