Alexandra Jonscher is an artist working in expanded painting and post-digital painting practices. Working across painting, photo-media, sculpture and installation, her practice integrates digital technology into her painting process, using software for brushes and digital images as her palette. Jonscher’s painting practice is rooted in expressive, gestural abstraction with an interest in language and mark-making, often meditating on the subtle difference between a scribble and a sign. Jonscher’s work invites us to interrogate her intricate and layered use of media with a scrupulous eye to find hidden what is lurking within. Her practice reflects on the nature of a post-truth political landscape, identity construction in online culture, and the uncanny tension between simulation and reality in the digital age. 

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Alexandra Jonscher moved to Australia from Chicago, Illinois when she was 5 years old. She identifies as queer.

 

Jonscher graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting) (Honours) from Sydney College of the Arts in 2021 and was awarded the Zelda Steadman Young Artist Scholarship (2019). She has exhibited artwork in exhibitions and prizes across Australia, including Campbelltown Art Centre 'Fishers Ghost Prize: Open Category' (2022), Gosford Regional Gallery 'EMERGING' (2023), Bankstown Art Centre 'Taboo' (2022), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art 'Hatched: The National Graduate Show' (2020) and Annandale Galleries 'Soft Copies' (2022). She has exhibited internationally in New York on Govenors Island, the School of Visual Arts New York, and upstate New York 'Delicate Proximities' (2024). Jonscher has participated in art fairs including The Other Art Fair (2017) and FOUNDATIONS Art Fair on artsy.com (2024). She regularly shows work with DARLINGS.

 

Jonscher has participated in international artist residencies in New York (2024) and is currently an artist-in-residence at the North Sydney Council Primrose Park Artist Studios. In 2021 she founded an upcycled clothing label, Dylan Alexander as an offshoot of her art practice.