ALEJO
  • WORKS
    • Projects >
      • 2025 TROPICAL LAB SINGAPORE
      • 2025 | Emersión
      • 2024 | Prototype 1.0
      • 2024 | Bound/Unbound
      • 2023 | IN WORK WE TRUST | ¡CHAMO, ¿QUÉ HICISTE CON EL CARRO?
      • 2023 | DRAW POINT TO POINT
      • 2023 | PORTALS IN A STATE OF SUNSHINE
      • 2022 | OVERLAID '22
      • 2022 | GTIS & PARTNERS
      • 2022 | CHOCOLATE BOX
      • 2022 | COLUMBIA MFA THESIS EXHIBITION
      • 2021 | THE (better late than never) SUMMER SHOW
      • 2021 | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CLASS OF 2022 FIRST YEAR SHOW
      • 2021 | GÜELCOME TO MY BEREAVED CHIMERA OF LA LA LAND
      • 2020 | DRAWN: CONCEPT & CRAFT
      • 2020 | ARAC COLLAGE SERIES
      • 2019 | GREEN GO HOME
      • 2019 | BOYBO++ ( AFTER MATISSE )
      • 2019 | BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
      • ARCHIVE >
        • 2018 | REFURBISHED
        • 2017 | PRE-REFURBISHED
        • 2016 | UNTITLED
        • 2015 | THIS WASN'T WHAT WE ASKED FOR
        • 2014 | SONY
        • 2013 | SALVAGE
        • 2012 | MECHANICAL PATTERNS
        • 2011 | PLOTTED PENS
        • 2010 | HUE
        • 2009 | UNDERWATER
        • 2008 | PHOTOGRAPHY
        • 2007 | COLONIALISM
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  • ABOUT
    • About the work
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My work is an ongoing act of accumulation—of marks, materials, memories, and histories. Rooted in the legacy of Process Art and Abstract Expressionism, I embrace unpredictability, layering, and repetition as tools for transformation. Paintings and installations unfold through saturation and erasure, resisting final resolution while building complexity over time.

An improvisational spirit of resilience, and resourcefulness guides my approach to both process and material. I often incorporate found objects, construction remnants, and fragments of place into my work; embedding labor and environment directly into the surface. Rather than pursuing a fixed idea, I follow intuitive gestures, allowing each mark, scrape, or addition to redirect the work. In this dialogue between chaos and order, randomness gives rise to rhythm, and meaning emerges through the act of making.
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  • WORKS
    • Projects >
      • 2025 TROPICAL LAB SINGAPORE
      • 2025 | Emersión
      • 2024 | Prototype 1.0
      • 2024 | Bound/Unbound
      • 2023 | IN WORK WE TRUST | ¡CHAMO, ¿QUÉ HICISTE CON EL CARRO?
      • 2023 | DRAW POINT TO POINT
      • 2023 | PORTALS IN A STATE OF SUNSHINE
      • 2022 | OVERLAID '22
      • 2022 | GTIS & PARTNERS
      • 2022 | CHOCOLATE BOX
      • 2022 | COLUMBIA MFA THESIS EXHIBITION
      • 2021 | THE (better late than never) SUMMER SHOW
      • 2021 | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CLASS OF 2022 FIRST YEAR SHOW
      • 2021 | GÜELCOME TO MY BEREAVED CHIMERA OF LA LA LAND
      • 2020 | DRAWN: CONCEPT & CRAFT
      • 2020 | ARAC COLLAGE SERIES
      • 2019 | GREEN GO HOME
      • 2019 | BOYBO++ ( AFTER MATISSE )
      • 2019 | BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
      • ARCHIVE >
        • 2018 | REFURBISHED
        • 2017 | PRE-REFURBISHED
        • 2016 | UNTITLED
        • 2015 | THIS WASN'T WHAT WE ASKED FOR
        • 2014 | SONY
        • 2013 | SALVAGE
        • 2012 | MECHANICAL PATTERNS
        • 2011 | PLOTTED PENS
        • 2010 | HUE
        • 2009 | UNDERWATER
        • 2008 | PHOTOGRAPHY
        • 2007 | COLONIALISM
  • TOURS
  • CURRENT
  • ABOUT
    • About the work
    • CV
    • PRESS