Alexi Worth
Alexi Worth’s painting Desktop visually represents the challenges and frustration that may ensue when we face a blank page. In this work, a wooden desktop is covered with sheets of blank paper and the large hand crumpling a sheet of paper is “an emblem of dissatisfaction, of failure, of starting over.” Even though more of our work these days takes place on a laptop in the digital realm, this painting still aptly captures many familiar feelings connected with the creative process, or when we must meet a deadline or complete an assignment.
Alexi Worth has been exhibiting in New York since 2001 and is represented by DC Moore Gallery. He has received awards from the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). He attended the Yale School of Art, earning a BA in 1986. After attending Maine's Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 1989, he received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts in 1993.