User:Wagsolv/Alexandra Levasseur

Early life and education
Alexandra Levasseur is a Quebecois Canadian painter, filmmaker, and sculptor. She was born and raised in Shawinigan, Québec, Canada in 1982, and after extensive art education abroad returned to Québec to study film and set a base for her career.

Levasseur got a B.A. in Fine Arts and Graphic Design in 2006 at the University of Costa Rica, then moved to Barcelona where she studied Illustration and Techniques of Visual Communications at EINA School of Art and Design, graduating in 2008. In 2012 she began studying Animation Film at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal. Her work has been featured in numerous galleries, magazines, and books.

Levasseur’s style takes after Surrealism, predominantly utilizing the human figure and landscape to create art about gender, femininity, and the relationship between humans and nature. As of late she has been combining sculpture and painting to create mixed-media art.

Career
Alexandra Levasseur began participating in art fairs and group fairs in 2008, during her studies in Barcelona. (her website) After returning to Canada, she won two scholarships from Concordia University in 2013 and 2014. In 2013 she was also invited by SHOWStudio London to collaborate during Fashion Week in Milan, for which she drew drawings of the various fashion shows. (Artsy) All this was prior to her graduation from Concordia University.

Her work has been exhibited in galleries around the world, and interviews with her have been published in numerous magazines, books, and websites. (Artsy) As of 2021, her most recent exhibitions have been shown at the Montréal Galerie C.O.A.. (her website)

Levasseur was awarded a grant from the Canada Council of Arts in 2017 and won a Prix Spira at the Fantasia Festival in 2018 for her film La singularité. (her website)  

Themes in art
Levasseur’s style takes after Surrealism, predominantly utilizing the human figure and landscape to create art that explores philosophical questions about the meaning of existence and all things being connected. The spirituality of returning to nature, understanding biology, and connecting the feminine to nature, informs the majority of Levasseur’s work. Her female figures, according to Minus 37, “often submerged in water, a symbol of emotions and receptiveness of the feminine principle, represent the beauty of Mother Nature.” They often appear lonely, puzzled, and contemplative, as if not truly present in their surroundings (the two being artificially collaged together could be a visual metaphor) but intrinsically part of a natural cycle that they cannot fully comprehend.

She has in the past used collage rather than sketching to plan her art pieces, resulting in paintings that often resemble mixed media collages, it is unclear whether she continues to use this process for her more recent work. As of late she has been combining sculpture and painting to create mixed-media art.

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