Ep. 011 - Alessandra Maria - Iconographer and Iconoclast

Art Grind Podcast - Podcast tekijän mukaan Dina Brodsky, Marshall Jones, Sophia Kayafas and Tun Myaing

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Having cut her teeth at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Hawaii-based artist Alessandra Maria has continued to produce ornate works of pencil and gold leaf on paper stained with coffee or walnut ink. The works evoke a sense of timelessness - at once medieval and modern, blending a Byzantine iconography with an urge to create her own new icons. We got a chance to talk to Alessandra about her beginnings as an artist in New York, her new life in Maui, and the drive behind her work -- challenging tra...

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