Raised in Patagonia, Argentina, Alexa Horochowski immigrated with her family to the United States at the age of ten. She spent her formative years in a small, Midwestern town and went on to study journalism and creative writing at the University of Missouri. During her senior year, she began studying photojournalism and became interested in fine-art photography. Five years later, she went on to pursue an MFA in photography and printmaking at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since then, Horochowski's art practice has expanded to include sculpture and painting. Her work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally. She is currently represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago and Braga Menendez Gallery in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Horochowski is Assistant Professor of sculpture at St. Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, Minnesota.

In her large-scale paintings, Horochowski exploits the bright colors and line quality of children's fables, fairytales, and coloring books to create distilled moments that are provocative and ambiguous. As if trying to be children one last time, adolescent girls swing from trees, take rides in rickety boats, and fearlessly test the boundaries of their last Indian summer. The spectacle of their enthusiasm is designed to seduce the viewer while drawing attention to the illusion inherent in the adult recalling of childhood. Idyllic landscapes offer a vision of a Shangri-la that never was or could be.

Horochowki's work is currently on display in her exhibition The Unicorn in Captivity at Monique Meloche Gallery, featured in this week's Flavorpill CHI.

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