PS Featured Recent Grad: Alexandra Piper
PS Recent Grad Spotlight Artist Alexandra @faith.piper.xo is a first-generation college student, who is graduating with Honors from Moore College of Art and Design in spring 2021 with a Bachelor’s in Fine arts and a minor in textiles. Originally from Millville, NJ, Alexandra now spends her days in Philadelphia where she is working towards her new career as an artist. She has experience working at a variety of studios, such as The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA) and for Wheaton’s Glass Community (Millville NJ). Within her practice, she explores ideas of what it means to collect and focuses on creating installations that imply nature. Overall, Alexandra is looking forward to working with an artist’s ran community.
“Immediately, the first change for me was moving back to my hometown in Millville, NJ, halfway through my junior year at Moore. At this time I was still in love with being able to layer with oil paint and I would occasionally incorporate sand or other natural elements into my paintings. Naturally, being at home meant that I spent most of my time either indoors or outside in the woods that surrounded my old house. It was then when I started collecting pinecones, to possibly include them into my paintings, but ultimately, I found myself more interested in the process of collecting. Staying home during quarantine allowed me really reflect on the space that I was surrounded by. I began creating videos to document my collecting process, and called them ‘experiments.’ It wasn't until I was able to move back to Philadephia that I then wanted to move to sculpture work. I wanted more than just a video. I started creating collections of my own in my backyard, with what I had and organizing them into different playful situations. I then moved onto experimenting with water and how to have it activated a space like I always saw happening in my earlier video work. I hope to share the stories of reflection. Either reflecting one's own space they choose to organize and create themselves or reflecting out in nature.”
