Alex Charriol
ALEX CHARRIOL continually challenges himself in the face of the unknown. His paintings all start with 'automatic drawing', coming from his raw emotions. His work dissects surface interactions between groups of people, hoping to transmit to us ones personal underlying struggles.
He raises the question of where we fit in this world. Charriol uses his energy to embody the human experience through a sense of struggle and pain. Despite a sense of darkness, he reveals vulnerability and romance that all humans are capable of.
Born in Honolulu Hawaii, to French parents and raised on three continents, Charriol is truly multicultural, straddling the America-Europe-Asia axis since his birth. He started painting during high school in London, where his accomplishments lead to his first solo exhibition at the Sydney Museum in London in 1995.
Charriol continued formal art/painting at college at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and later Parsons School of Design in New York City. He has since been exhibited and collected by galleries and museums around the world including the Lelia Heller Gallery in New York, the Ayala Museum in the Philippines, the Yoshii Gallery of Paris and Japan, and Artspace in Dubai to Bangkok with Lotus Gallery.
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