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 interested in highlighting tender moments shared outdoors between lovers, friends, and found family. I spend as much time outside as possible sketching, hiking, backpacking, and camping. I take direct inspiration from these travels and weave a multitude of landscapes together to signify a vast space found within a stretched period of time. Here, I examine identity, sexuality, human futility, anxiety, passion, love. I’m interested in the emotional power of color and embrace a spectrum that unapologetically celebrates Queer Joy. Sometimes palettes are restricted, but always representative of a mood and moment.

I take a loose approach to world building. Characters repeat, landscapes intertwine, time ebbs and flows. Like memories drifting in a dream, time isn’t linear but rather fragmented, sometimes circular, and subverts traditional modes of storytelling. Often, my work rejects a canonized rectangle– a conveniently linear ever-present window, easily produced, an after-thought. Instead I’m drawn to wibbly-wobbly shapes like a puddle portal or a comet’s crashed shadow. Recently, perspectives collide as shaped scenes form within existing rectangular landscapes. This representation of time and space emphasizes a world both magical and real, liminal and intersectional– one that reflects a society shifting from compulsory heterosexuality to embracing one’s queer identity.

As I combine memories and dreams, my hopes are to excavate the complexities of a Queering of Space— one that's delicate as a butterfly’s wing, constant as the sun, and rooted in mystery.