Alexis Day | Faceted: Time and Expectations | Viewing Room

Alexis Day
Paradigm, 2020
mixed media
59 x 41"
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Detail images of Paradigm, 2020

“Confounding, romantic and so very tactile, Alexis Day’s work brings together painting, photography and textiles to create a true interdisciplinary practice where the various historical narratives of these art forms find new meaning.”

— MK Guth, Artist and Director of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies, PNCA

Alexis Day
Borderline, 2020
mixed media
48 x 32"

Details of Borderline, 2020

Faceted: Time and Expectations highlights new fabric works by Alexis Day that continue her exploration of surrealistic imagery through allegory and three-dimensional space.

New sculptural and fabric elements allow the images to protrude into the canvas foreground. Day combines a tactile beauty with a disquieting unease in her psychologically charged illusory spaces to encourage open-ended, dreamlike associations while the physicality anchors her subjects in the present.

Alexis Day
Antecedent, 2020
mixed media
72 x 49.5"
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Details of Antecedent, 2020

Day’s subjects of female figures and isolated interiors interweave historical narratives, daydreams and memory. Created with source material photographs printed on textiles, these works are reconfigured through collage and embellished with sewn or embroidered details.

Alexis Day
Introspect, 2020
mixed media
32 x 25"
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Details of Introspect, 2020

“Alexis Day’s artwork continues to expand our experience of space in the built environment, as well as in our psyches, with her mixed media sewn tapestries. This new work delves into the personal – using images of herself and family, asking us to unpack the sentiment of her fabricated images.”

— Nan Curtis, Artist and Faculty Chair, PNCA

About the Artist

Alexis Day is a Portland-based mixed media artist, originally from the coastal town of Bandon, Oregon. Using her background in psychology, she investigates the impact of perception and memory on individual and cultural identity. Day earned an MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2019, a BS in Art Practices from Portland State University in 2016, and a BS in Psychology from the University of Oregon in 2010. Recent exhibitions include Putting it Together 2, at the Foundry (St. Charles, MO), Figuratively Speaking at the Liberty Arts Collective (Bend, OR) and Dismantled, a solo exhibition at the Lodge Gallery (Portland, OR). In 2020, Day was an artist-in-residence at the Studios of Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA).