Collection: Alexis Serio

Alexis Serio received her M.F.A. in painting from The University of Pennsylvania and her B.F.A. in painting from Syracuse University. Serio is Professor of Painting at The University of Texas at Tyler where she has taught since 2004. She is represented by Carrie Coleman Fine Art, Norfolk, Virginia. Selected accomplishments for Serio include exhibitingher work alongside artists such as Andy Warhol and Richard Diebenkorn (“Philadelphia Collects:Works on Paper” Delaware Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware), being a finalist for theprestigious Hunting Art Prize (Houston, Texas), completing an artist residency at The GullkistanInternational Residency for Creative People (Laugvartn, Iceland) and participating in aninternational group exhibition at The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan). Serio hasan extensive national exhibition record and is currently represented by Edgewater Gallery (Middlebury, Vermont).

My work is a metaphor for time, memory, and perception. My paintings are philosophical and formal investigations about the visual perception of light and color, the personal experience of remembering and inventing, and the natural illusiveness of time. The paintings are selective and ideals of the truth, yet they are still the truth. They are reflections of my past, the events that I have drawn out as precious time and the stories of beauty I wish to share with the viewer. I seek imagery that is constantly moving such as light and water as a platform to explore such philosophies. I do not provide a true foothold beyond a horizon line or a suggested landscape palette for which to understand my paintings. Still, the viewer usually recognizes a particular
place he or she has seen before. Through the execution of illusion and abstraction, I cultivate the personal experience of remembrance for the viewer.