The profundity of Mark Alexander’s imagination is unmistakeable from his first series of paintings in which a clutch of black-and-white baby photographs from his own infancy swell to enormous size – invested with all of the dignity and disquieting power of giant monochromatic obituary daguerreotypes. The death-in-lifeness and life-in-deathness which unsettles the so-called Baby sequence...
-excerpts from A Blacker Gold press release by Kelly Grovier
Self Portrait II is in the permanent collection of Pompidou Centre, Paris
Exhibited:
The Bigger Victory / Mark Alexander, solo exhibition, Haunch of Venison, London
The Westreich Wagner Collection, group exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris
