Biography & Artist Statement

Biography
Alexis Beucler (she/her) is an American painter. She was born and raised in Florida where she earned a BFA in studio art and BA in English Literature at Florida State University. She holds her MFA in Painting & Drawing from the University of Iowa with secondary focuses in Printmaking and Book Arts. Alexis lives and works in Los Angeles, California where she is a tenure-track visual arts instructor at Pasadena City College.

Alexis has featured work in more than thirty domestic exhibitions across the US in California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota. Solo exhibitions in the midwest include: Harry & Virginia Murray Gallery (2021), Clear Lake Art Center (2022), MacNider Art Museum (2023) and the Blanden Art Museum (forthcoming 2027). She has been published in Studio Visit Magazine and I Like Your Work Podcast. In 2019 she participated in the Grant Wood Public Art Residency focusing on community-centered public art. Since then Alexis has completed 5 large-scale mural projects across the midwest, each spanning over 20 feet.


Artist Statement
I’m enamored by the magic of the world and its endless possibilities. Living among flickering fireflies and humming cicadas, I record tender moments shared outdoors between lovers, friends, and found family. This series journeys through North America’s geologically diverse regions— from the swamps of the American South and Midwestern sun dogs, to alpine lakes in the High Sierras, Cascadia, and Rocky Mountains, to coastal camping and wandering desert moonscapes. Bringing these inspirations back into the studio, I weave a multitude of moments together in paintings and artist books.

I take a playful approach to world-building. Having grown up with sitcoms and cable television, I am interested in loose storytelling devices where we are introduced to a cast of characters out of order— time warps, and we find ourselves in an uncanny valley. Like a dream, time isn't linear but fragmented, circular, and subversive. I repeat patterns, shapes, environments, and characters to form a distinct symbolic language.

Often, my work rejects a canonized rectangle– a conveniently linear, ever-present window that is easily mass-produced and treated as an after-thought. Instead, I am drawn to wibbly-wobbly shapes like a puddle portal or a comet’s crashed shadow. This representation of space emphasizes a world both magical and real, liminal and intersectional. Within these shapes, I examine identity, sexuality, human futility, anxiety, passion, and love. I embrace the emotional power of color, utilizing a spectrum that unapologetically celebrates Queer Joy. Whether my palettes are restricted or vibrantly expansive, they are always representative of a specific mood and moment.

As I combine memories and dreams, I hope to shift my initial perception of nature to excavate the complexities of a Queering of Space — where the mysterious glow of firefly light is our guide.