Lexie Harrell’s paintings invite viewers into a dialogue between memory, material, and transformation.
Lexie Harrell creates textured, luminous paintings exploring time, memory, and transformation through abstraction, realism, and metallic pigments.
Her work combines mixed media, heavy texture, metallic pigments, and luminous abstraction, resulting in artworks that feel both ancient and alive. Across her newest pieces, A Break in the Clouds, Magnolia, and Oxidized, Harrell explores themes of memory, growth, and the inevitability of change, always returning to the beauty found within time itself.
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A Break in the Clouds, Lexie Harrell, 2024, mixed media on canvas, 48 x 36 in. / 121.92 x 91.44 cm.
In A Break in the Clouds, Harrell layers mixed media into a meditation on weathered memory. Cracked textures glow with celestial highlights, suggesting fissures of experience that catch and reflect light. The oxidized copper patch introduces a relic-like quality, a reminder of how time imprints itself on both material and mind. The abstraction of clouds ties the composition together, creating a dreamlike scene that drifts between the earthly and the eternal.
Magnolia, Lexie Harrell, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 in. / 121.92 x 91.44 cm.
With Magnolia, Harrell shifts into a striking dialogue between realism and abstraction. Blossoms rendered with delicate precision seem to emerge from a textured, copper-flecked void. The result is a painting that embodies growth, life blooming against an ambiguous backdrop. The interplay of sculptural textures and reflective metallics adds a tactile dimension, encouraging viewers to linger not only on the image but on the material presence of the canvas itself.
Oxidized, Lexie Harrell, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 in. / 101.6 x 76.2 cm.
Oxidized serves as a meditation on time’s quiet alchemy. Created with metallic pigments to evoke weathered copper, the surface shimmers between decay and renewal. The tactile swirls and streaks of patina transform the canvas into something elemental, reminding us that age is not erasure but transformation. In this way, the work redefines beauty through endurance and change.
Together, Harrell’s works form a continuum of transformation, memory fractured and illuminated, growth emerging from darkness, and time itself becoming art through oxidation. Her canvases are less depictions than vessels, holding the tactile presence of life’s passage. By merging texture, metallic radiance, and deep emotional resonance, Harrell positions herself as an artist who transforms material into metaphor, reminding us that the beauty of aging lies in its ability to reveal truth.
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