Martyna Alexander is a Detroit-based artist and designer. Working in a diverse range of projects in painting and other 2D media, to explore the subconscious world stemming from our innate biological and cultural pasts.

As an artist-designer, Alexander has used her longtime design career as a way to explore more subjective forms of understanding through painting. In painting she allows her design skills to inform her visual vocabulary and channel that very analytical process into creating abstract, solutionless artworks. Her pieces live somewhere in the space between rational thought and some sense of fantasy for who we are and where we’ve come from as individuals and as a community. Exploring how these ancient connections to ourselves and the contemporary frameworks we apply to our lives, environments, and culturally-created containers, reminds us that the many man-made systems that make up our lives, and can be unmade and changed with collective will.

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