Alexis Amann
Double Ophelia installation at Rollup Gallery Double Ophelia (after Millais) Double Ophelia detail (sea monster Ophelia with Corinthian eyes and migraine arc) Double Ophelia detail (Corinthian eye) Double Ophelia detail (flowers) Double Ophelia detail (after Millais) Double Ophelia (detail) Double Ophelia detail (women and elephants never forget, nor does Dorothy Parker) Hedgewitch and Baby Beluga Hedgewitch and Baby Beluga detail Bearded Lady (lost at sea) Boob Monsters Girl and Femme Demon Eye Demon White Flounder (pink hearted) If (Sea Anemones Love Ed Ruscha) Anemone Dentata Pink Eyes Flounder Queer Fish (pinky) Yellow Flounder (mouthy) Awkward Flounder Gold Tooth Flounder Queer Fish (yellow) Love Flounders Stand In the Way (Flounder) A Girl and Her Demon Becky's Demon Femme Demon Wood Sketch for Don't Give Up the Ship project Don't Give Up the Ship, SFAC Art in Storefronts installation project on Market Street, San Francisco. Collaboration with Jonathan Burstein Mermaid detail from Don't Give Up the Ship Mermaid detail with sea level rise, RIP Chinook, CA SB375 tattoo and drowning hand from Don't Give Up the Ship Loose Lips Sink Ships detail, from Don't Give Up the Ship Kelp Ladies detail from Don't Give Up the Ship Kelp Kewpies detail from Don't Give Up the Ship Wave detail from Don't Give Up the Ship SF Barnacle and waves detail (collaboration with Jonathan Burstein) from Don't Give Up the Ship Wave detail from Don't Give Up the Ship, 2009 Lost Highway is Married to the Sea (installation view) Lost Highway is Married to the Sea (detail) Lost Highway is Married to the Sea (detail) Lost Highway is Married to the Sea (detail) Lost Highway is Married to the Sea (detail of desert) Lost Highway (detail of the Small Olympian Bear Express) Lost Highway is Married to the Sea (detail of pufferfish and girl) Lost Highway (detail with Buffalo Jump, apologies to David Wojnarowicz) Lost Highway is Married to the Sea (detail of albino ratfish and hearts full of water) Azazel and the Bearded Ladies (installation view) Azazel and the Bearded Ladies (detail) Azazel and the Bearded Ladies (detail) Falling For Salmon Ghosts (installation view) Falling for Salmon Ghosts (detail) Falling for Salmon Ghosts (detail) Falling for Salmon Ghosts (detail) Girl Loves Narwhal The Center Cannot Hold Chinook Center Cannot Hold Chinook (detail) Flounder and Peg-Leg Sea Lion Pieta with Dead Mermaid Sea Lion Pieta The Same Skirt Same Skirt (detail) Girl and Baba Yaga's House are Still Together Girls Make the World Girl and Flounder Communicate Girl Loves Piranha Flower (Hand) Girl Loves Piranha Flower (Snails) Girl Loves Piranha Flower (Rabbit Couple) Girl Loves Piranha Flower (Ocean) Girl Loves Piranha Flower (Quail Elbow) Girl Loves Piranha Flower (Quail Elbow detail) All the Ships at Sea Voyage of the R'ship, Squid and Whale Voyage of the R'Ship, Lady Vomitous Harpies Hang out with the Aten Harpy Talks to a Headless Bird Sleep With the Fishes Ribs Don't Lie Penelope (installation view) Penelope Penelope (top detail) Penelope (top detail) Penelope (detail middle) Penelope (detail of bottom) Penelope (detail bottom right) Penelope (Kraken detail) Kraken Loves Baba Yaga's House Kraken Loves Baba Yaga's House (detail) Kraken Loves Baba Yaga's House (detail) Kraken Loves Baba Yaga's House (detail) Kraken Loves Baba Yaga's House (detail) Gayly It Lived and Gallantly It Died Gayly It Lived and Gallantly It Died (zombie rabbit detail) Gayly It Lived and Gallantly It Died (Dearest Dead, Darling Dead detail) Surrogate Surrogate (detail of running house) Surrogate (houses detail) Land of the Dead Resume
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Alexis Amann’s paintings and installations on cut paper contain layers of worlds populated by girls, monsters, fish, mermaids, rabbits, houses, boats, whales, demons, harpies, and other flora and fauna driven by the forces of love and water. Raised on the Oregon Coast, she received a BA in Drawing/Painting/Printmaking from Portland State University in 2002, and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006. Alexis currently lives and works in San Francisco.