Great press for the Delaplaine show in the Frederick News-Post

This excellent profile was written by Lauren LaRocca, arts reporter for the Frederick News-Post, the local paper in Frederick, MD:








Artist transforms trash ... and herself in the process
Originally published January 15, 2010

"Individually, the pieces of Alexandra Zealand's installation, made of browned coffee filters, resemble tentacles. Together, they play with the negative space of the Delaplaine's New Gallery to create an earthy, fantastical place.

Her solo sculpture exhibit, "Transformations," explores the transformations of organic objects to art, and as the objects were transformed, so was the artist. That was her intent." (read more)

Delaplaine Preview (Jan. 9 - Mar. 13, 2010)

I installed my show at the Delaplaine today, and I'm happy to report that I think it looks great, and that Diane Sibbison, the gallery manager, was fantastic to work with. The wing piece from Ofrenda has evolved again, and is therefor the newest thing in the show. I've titled it "the thing with feathers"


Here's a mediocre video walk-through, with my junk still in the gallery:

working photos for a piece on Fibonacci

I was working on photos today to send to Greenbelt for a installation I'm doing there in May:

Fantastic write up from Sharon on Pendulum

My friend Sharon Pendana writes a blog called pendulum, which she describes as "The random musings and myriad inspirations of a bespectacled, red metal wearing, travel-loving, chocophilic stylist in the People’s Republic of Brooklyn."

A professional stylist by day, Sharon and I met when we lived on the same street in Brooklyn, and our dogs became friends. We've stayed in contact in the years since, and as fate would have it we settled close to where her mother lives. Sharon was able to see my Artomatic 09 piece this summer (ironically also running into a childhood friend at the same time), and apparently that got her thinking about my work.

So check out Sharon's Trove post on me and my work, not just for her insight into my inspirations, but also for her remarkable writing. And then read her blog for more fantastic writing. And if you need a stylist, Sharon's your gal.

Solo Show at the Delaplaine (Feb. 6 reception)

I will have my first solo show at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center in January/February, which in and of itself is very exciting. But I just received an email from Diane Sibbison, their Manager of Events, letting me know that they had chosen to use a photo of my work for an add they're running that month, in Maryland Life, and the January issue of Art in America. I'm more than a little bit stunned and amazed by the add.

Ofrenda edit

I've been messing around with the piece - decided to take the vertebrae out. I still wish the angle came up more in the middle, but...

For Ofrenda 2009 - the most literal piece I've ever made

This is definitely a draft, a 'throw it at the wall and see what sticks' kind of piece.


















It's definitley not 100% where I want it. It's made in 2 pieces, that previously hung (in 2002) from the ceiling, touching in the middle to steady each other. For this incarnation I made a sort of wax frame, so that it can hang on the wall, but when I made that part I was worried about not having enough of the structure embed into the wax, and as a result I didn't put the two pieces in at the correct angle from each other. So the center bones should come up more in the middle.

The section hanging in the middle is made of chicken vertebrae, strung with beads. I've been trying to figure out what to do with these pieces for a long time (maybe a year?), so this is their first foray into form. They're sort of working for me...

I think I may need to add something more, above the piece in the center, but I'm not yet sure what.