Alex Ferrante

Website:

alexferrantestudio.com

Biography: 

Alex Ferrante is an artist whose sculptural practice engages ceramic materials. Currently based in Texas, Alex is the John Hirschi Family Resident Artist at the Janita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual Arts at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls. Alex holds an MFA in Studio Practices with an emphasis in Ceramics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was the recipient of the Zeldin Fellowship from The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was an artist in residence from 2019-2021. In addition, he has completed artist residencies in Pennsylvania and New York state where he spent time at Millersville University and Chautauqua School of Art. He attended the Art and Philosophy seminar and workshop at the American Academy in Rome and Anderson Ranch. He has participated in, and presented exhibitions across the United States and internationally at San Angelo Museum of Art (San Angelo, TX) South Texas Museum of Art (Corpus Christi, TX) University of Colorado Boulder Museum of Art (Boulder, CO) The Clay Studio (Philadelphia, PA) Millersville University (Millersville, PA) Living Arts (Tulsa, OK) and Singapore Art Museum (Singapore)

Artist Statement: 

My artistic practice pivots around a central question, how has landscape, a representation of that which is exterior to ourselves, informed the creation of the human subject? By examining western depictions of landscapes, its parables and myths, I aim to dismantle and reimagine culturally inherited relationships between the outside world and the human body. My practice exists between the conscious self as subject, and the world beyond as object.