Artist Statement

Alexis Schramel is a queer artist practicing across disciplines for exploration within social practice, bio-wilderness, collaboration, and installation. She grew up rooted in rural farming communities of the Driftless Area along the Mississippi River. Influenced by growing up in this region, she explores the whimsy and brutality of nature. She attempts to connect the unspoken and unseen materialization of senses related to site-specific installations and human experience. Her work experiments with the thresholds of sensory perception - looking and seeing, hearing and listening, giving attention and awareness to what lies in between.