Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Nadine Alexeev
Normal
Painting
2026
Oil on Canvas
12" x 16"
Filter 1: Normal.What is "Normal" when everything is curated?
“The first piece in my Filtered Series, is 'Normal'. The image that claims to be 'no filter'. In reality, each image uploaded is selected, edited, and performed to the viewer. The Filtered Series examines what we consume when what we consume is each other. This confrontational portrait returns the gaze back at the viewer, and asks what is Normal?”
Work by
Nadine Alexeev
Contemporary Artist & Painter
“The self does not split cleanly; it replicates with the quiet distortion of each iteration. What remains of the original is only the ghost of a signal, flickering beneath a version that has already...” [More]
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