Alejandra Villegas
Painter, Illustrator
“To emerge through brushes, drawing, sgraffito, through glazes and forms that express my life history, my time and space or what I was in other bodies also in other probable lives.”
Born on December 19th, 1977 in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her training has been based on courses with different teachers, such as Roger Von Günten and Holly Roberts from whom she took preference for the technique making it very particular and personal in her works, she studied fresco at the Accademia del Giglio in Florence Italy, in 2009.
She has had more than 25 solo exhibitions in her country and in the United States.
The real interest of her artwork is to have a work that can be appreciated from an international point of view, she is a very driven towards change, which can be a daring thing on the part of critics and collectors but she is audacious and always runs the risk of moving from landscape to figurative, from expressionist to classic portrait or still lives.
She is a traveler by nature who has soaked in these experiences and it can be noticed in various of her series and exhibitions. She firmly believes that travel nourishes and is an investment of life, from her travels as a young woman to Europe, Morocco, as well as her most recent visit to the continent of Asia (India, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia).
Currently she continues to reinvent herself, and is grateful to be the apprentice of excellent teachers.
