Alexandra Jonscher is an artist working in abstraction and post-digital painting practices. Her practice integrates digital technology into her painting process, utilising software for brushes and digital images as her palette. Jonscher’s painting practice is rooted in expressive, gestural abstraction with an interest in language and mark-making, often meditating on the subtle difference between a scribble and a sign. Jonscher’s work invites us to interrogate her intricate and layered use of media with a scrupulous eye to find hidden what is lurking within. Her practice reflects on the nature of a post-truth landscape, identity construction in the digital age, and the uncanny tension between simulation and reality. 

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Alexandra Jonscher (b. 1997) is American-Australian and moved to Australia from Chicago, Illinois when she was 5 years old. She identifies as queer.

 

Jonscher graduated with first class honours from Sydney College of the Arts (2021) and was awarded the Zelda Steadman Young Artist Scholarship (2019). She has exhibited artwork in exhibitions and prizes across Australia, including Campbelltown Art Centre (2022), Gosford Regional Gallery (2023), Bankstown Art Centre (2022), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2020) and Annandale Galleries (2022). She has exhibited internationally in New York on Govenors Island, the School of Visual Arts New York, and upstate (2024). Jonscher has participated in art fairs including The Other Art Fair (2017) and FOUNDATIONS Art Fair on artsy.com (2024). She regularly shows work with DARLINGS.

 

Jonscher has participated in international artist residencies in New York (2024) and is currently an artist-in-residence at the North Sydney Council Primrose Park Artist Studios. In 2021 she founded an upcycled clothing label, Dylan Alexander, as an offshoot of her art practice.