Alexandra Masson

    Female

    Born in: Crayford (United Kingdom) on 2 December 1960.

    Currently living: Caracas (Venezuela).

    Painting; Photography; Video; Installation; Sculpture; Digital Graphics;

    BIO

    Alexandra Masson (1960) apprehends to have and have not/to lose, the commotion and shock caused in her by external events, travelling as a metaphor of introspective displacements and exotic flora to translate them into a personal cosmovision of the transient nature of life, passing beauty and encounters/falling outs. Through direct untouched/modified digital photos and paintings, she privileges color and erases the limits of shape and form to express, codify, sublimate and re-channel her personal life-story. Heiress to two cultures by her Italian flight engineer and her Trinidadian English teacher mother and assimilated to a third one she knew nothing about, the Crayford, Kent, England-born artist has lived in Madrid, Buenos Aires, San Fernando (Trinidad) and Caracas, Venezuela, where she currently resides and moves between art, photography, simultaneous interpretation and translation.

    Alexandra Masson, Kent, England, 1960. British, resident in Venezuela since 1974.
    Private drawing and oil painting classes in Argentina and with Sylvia Levy and Consuelo Ginnari in Caracas, Venezuela
    1996 drawing trimester at Cristóbal Rojas art school, Caracas
    May 2008 Seminar ¨Metaphor and Creativity¨, by philosopher Lizette Nava
    October 2008 Workshop ¨Aesthetics: Art and Society¨, Centro Cultural Chacao
    August 2009 Course on ¨Portfolios and Statements¨, Centro Cultural Chacao and AECID
    March 2010 Drawing course at the Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas 
    October-December 2010: a series of art courses at Centro de Arte Los Chorros, Caracas
    May 2011: course ¨Photography as a contemporary artist´s resource¨ at Foto Arte, Caracas
    June 2011: Basic digital photography, AVECOFA, Caracas
    July 8 to 15, 2011: course ¨Finishing Inconclusive business¨ with Venezuelan photographer who lives in NY Ricardo Armas at Galería Cubo 7, Hacienda La Trinidad, Caracas
    October 2011: Drawing course with Venezuelan artist living in Paris Antonio Lazo at Centro Cultural Chacao
    October, November and December 2011: ¨Postmodernism¨ by Antonio Lazo, Oficina # 1, Caracas
    March-May 2012: course by artist Javier León on art and the femenine, art and photography and conceptual art at Galería 39, Caracas
    Abril-May 2012: Digital 1 photography course at Roberto Mata Escuela de Fotografía, Caracas
    July-August 2012: Course ¨Creation of Portfolios¨ by artist Gabriela Gamboa, Fotoarte Caracas
    Awards:
    March 2012: Fifth prize, Contest ¨Venezuela Reciclada¨, Alianza Francesca, Caracas
    November 1995: Single Prize in the New Authors Category, Salón de Arte Lagoven Caracas
    Showcase Winner of the Third, Fifth and Sixth 2011 and Third 2012 art rounds at http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/61968-alexandra-masson?tab=AWARDS
    April/May 2012: Publication of a photo on the cover of Publicarte art journal
    Individual exhibits
    September 30 to November 3, 2011: Exhibit ¨Eclectic Mix by Alexandra Masson¨, Chacao Bistro, Caracas
    February 24 to March 17, 2011: Individual photo exhibit of Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia at the Alliance Francaise, La Tahona, Caracas
    November 11, 2010: Private exhibit in private home, Bello Monte, Caracas
    January 22, 2009: ¨Beauty and Garbage¨ series, Restaurant Coffee & Art, Altamira, Caracas. 
    Collective exhibits
    September 30-November 3, 2012: Tenth edition of Salón Dycvensa, Caracas, Venezuela
    August 17-24, 2012: participation in 1st Salon Comarte Baruta, Caracas
    June 18, 2012: con 116 international votes, participation in Art Takes Times Square, giant screens in Times Square, NY, USA
    May-June 2012: participation in collective "Postales que caminan", taken to 5 cities in South America: Bogota, Quito, Lima, La Paz and Buenos Aires.
    March 2012: participation en II Photo Contest La Escondida, topic ¨Liberty¨.
    February 2012: Online photo contest 1fotoxdíax29días organized by Roberto Mata Escuela de Fotografía, in which we had 28 hours each day to send a photo of the day´s topic, for example ¨a suicidal watermelon¨, ¨deja vu¨, ¨country risk¨, etc.
    January-March 2012: participation in online photo contest ¨ConcursoMomentos¨ by Panasonic.
    March 4 and 5, 2012: 12th Velada de Santa Lucía, Maracaibo, participation in collective ¨Zapatos Viajeros¨ (Traveling Shoes) organized by artist Eliseo Solís Mora. 
    November 11, 2011: participation in art collective at Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA 
    August 20 – September 3, 2011: participation in art collective organized by Silver Tears Productions in Garden City, NY and Jamaica, NY, USA
    June 22 - July 15, 2011: participation in photo collective YO AMO CARACAS HOY AUN MAS, EspacioMAD Gallery, Centro de Arte Los Chorros, Caracas, Venezuela
    March 4 to 6, 2011: 11 Velada de Santa Lucía, Maracaibo, participation in collective ¨Territorio Desdibujado: Libertad y Auto-retrato¨  organized by artist Eliseo Solís Mora. 
    May 2009: ¨Suiche Urbano¨, Universidad Monteávila, Caracas, Venezuela.
    November 19 – December 18, 2010: One of the 62 artists selected from among 600 artists at the Ist Biennial of Contemporary Art, ULA Mérida, Venezuela
    October 17, 2010-January 15, 2011: VIII Salón Dycvensa, Celarg, Caracas, Venezuela
    August 2010: participation in collective 100sqft, Cholmsey Boys Club, London, England.
    April 27 – May 8, 2010: international art project ¨A Book About Death¨, Museum of Modern Art of Wales, UK
    February 2010: 7th. Drawing Salon "Carlos Serfaty", Atheneum of Guacara, Venezuela
    October 2009: 35 postcards at Mailart, Elder Street Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
    September 2009: XII edition of Contemporary Latin American Art, Museum of the Americas, Broward College, Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA.
    July 2009: XXVI AVAP-Guárico art salon, Atheneum of Guárico, Venezuela  
    March 2009: 9th. Velada de Arte de Santa Lucía, Maracaibo. Participation with artists of the Atheneum of Valencia, Venezuela.
     
     
    alexandra.masson79@gmail.com
    http://www.saatchionline.com/profile/247732
    https://www.virtualgallery.com/#!alexandra_masson_a509413/alexandra_masson_eclectic_mix_s7100
    http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Alexandra-Masson/49147089463
    Interview on SpotWebTV radio/internet
    http://www.spotwebtv.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&Itemid=512&id=1423
    March 17, 2011: Appearance in TV program ¨La Movida Cultural¨, TVES, Caracas
     

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