FINE ART
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Recent Works
Alexandra Eckhardt is committed to an ongoing engagement with the natural world. Her current work is a response to, and an investigation of, her immediate surroundings as well as environments explored in traveled places. She looks closely at real things, then imposes them upon a conceived construct. She is interested in passageways and journeys, the juxtaposition of interior and exterior space both actually and metaphorically.
Her drawings and prints represent real and imagined worlds with landscapes that draw the viewer's eye into the distance, where the experience continues beyond the visible surface.
Her drawings and prints represent real and imagined worlds with landscapes that draw the viewer's eye into the distance, where the experience continues beyond the visible surface.
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Abstracts
In 2002, Eckhardt created a series of abstract intaglio prints for the Sloane Kettering Corporate Collection. The prints in this portfolio reflect the artist's exploration of "interrupted circles" that inspired the series.
"Abstract 15" - Alexandra Eckhardt - Intaglio, 22½” x 15”
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Collaborations
A Book of Hours
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This year-long collaboration between Alexandra Eckhardt and dancer/choreographer Katy (Watson) Schonbeck is based on the eight canonical hours of the liturgical day. Inspired by illustrated Medieval prayer books, Eckhardt's "Book of Hours" includes fourteen miniature watercolors mixed with engraver's ink and gold.
Meeting in the woods, Katy (Watson) Schonbeck would dance while Alexandra Eckhardt painted, capturing the light at certain times of the day and the graceful lines of the dancer's body. Some of the canonical hours in which they worked were before sunrise and at sunset. "Eckhardt captures that elusive quality of light which makes a forest glow, dappling the trees and hinting at the depth and mystery of a dark pre-dawn or sunset wood." - Lauryn Axelrod, Arts & Entertainment Editor, Bennington Banner (Vermont) |
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The collaboration evolved into a series of performances of music, dance and art in garden settings, one of which was held at the Alhumbra in Granada, Spain.
