Name/Title
Casual systemEntry/Object ID
2024.06.01Description
Alex Heilbron (b. 1987, San Rafael, California, USA) is an American artist whose works examines the visual culture of femininity and the female body in its physical, psychological, political, and cultural contexts. She addresses these aspect of gender and identity to provoke conversations about how femininity is perceived in both public and private spaces, and how symbols and images evolve around gender conventions.
Helibron's works often characterized by figures placed within layers of complex patterns and shapes that make the works suggestively feminine.
Casual system repeats a four-petalled flower grid. Designed in a graphic computer program, the pained work captures the translation "between computer programs...by Heilbron’s hand, the grids stretch and warp, frayed by pixelation and slippage."
The artist received her BFA in 2009 from the San Francisco Art Institute, studied with Rita McBride and Christopher Williams at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 2014-2017, and earned an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2020.Artwork Details
Medium
acrylic on canvas on panelDimensions
Height
71.1 cmWidth
50.8 cm