Sasha Alexandra

Sasha Alexandra is a multidisciplinary artist based in Loveland, Colorado. Through drawing and video works, she renders sensory experiences in virtual space. Alexandra holds a BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute, and is currently completing an MFA in Art Practices at the University of Colorado. In 2013, Alexandra received a Windgate-Lamar Fellowship from the Center of Craft. Her work has been shown nationally at galleries including Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO and Eutectic Gallery in Portland, OR.

Through the production of objects and images, I seek to translate sensory experience from “real”space into virtual space. Much of my work begins from moments of disembodiment—staring into an email inbox or scrolling endlessly through digital images, where attention drifts and the body recedes. My drawings respond to this condition by proposing that tactile sensation can be suggested, and even activated, within a flat, visual field
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Recently, I have been making drawings composed of strips of strapping tape layered onto white paper. Embedded with parallel fiberglass filaments, the tape absorbs and reflects light, producing optically charged marks that shift with the viewer’s position. These subtle changes motivate the viewer to move around the work, turning looking into a physical act. What begins as a purely visual encounter gradually becomes bodily, as perception is shaped by motion, proximity, and light. In this way, the drawings function as quiet translations of touch—records of sensation that hover between material presence and virtual experience.