Static Age is a culmination of recent works that remember the days and friends of Alexis’s youth. The memories behind these pieces are personal, but she describes how they tap into a collective social consciousness from a group of now-adults today. While the scenes and objects within them may change, growing up is inevitable across generations. 

Adopting the languages of painting, soft sculpture, and textiles, visual artist Alexis E. Mabry explores social stereotypes through observation, anecdote, and parody. Mabry collects stories, point of views, things she encounters in her community, and landscapes that resonate with shifting ideas of storytelling. She finds the idea of a person or object more compelling when it lives in the popular imagination, with a tenuous connection to lived reality. Objects that come with these territories are artifacts that hold memory and identity. 

Alexis E. Mabry (b. 1985) grew up in Dallas, Texas. Mabry moved back to Texas after studying at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (2011) and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond (2013). She is a 2019 BFA graduate from Texas State University. Recent exhibitions include Childhood Memories at FLAX Studio in San Antonio, Texas and Everything Is Fine at Meyers Street Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Static Age will be her first time exhibiting work in Portland.