“You have a good head and a heart that believes in it.”
Artist Bio
Alexis Rompilla is an artist and designer who is more commonly referred to as Lexi. She was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania but is currently living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Studies and a Minor in Advertising from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art.
Lexi started her career as a multidisciplinary artist through working in West Philadelphia’s community arts organization Spiral Q. She taught classes alongside other artists in school programs and participated in events such as the 2019 Peoplehood Parade. During her junior year of college, she studied in Rome, Italy for a full academic year. This time abroad was spent traveling, continuing her fine art practice, and working in Galleria Anna Marra, located in the heart of Rome’s ancient Jewish Ghetto. She assisted well established, contemporary gallery owner and art collector Anna Marra. She has been published in Diario Romano and worked directly along side mid-career artists such as Elvio Chiricozzi, Veronica Botticelli, and Khen Shish. Lexi continued her career in galleries by working for artists and establishments such as James Dupree and The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Most recently she has began learning and growing as a registrar for the Alfred O. Deshong Collection located at Widener University.
Lexi is presently working as a gallery associate for Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia and spends most of her free time somewhere close to nature gaining inspiration for her fine art practice. .
Artist Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist, yet the core of my work is photography and drawing. Every refined artwork of mine starts with a simple photograph, or doodle in a journal. My practice is very introspective and meditative. Although each artwork of mine holds a lot of my personal memories, I aim to illustrate these thoughts and feelings in a broad, relatable manner. I examine honest human experience through place, memory and atmosphere, then create landscapes or characters that display a specific state of mind, or mood.
The biggest inspirations present in my practice are psychology and nature, focusing specifically on the in-betweens of life; the social drain of wanting to leave a party early, the sunrise after a night of no sleep, or the warmth you feel as you sit across from a laughing couple in a coffee shop. I typically combine mediums such as bookmaking, printmaking, painting, drawing and photography to explore new methods to make a product. The reason I make art is to promote honest thought and normalize vulnerability in others, by being vulnerable and honest myself.