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About My Artwork:
I am interested in cycles of construction and destruction - I think critically about my natural and built surroundings and question human legacy. My artwork is informed and inspired by ongoing observation and experience, documentation, sampling, and research of my urban environment. Through drawing and printmaking, sculptures, installation, and audio/video work, I aim create studies and scenarios that blur time, and create new contexts for reconsidering our landscape.
This is in direct dialogue with an ongoing study of nature, architecture and urban planning, of the histories embodied by our built-environment, and the relationships between people, their structures and infrastructures, and the natural landscape. How do trends in urban development, construction, and economics reflect culture or philosophy? My aim is to develop a better understanding of what forces are behind this constant state of flux, and to incite thoughtfulness regarding the decisions involved.
Biography:
Born: 1988, Houston, TX, USA
Alexander Squier is an interdisciplinary artist, working across media including printmaking, drawing, sculpture, installation, video and sound. Based in his hometown of Houston, Texas, he works out of his studio at BOX 13 ArtSpace in the city’s East End District. He has taught printmaking at the University of Houston, Art League Houston, the Houston Printing Museum, and headed up the printmaking department at the Glassell School of Art (Museum of Fine Arts Houston) from 2016 - 2020.
Some of Squier’s notable projects from recent years include Remnants / Visions, a 2015-16 installation transforming a derelict ranch home into an archaeological museum in the Sharpstown District, and The Houston Brick Archive, a mobile museum, map, and archive of nearly four hundred bricks collected over several years from all around the city. The latter was funded by the Houston Arts Alliance’s Individual Artist Grant, which was awarded in 2018, and was most recently displayed at the historic Julia Ideson Building in Houston for several months in 2024.
Squier earned his Bachelor's Degree in Studio Art from the University of Rochester in 2010, and his Master’s of Fine Arts Degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (Tufts University) in 2013. In addition to his studio practice and teaching, he is also a curator and organizer, currently serving as the Exhibitions Director at Sawyer Yards, and formerly heading up exhibitions as Director of Programs at the Alta Arts in the Gulfton District from 2021 - 2022.