Alexandra Jonscher (b. 1997, Chicago, Illinois) is an artist exploring the frontiers of painting in the post-digital age, producing work that crosses painting, photo-media, digital art, sculpture, and installation.

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Her practice explores what it means to be human in our current digital age as she collaborates with software, algorithms, AI and machines to create uncanny abstractions. Her work is in conversation with the histories of painting, digital art and Internet culture, exploring how to blend these reference points into what she thinks of as ‘simulated paintings’ that translate artificial materials into tangible objects. 

 

Jonscher’s practice draws from reflections on the post-truth political landscape, online identity construction, and the uncanny tension between simulation and reality in the digital age. Her works act as a quiet resistance to systems of algorithmic control, surveillance, and optimisation, by bringing her expressive painterly gestures and human touch into industrial, mechanical and coded environments. Her bold, layered works invite viewers to look closely, to sift through their fragments and layers of information to find the human presence quietly lurking beneath the surface and behind the screen.

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Alexandra Jonscher is an American-Australian artist based on Gadigal, Cammeraygal and Borogegal Country in Sydney, NSW.

 

Alexandra Jonscher graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art (First Class Honours) from Sydney College of the Arts in 2021. She was awarded the Zelda Steadman Young Artist Scholarship and has exhibited artwork in exhibitions and prizes across Australia, including Praxis Artspace, Campbelltown Art Centre, Gosford Regional Gallery, Bankstown Art Centre, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and Annandale Galleries. She has participated in international artist residencies in New York and was an artist-in-residence at the North Sydney Council Primrose Park Artist Studios.