The Strawberry Tiger

This painting was inspired by a color variation in tiger's that gives their coat a faded red color.  I imagine the mother deer in this painting is telling a story to her baby about the Strawberry Tiger.

ALEXIS KANDRA, The Strawberry Tiger, oil and metal foil on wood panel, 16" X 20", 2017  SOLD

The Mountain

This painting was made for a group show, currently up at 287 Bleecker Street, Manhattan NY.  The show is up through May 30th, 2017.  Check it out if you are in NYC!

With this painting, I wanted to have the circle become more of a sphere.  I used the angle of the grid and animals to describe the depth and curve of the sphere.

I imagine the animals piled on top of each other are forming their own mountain, their own foundation of an ecosystem.  Without all the parts of the ecosystem, the structure would fall apart.

ALEXIS KANDRA

The Mountain

oil and metal foil on wood panel

36" X 36"

2017

SOLD

The Canopy

ALEXIS KANDRA, The Canopy, oil and metal foil on wood panel, 36" X 48", 2016

This painting features a family of macaws.  A scarlet macaw, a blue and gold macaw, and their hybrid offspring.  The snake is an emerald tree boa, strangely uninterested in the parrots.

As with other recent paintings, I have inverted the colors outside of the circular portal.  I imagine that when the creatures are in that inverted space, everything looks normal to them. 

To test that the inversion is working, I will periodically photograph the painting in progress and invert the image to check on it.  Here is an inverted image of the final painting.

Living Fossils

ALEXIS KANDRA, Living Fossils, oil and metal foil on wood panel, 36" X 48", 2016

This painting is inspired by ideas of life and extinction. It features a coelacanth fish, the classic idea of a creature once thought to be extinct millions of years ago, only be found alive and unchanged in the present. It also includes a Chinese white dolphin, a creature soon to be extinct as habitat destruction lowers its population. Both are living fossils in this painting.

The Dragoness and Her Mate

This is one of my most recent paintings. 

This painting is inspired by the Chinese symbols of the dragon and the phoenix. Together, these two celestial animals represent balance and harmony. As a couple, the male dragon and the female phoenix are an ideal balance of yang and yin. They are an auspicious pair, bringing prosperity, order, and good fortune.

For this painting, I imagined my own version of the dragon and the phoenix. I used the komodo dragon and the peacock, two very different animals but with some similarities in biology. I like to imagine what might hatch from their clutch of eggs.

ALEXIS KANDRA , The Dragoness and Her Mate , oil and metal foil on wood panel , 48" X 48" , 2016

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Cat Series

I have been working on smaller paintings on panel, and the domesticated cat has been a popular topic.  I have made two paintings featuring domesticated cats so far.  Commissions are available!  Contact kandra.art@live.com for more information.

Alexis Kandra

The Odd-Eyed Cat and the Balinese Starling

oil and metal foil on wood panel

18" X 24"

2015

Sold to a private collection

Alexis Kandra

The Instinctual Hunter

acrylic and metal foil on wood panel

18" X 24"

2015

Sold to a private collection

New Paintings in a show in Brooklyn

I have been working on new paintings.  All of 2015 has been a blur of making new work.  This is one of my latest pieces.  I just completed it today for a show that is opening this Friday, November 6th!  The opening is from 7-10 pm at Koda in Bushwick, Brooklyn.  The show will be up for a month afterward, so if you are in NYC, come check it out :)

ALEXIS KANDRA, From Above, oil and metal foil on masonite panel, 24" X 36" , 2015

More work to come, stay tuned....