About the Artist

Alex Spalding is a daring intuitive, a true artist. The risks he takes are invariably accompanied by his lifelong interest in the nature of femininity, his devotion to portraiture, and a visual language drawn from his exchanges with graphic and commercial art. His paintings are like emotional iconography: in the same way that a religious icon, whose apparently miraculous symbolic truth is in fact a harnessing of elements such as line, shape, texture, and form, Alex balances an economy of vibrant, expressive strokes of paint with large impersonal voids of white space, until the composition emerges from disintegration. A good painting, he likes to say, is one that communicates clearly and elicits strong feelings in the viewer. This is master painter Alex Spalding at his best: bold, expressive, yet restrained.

Selected Exhibitions

2026 | Solo Exhibition, Soft Animals, Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA
2026 | Make It Pop!, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2025 | New Now VII, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2025 | Art All Night, Artworks, Trenton, NJ
2025 | February Among Friends, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2025 | Solo Exhibition, Wild Side, The Jane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2024 | Bodies In Motion, 20*20 House Gallery, Lansdowne, PA

Exhibitions Curated

2026 | Feral Form Fantasies, Kiosk Gallery, Lansdowne, PA
2026 | Venom & Velvet, FaceClock Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Interviews

'Alex Spalding—Wild Side, Inner Landscapes, and Emotional Contrast', The Exchange - Feb 11, 2026

'An Interview with Alex Spalding', InLiquid Magazine - Feb 2, 2026