Alexis Day
Alexis Day is a mixed media artist, originally from the coastal town of Bandon, Oregon. Utilizing her background in psychology, she investigates the themes of perception and memory, and how these processes relate to both individual and cultural identity. Working with a variety of mediums including paint, photographs, fabric, thread, and drawing media, Day creates artworks that resist categorization, and communicate through both their rendered subject matter, as well as the materials and processes used to create them.
Day is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon. She earned an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2019, a Bachelor of Science in Art Practices from Portland State University in 2017, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Oregon in 2010. In 2024 she had a solo exhibition at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Gravid: Tides of Becoming. In 2021 she had a solo exhibition, Schemata: Dissonance and Distortion, at the Forsberg Art Gallery, in Longview, Washington, a month long artist residency at the Studios of Key West, in Key West, Florida, and a solo exhibition, Faceted: Time and Expectations, at Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon. In 2020 she attended an artist residency at The Studios at Mass MoCA, in North Adams, Massachusetts, participated in the Forefront Symposium at Cynthia Reeves Gallery, in North Adams Massachusetts, and exhibited a solo show, Cascades: Synapse and Satin, at Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Other shows include the California Exhibition, at the TAG gallery in Los Angeles, California, Putting it Together 2, at the Foundry in St. Charles, Missouri, Figuratively Speaking at Liberty Arts Gallery in Bend, Oregon, and Dismantled, a solo exhibition at the Lodge Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
