Alexandra Giannell is an American artist who also spent several years residing in Europe, interweaving phenomenological discussions of vision, perception, and identity into her painting and drawing practice. In 2019, Giannell was selected as an Artist in Residence with the Marek Maria Pienkowski Foundation in Poland researching the Holocasut and also as the inaugural Artist in Residence with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project collaborating with incarcerated individuals in medium-security men’s prisons exploring haptic drawing, interconnection, and spatial infinity.
In 2020-21, Giannell presented on her touch-based work and pedagogical approaches with the University of Delaware, Coker University, Airy Knoll Artist Residency, and in the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) and Foundations in Art: Theory & Education Conference (FATE). Her work has been the recipient of multiple grants and awards, including the Florita Eichel Memorial Purchase Award from the Evansville Museum of Art, History + Sciences in IN in 2020 and the Foy Gilmore Goodwyn Memorial Award from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in AL in 2019.
Giannell is currently an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing in the Department of Art and Design in the School of the Arts at Utah Valley University. Prior, she taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Core at Indiana University and as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Auburn University. Giannell holds a BFA in Painting with a minor in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an MFA in Painting from Clemson University.
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Alexandra Giannell