March Spotlight - Alec Huxley

"Coming of the silent wave"

The work of Alec Huxley is a mirror of the contradictory nature of human duality. As a dream state would it invokes past and future, logic and absurdity, reason and lunacy. The brush strokes are laid with such a soft, yet concise facility as to invoke a sense of another reality unfolding before our eyes upon the finite space of the canvas. Alec’s work traverses many roads in his own neural circuitry; from the finessed aesthetic of surrealism, to the phantasmagoria of the science fiction and western pulp magazines of the 1940’s and 50’s, to a certain sense of existential search for truth are all uniquely encapsulated in a way to give the canvases a Kubrickian sense of depth in both composition and concept. We are happy to present this month’s "Spotlight" of this intense and introspective artist: Alec Huxley. To see more from Alec’s brush be sure to go to www.alechuxley.com

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I like the anonymity of masks and helmets. I like thinking in binary - black and white, male and female, good and evil, not necessarily because I believe that's how things are but because they're usually definitely not. To show things simplified is a comforting, unspoken reminder of how complex they are. I like technology and thinking about the future and I like imagining life in the recent past (particularly the American West) and I also like combining the two. The space helmets are a symbol of exploration but also of science and knowledge. The characters frequently levitate but they're wearing normal clothes - its whimsical but there's a disconnect and the illusion might break at any moment. I like juxtaposing symbols and people. I like boiling things down to archetypes. Domestication is a thin veneer and the animals are a reminder that we're animals just the same. I make a lot of my characters like I see myself - floating around the world, trying to protect my head while exploring the beautiful craziness.
                                                                                                                   -Alec Huxley

"Starship Trooper Redux"