Artist: Alexander Proulx

Date: 2020

Dimensions: 24x24

Medium: Digital drawing on stretched canvas

Alexander Proulx is self-taught, Chicago-based digital artist and painter who draws some of his inspirations from pop art, street art, naive art, and impressionism. What interests the artist is how these approaches tend to question the conventions of beauty and even what qualifies as "art." He is interested in how they exist(ed) on the fringes of the art scene or in some way challenge(d) the status quo. At the same time, there is something intuitive and accessible in each. There is a rawness which is relatable, a quality he seeks to reproduce in his work.
A theme that the artist is interested in exploring is how engaging with art, whether as a viewer or creator- and especially as it becomes more abstract- can help us to relate better to each other.