Alex Blaisdell is a young artist who studied painting and printmaking at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) in Boston, USA, where he was awarded the Studio Foundation Award of Recognition (2019), the Foundation Painting Award (2021), and the George Nick Auction Award (2022). In 2022, he curated the MassArt Painting Senior Thesis Exhibition, and in 2021, his painting won “Best of Show” at the Marblehead Festival of Arts in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Alex came to ´ace to work on his project Transportal, which uses printmaking and variable editions to pursue a visual record of his personal relationships with unfamiliar places in Buenos Aires and how spaces in the city, the global community, and him, are connected. More specifically, and in his own words, “I’m interested in systems of transit, such as planes, trains, streets, bridges, as symbols for connections across space. The act of remaking feels natural to my practice, considering my desire to convey the idea of different facets and eras taking place in a single location. The landscapes, buildings, street corners, and interior objects that I depict allude to the remnants of lives and experiences I can’t begin to know; yet I feel compelled to acknowledge them with fictional images which offer segments of these complicated, unruly, infinitely larger places. I often use the visual language of a window or portal because it acknowledges my own experiences in transit, and aims to evoke the feelings of contemplation and longing associated with the act of gazing out a window.”