Alexa Hawksworth Represented by Bradley Ertaskiran

January 2023

Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to announce the representation of Alexa Hawksworth. The artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery will take place in May 2023 in the Bunker space.

Hawksworth populates her oil paintings and graphite drawings with both fantastical and realistic characters unique in their exaggerated gestures and expressions: grimacing teeth, elastic limbs, and unhinged cackles show a dizzying range of physical and psychological states. Her scenes are often imbued with an innovative sense of movement and time, as bodies and objects are propelled across the canvas or captured by the whims of a powerful environmental force. Together, her work shows an imagined, off-kilter world in which desire and emotion burst from the body and collide with the physical realm with maximum, high-velocity impact. Drawing from theatre, performance, and film sources, Hawksworth’s distinct illustrative style combines meticulous rendering with bold painterly gestures, set to an electrifying colour palette.

Alexa Hawksworth (b. 1994; Hamilton) is a painter and illustrator based in Montreal, Canada. Hawksworth received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 2020. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Theta (New York), and Pangée (Montreal) as well as a forthcoming solo exhibition at Bradley Ertaskiran. Recent group and duo exhibitions include Franz Kaka (Toronto), NADA Miami with Bradley Ertaskiran, Sibling Gallery (Toronto), Projet Casa (Montreal), and Afternoon Projects (Vancouver).

To consult Alexa Hawksworth’s profile, click here.

Photo: Fatine Violette Sabiri