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ABOUT THE ARTIST

 

ALEX POWERS has been a self-employed painter and teacher for 28 years. He exhibits in galleries in five states and among his many national juried exhibition awards is the Gold Medal in the 1997 American Watercolor Society Exhibition. He travels and teaches workshops in this country and abroad. Alex has also juried many national exhibitions and is the author of Painting People in Watercolor, A Design Approach, a Watson-Guptill publication, now in paperback.

His painting style has evolved into a personal, content-dominated imagery. Using gouache, charcoal, pastel and sometimes collage on illustration board, his loose realism combines an emphasis on drawing with an awareness of the art of our time. "I attempt to deal with issues such as human origins, religion, philosophy, racism, [and] economic inequality. These overwhelming issues are difficult to deal with, but they are what interest me and, since I believe in the singularity of life and art, these issues are the content of my work."