Anastasia Alexandria

Anastasia Alexandrin

Drawing is my primary language—one I have carried from Ukraine to Philadelphia.
Working in charcoal, I engage a material that is both immediate and unforgiving. It resists correction. It records pressure, hesitation, and time. Each mark remains as evidence.
The work centers on the feminine as a site of tension—strength and vulnerability held in the same space. Identity is approached not as fixed, but as something accumulated, eroded, and continually reformed. Figures emerge and dissolve, existing somewhere between presence and memory.
There is no interest in resolution. The drawings remain open—layered, unstable, and exacting in their restraint. What is revealed is often partial.
At its core, the practice is an act of reduction. To strip away excess. To arrive, as closely as possible, at something unguarded.