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Alexandra Eldridge makes mixed-media works on board. She pigments and layers Venetian plaster, then scratches, burnishes and varnishes it to create rich, dimensional surfaces. She also uses waxes, liquid pigments, old texts and Chinese scrolls in her work. She has shown her work nationally and internationally for 20 years.
In 1970, Eldridge studied at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England; later she earned a bachelor of arts from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and served an apprenticeship with printmaker Mary Manusos there. She attended the Santa Reparata Graphic Workshop in Florence, Italy in 1992. Eldridge had further instruction in a master class with Elizabeth Murray at the Santa Fe Art Institute in 1995.
In 2004, she studied the daguerreotype process at the Photographers' Formulary in Montana.
A primary influence on her artistic and personal life has been the work of poet and artist William Blake. She was cofounder of Golgonooza, an educational arts foundation inspired by Blake, and was involved in its operation for 17 years. For the past six years, Eldridge has been living in Paris and New York as well as in Santa Fe, and has had artist residencies in Spain, Italy and France.
Eldridge has had several solo exhibitions at:
- Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- Galerie Selmersheim, Paris, France
- Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA and Nevada City, CA
- Lee Weber Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
- George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA