By gathering familiar trash objects in unfamiliar and dynamic contexts, Alex transforms the material, evoking life, growth, and hope.
During grad school at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, she began creating installations of discarded citrus peels as a visual and physical outlet to process her feelings of fragility, beauty and fear after the unexpected death of a close friend. Over the past 25 years Alex’s installations have expanded to encompass used coffee filters, driftwood, egg shells, old lumber, mechanics’ shop rags, discarded books and chicken bones.
Alexandra Radocchia Zealand lives in Northern Virginia.
