AESPYNE BROOKS
THE COLOR HEALING
AUGUST 8 - NOVEMBER 8, 2022
AESPYNE ALIX, Bweza (2021), Oil and Collage on paper, 27 3/5 × 19 7/10 × 2/5 in.
EXHIBITION
Dab Art Co. is pleased to present THE COLOR HEALING, a solo exhibition of works by Aespyne Alix. View the online exclusive THE COLOR HEALING in its entirety on our collectors platform ARTSY (Aug 8 - Nov 8, 2022).
The Color Healing, features portraits of community members affected by trauma during the pandemic and their personal journey to healing using multimedia and journaling interviews. Aespyne continues to build her community by teaching K-8 Art on the West side of Chicago. As a teacher Aespyne creates and implements art curriculum that reaches both academic and social emotional needs to underserved communities.
“Each color has a feeling to me, and when I can create a feeling on canvas it eases that feeling in the physical and emotional sense for me. I’m calm.”
-Aespyne Alix
Aespyne Alix is a Tulsa, Oklahoma born contemporary artist based in Chicago. As a child Alix was deeply shaped by her parents' friendship with the late American Abstract painter, Norman Lewis’ wife, Ouida. Aespyne spent her summers admiring the artist's old sketchbooks and abstract paintings hanging up in his wifes Oklahoma residence. This profoundly influenced Aespyne’s love of art at an early age and also provided a source of comfort for anxiety. Creating art to relax the mind. Alix has held exhibitions and artists salons focused on mental health advocacy and awareness in communities of color. She has worked in collaboration with Lucy Ford and other artists in exhibitions at SXSW and Art Basel. Aespyne has been featured in the Bougie Art Gallery’s Abstract Art Now magazine which featured current and up and coming abstract artists. Aespyne has also been a guest speaker at Indiana University South Bend and Her Art, a night dedicated to women of color in the city of South Bend Indiana. Alix also spent time in Barcelona Spain under the RARO residency and exhibited internationally at Exposicion Colectiva in 2021. Upon returning to the states, Alix exhibited her second showing in downtown Chicago, BLVK February 2022 on Michigan Avenue.
Private viewing rooms, artwork details and and collector acquisitions are available on ARTSY.
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