Alex DiMercurio . About

Alex DiMercurio is a Wellington based contemporary artist who is notorious for her gorgeously rich and textural paintings.
 
From early beginnings as an art student Alex had paintings selected and exhibited at The Dowse gallery - now The New Dowse - Lower Hutt, Wellington in 1990.

Since then she's exhibited and sold paintings, which are now in private collections throughout New Zealand, France and Australia. More recently her paintings have featured in some New Zealand publications, and have also been selected as finalist for a few national Awards.

She is completely influenced by her reverence of, and connection to nature to explore ideas and narrate them visually. Often depicting the beauty of light in natural settings and its interplay with shadows.

Her current work is concerned with exploring fleeting moments. "I'm fascinated by the slight blur of movement. A split moment in time in which a scene subtly becomes greater than the sum of its parts. It becomes part of a greater essence, merged with light, atmosphere and ether. It becomes whole. In a deeper sense this blur echoes my belief that everything in the universe is connected at all times."
 
Alex likes to challenge composition to achieve strong contrasting works imbued with light, colour and potency, and her painterly technique often reflects the physicality of the subject. Frequently combining three-dimensional textural impasto paint, layered with fluid translucent acrylic where brushstrokes are barely caressing the canvas, while revealing a multitude of layers underneath.
 
Born Paris France, immigrating to Sydney Australia as a toddler and later moved to Wellington NZ (aged 15), which has been her home for over 20 years.

Awards:
Selected - 3 pieces, The Kiwi Diary, 2011
Finalist - Selected New Zealand Artfind calendar 2010
Finalist - Signature Piece Art Award - NZ Affordable Art Show 2009
Selected - National Drawing Award touring exhibition 2008
Finalist - Telecom Art Awards 2006