Alexia Timberlake

Title: Corolla
Oil and beeswax on wood
34.25”x26.5”

Studio:
ARTBOMB
1320 Pendleton Street
Greenville, SC 29611
864-220-3131

Directions:
From South Main Street, continue down Pendleton. Studio (Artbomb) is on right: #1320.

Artist Statement:
For the last several years I have explored the manifestations of the human body as vessel, as tool, and as found object. Recently, I have been more interested in going beneath the skin.
The correlation between of the opening of a flower and the opening of the body, animal or vegetable, is a concept I want to explore. Beeswax and oil on wood seem like appropriate materials for the study of archaic renderings of plant and human anatomy. Through this discovery of the delicate nature of wax, I have been able to answer my need to depict, sometimes at the microscopic level, hidden parts of a living thing.
Creating this waxen overlay over the surface of my paintings satisfies my need to establish a distance between the world depicted and myself. Beeswax serves as an ideal material for the creation of some kind of membrane or veil.
This pictorial marriage between art and anatomy is part of my journey to the most elemental part; i.e., my need to control the body as well as the perceptions of the body.