ABOUT LEXI S.B. ART

My name is Lexi Seymens-Brackett. I grew up in SOCAL with my parents and younger brother. I’ve been drawing and painting since I was old enough to hold a pencil or paintbrush, and I’ve also had a book in my other hand since then. Art came naturally to me and was something I felt joyous creating. Along with charcoal and paint as a medium, I also did performance art through dance for 13 years. I was a self-taught artist until my first year of high school, when I took my first art class, and I didn’t continue until two years ago in a college course. I am an upcoming art student at CSUMB, where I hope to grow more into my art and what it says about me. I would draw from memory or whatever was before me as a kid. My first still life was a bowl of fruit on my grandpa’s kitchen counter, and from there, that was how I grew my art skills until high school.  Much of my studio art is focused on life around me. Whether it is physically in front of me or from my books, they are all where I draw inspiration from.

            Strong women and soft femininity are depicted throughout my collection so far, with an opening for the viewer's imagination to infer what they believe is telling of the piece. Soft femininity is a new terminology for being a “girly girl” or “lover girl”. The perspective on strong female characters, whether in books, shows, or movies, is that they don’t have the ability or room to be feminine or princess-like. In the pieces of my collection, I found that they can be both and inspire other women that being girly doesn’t mean you can’t be strong.  The beauty of the kind of art I’ve created so far is that the audience chooses the storyline behind a single figure on the canvas or sheet. In the future, with more public art pieces, I want to continue that theme of projects with different communities and continue my studio art with books coming to life—a paintbrush in one hand and a book in the other.