Alexander Anne Mackenzie is a 32-year-old artist and illustrator from Ann Arbor, Michigan, whose unique artistic aesthetic has established her as a creative to watch in her adopted hometown of San Francisco, California.
Alexander Anne Mackenzie's highly technical work is the result of high-level training. She earned a BFA from Tufts University and then an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her artwork has been featured in galleries around the world, including the WAS Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark, the KRETS Gallery in Malmo, Sweden, and the Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco. Her work blends elements of surrealism, typography, and cartoon imagery to create an aesthetic specific to her.
Up next for Alexander Anne Mackenzie: A solo gallery showing at the Galeria Starter in Warsaw, Poland set for early 2012. Click through the gallery to see what about her typographic collages is setting the art world on fire.
Freaky Collage Art
Alexander Anne Mackenzie Creates Playful Typographic Illustrations
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