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Alejandra Almuelle was born in Arequipa, Peru. She spent few years in Pizac in the Sacred Valley of Cuzco, a center for ceramic making. Peru is a country in which the abundance of clay has made this medium a language of artistic expression. Clay is its own idiom, and being there, she began to speak it. After she moved to Austin, she started working with clay. Addressing the functionality of the medium as well as its sculptural expression has been equally important for her. Her work has been
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View moreArtist Style: Visual: Contempory, Figurative; installation
Artist Medium: Visual Arts: Clay, Encaustic, Mixed Media
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