ABOUT

I paint faces because I'm obsessed with people — the ones I love, the ones I pass on the street, the ones I'm still figuring out how to be.

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I'm Alexsi Alcequiez — a self-taught painter and mixed media artist born and raised in New York City. My work moves between abstraction and realism, using oil, graphite, pastel, pen, and digital mediums to build layered, gestural portraits of the world around me. I'm drawn to fragmentation — the idea that a face can tell more when it's broken apart than when it's whole.

My practice is rooted in Afro-Latinx identity, queerness, masculinity, and self-love — themes I return to not because they're comfortable, but because they're mine.

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In 2025 I was named a Mural Arts Fellow in Philadelphia, exhibiting work across the city and installing a temporary public mural. I've also shown work at the Corona Queens Public Library (2022), been featured in Black Minds Publishing's "In My Palms" (2022), and exhibited at the Union City Museum (2017).

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I'm based in New York. The work continues.

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