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Alex Blau (b. 1970, Austin, TX) has an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and works primarily in painting. She has had solo shows at several venues, including Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, Firecat Projects in Chicago, Gallery Seomi in Seoul, Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami, Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston, and the New Britain Museum of American Art.

Blau is the recipient of several awards including a Joan Mitchell MFA grant. She is currently teaching art at Vanderbilt University and working in her studio in Nashville, TN.

Alex Blau's geometric paintings draw from a variety of sources and have unexpected associations. By variously utilizing graphic languages associated with things like disposable consumer goods, computer generated architectures and unfolding mandalas, Blau’s work both points to abstraction’s open-ended possibility and highlights its incorporation into mass culture.

- Alex Blau, Artist Statement, 2017

She will participate in a group show, titled Luminous Animals, at Whitespace in Atlanta opening June 30. Blau also has an upcoming solo show, tentatively titled Build Love, at Zeitgeist Gallery opening on September 2, 2017 and running for two months.