Alexandra Silverthorne MFA ’10

Alexandra Silverthorne is a Washington, DC-based artist and educator. She uses the camera as a means to understand and explore spatial environments and encounters while often times focusing on the mundane or overlooked elements. At the core of her studio practice, she examines ideas of space and place. Working with both analogue and digital processes, she allows the conceptual ideas to drive the form and medium for each project. Her current work focuses on four distinct urban American landscapes. Using rivers as an anchor point for each city, the images ask questions about sustaining life during a climate emergency. Images are often manipulated with local natural resources exploring the tension and delicate balance in our natural and built environments.