For MYTHOS, Chloe Alexander presents a series of ten new works that continue her exploration of narrative, memory, and myth through the timeless medium of printmaking. Rooted in the rich traditions of the craft yet unmistakably contemporary in vision, Alexander’s prints evoke a world where innocence and complexity intertwine. Her imagery—children, birds, and ornamental motifs—calls to mind illuminated manuscripts and classic storybook illustrations, yet each piece resists simple interpretation. Instead, they offer a visual mythology of the everyday: layered, textured, and open-ended. Through her process-based practice, Alexander invites the viewer to linger in moments of curiosity and nostalgia, to rediscover wonder in the familiar and the forgotten.
Printmaking, for Alexander, is both language and alchemy. Working primarily in silkscreen and mixed media, she transforms the mechanical into the expressive, using layers of ink, pattern, and drawing to create works that feel at once spontaneous and meticulously crafted. Each print in this body of work reveals her fascination with process—the push and pull between control and accident, repetition and variation. In doing so, Alexander honors printmaking’s long lineage while expanding its boundaries, treating the press not merely as a tool of reproduction, but as a space for reinvention. The resulting works are one-of-a-kind prints and varied editions that balance technical precision with the unpredictability of experimentation.
At the heart of Alexander’s practice lies storytelling—stories without words, told through gesture, symbol, and rhythm. Her characters seem suspended in time, caught between reality and imagination, much like myths themselves. The high contrast of her compositions recalls illuminated texts and graphic novels, while the tenderness of her imagery speaks to universal human experience: growth, transformation, and the persistence of wonder. As part of MYTHOS, Alexander’s work resonates as a meditation on how stories endure—passed down, reinterpreted, and reborn in new forms. Through her visual language, she reminds us that myths are not relics of the past, but living vessels of meaning, continuously shaped by those who encounter them.
