Alex Zenger
Tour Stop Number: 14Category: Drawing, Mixed Media, Painting, and Printmaking
Website: https://alexzenger.com/
Email: azenger@outlook.com
Phone: 415-439-3379
Mixed media, drawing, painting, collage and printmaking
After classical drawing and painting studies in Munich and Berlin Germany, my work began to develop into the more abstract form that it has today. Concerns in my work are time, pressure, change and fragility. Matter collides and interacts in a fusion of color and geometry which contrasts with free nature forms. Lines are important because they exert a uniquely human influence over natural shapes. I use many materials – mixed media. The basis is often acrylic paint with the addition of paper, pastels, charcoal, pencil and sometimes oil paint. Also, ideas borrowed from physics “Quantum Mechanics and String Theory” are integrated into the work.
I was born in Texas. After completing a BA at the University of Dallas and an MFA at Texas Christian University, I studied further art and art history at Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich and at the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin. Later as a scholarship student, I worked with Bruce Dorfman at the Art Student’s League in NYC where I am a lifetime member.
A few years ago, my husband and I visited a place in New Mexico called Abiquiu. We liked it very much and eventually bought a house with property near there in Medanales. In the last years we have lived in New York State, but we decided to move to the enchanted state of New Mexico and our place in Medanales where we now make our home with our dog.