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artist's statement


I began my career as a graphic artist using my design acumen to solve client problems and communicate their messages to diverse audiences. Now, my personal work, free from client considerations affords me the opportunity to work in a variety of mixed media to satisfy my personal aesthetic. 


I create images in primarily three ways. On wood, (usually yardsticks), combining acrylic, enamel and other materials. Although I don't consider myself a fiber artist, I also work with fabric and varnished crochet thread to create a variety of images. My most current work combines the time honored techniques of paper making and mosaic with today's technology of digital photography to create mosaics from hand cast paper cubes like the self-portrait shown here. These mosaics seem to have two realities — a colorful abstract when viewed close and photographic reality when viewed from a distance.

works on wood

Measured Distress #2  |  37" X 37"  |  $2500

    paper mosaics

    In the Corner  |  30" X 36"  |  SOLD

      fiber work

      Self-portrait  |  48" X 48"  |  NFS

        works of paper & works on paper

        Red Line Piercings I |  30" X 30" |  $1500

          exhibitions and awards

          Row House Gallery

          One person show   2009

          Craft Alliance Guild (small gallery)

          One person show   2010



          JURIED EXHIBITIONS

          Art Saint Louis

          Food Glorious Food  2014

          Good and Evil  2014 (Honors Award)

          Picture of Health  2014

          Painting Reconsidered Reconstructed  2015

          Joy  2015

          From Light to Dark  2015

          Fiber Focus  2016

          Menagerie  2017

          Personal Space  2017 (Best of Show)

          No Filter  2017

          Art Saint Louis XXXIII  2017

          Art Saint Louis Honors Show  2018

          Menagerie 2018

          Art Saint Louis XXXIV 

          Outliers 2019 (Honors Award)

          An American Conversation 2019

          Fiber Focus 2019

          Art St. Louis XXXV (Honors Award)

          Creatures II 2020

          Maturity and its Muse 2021

          Ordinary Lives 2021

          Art Saint Louis XXXVII (Honors Award)

          All that feels 2022

          Ordinary Lives 2023

          Evansville Art Museum

          58th Mid-States Art Exibition  2016/17  ( Judges Award )

          61st Mid-States Art Exibition  2022/23


          St. Louis Artists' Guild

          Anne Metzger Memorial All Media Exhibit  2017 (Judges Award)

          Reclaim  2017  (Judges Award)

          Piece of Paper  2018

          For Every Positive There is a Negative 2018

          Essence of Form 2018 (Second Place)

          Anne Metzger Memorial All Media Exhibit  2018

          Artists Guild 2019 Members Show

          An Idea of Order 2019

          Art in Isolation (on line show) 2020

          Two Person Show 2020

          Ann Maritz Member Show

          Abstracted Abstraction 2021

          Artists Guild 2021 Members Show

          Solo Show 2021

          Anne Metzger Memorial All Media Exhibit  2021

          New Perspectives in Drawing and Painting 2022 (Best of Show)

          Constructed Visions 2022

          Member's Show 2022

          Visions of Form and Space 2023




          Jones Gallery Kansas City

          Kansas City Children's Hospital Benefit Show 2019


          Springfield Art Association

          Go Figure 2020  (Best of Show)


          Gallery 510

          October National 2020  (Best of Show)

          October National 2021 (Third Place)

          October National 2022 (First Place 2 dimension)

          Foundry Art Centre

          Global Impact 2020

          Focal Point 2020

          Paper Works 2020

          Self-Reflections 2021

          Houska Gallery

          Couleur (Summer Group Show) 2021

          Wild Thing (Winter Group Show) 2021

          Solo Show March 2022

          Group Show September 2022


          Quad Cities Airport Show

          Two person show  2022

          Cedarhurst Center for the Arts

          Shrode Fine Arts and Craft 

          Competition 2023  (Best of Show)  

          contact

          Call or email me with questions or comments.

          314.440.8072   alex@alexparadowski.com

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