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Alexia Vogel (b.1991) has been credited with injecting new life into landscape painting, with her heady, lush realms depicted in vivid colour combinations and gestural, tactile oil paint. The landscapes portrayed, however, are not necessarily figurative: Her spontaneous, instinctive mark-making and thinned-down, free-flowing oil paint serve to locate, loosely, scenes somewhere between the figurative and the abstract, the imagined and the captured; space and light explored in dimensions both new and nostalgic. Intent on creating immersive worlds of reverie, Vogel desires to “take hold of the viewer and invite them into a space that is void of time and location, allowing them to create their own associations and imaginative experiences”. 

Since receiving the Simon Gerson Prize in her final year of study (2013), she has held solo shows in Cape Town and Sydney and participated in group exhibitions and art fairs in London, Paris, Sydney, Cape Town and Joburg. She has been awarded residencies in France and Japan, and her limited edition book, Along the Way, is held in the library collections of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and Pratt Institute.

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