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Alexis Covato, a.k.a LEX, is a gallery painter as well as commercial illustrator. She studied Illustration at Columbus College of Art and Design as well as Fine Arts and Art History at Chatham College. LEX does editorial work for magazines and has worked with advertising agencies here in Pittsburgh. Among her clients are New York MOVES, San Francisco Weekly, Brunner, CalPOP, Point Park University, etc. She loves to exhibit in Pennsylvania but often sells her paintings to collectors in New York, California, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Audiences can also view her work in the book “EdgyCute” available through Random House.
Regardless of the client or venue, certain aspects of LEX’s work remain consistent; an abstract stylization of the human form, painterly brush stroke, and fluid line-work. Her paintings often reference history, religions, and philosophy while exploring how humans find purpose—specifically through ritual, myths, and social norms. LEX’s paintings harkens an otherworldly quality, which is inspired by her love of Byzantine Icons and German Expressionism. Though conceptually weighty these images are often darkly humorous, juxtaposing innocence and horror, divinity and obscenity, and beauty with oddity.
Alexis Covato currently lives in Pittsburgh and is available for both private and commercial work.
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