Ground and Unground Paintings 2012

Exhibited:

2012, Ground Unground, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London.

2013, Green Flower Street, curated by Ariel Roger-Paris, Tatiana Kourochkina Galleria D’Art, Istanbul, Turkey-

Further reading:

Picturing People: The New State of the Art, Charlotte Mullins. Thames and Hudson.

Reaper

  • Oil on canvas
  • 88.3 x 66.3 cm
  • 2012
Detail from Mark Alexander's darkly painted reinvention of The Reaper (after Millet) by Van Gogh.

Hands

  • Oil on canvas
  • 55.6 x 40.2 cm
  • 2012
Reinvention of Albrecht Dürer's Praying Hands in thick brown and yellow oil paints.

Sower

  • Oil on canvas
  • 81.4 x 65.2 cm
  • 2012
Reinvention of famous painting The Sower by Jean-Francois Millet. Shows by sowing in a field. This version is painted in thick dark browns and yellows.

Blind Garden Boy

  • Oil on canvas
  • 81.2 x 65.2 cm
  • 2012
Copy of Cezanne's Blind Garden by Mark Alexander in thick oil paint with dark colours.

Narcissus

  • Oil on Canvas
  • 110.5 x 92 cm
  • 2012
Copy of Caravaggio's famous Narcissus painting re-invented in thick yellows, blacks and browns oils. Wrinkled and distorted.

Adam and Eve II

  • Oil on canvas
  • 80.5 x 60.5 cm
  • 2012
Oil painting of Adam and Eve as children in heavy dark colours.