Alice Pixley Young (b. Washington DC) creates immersive installations of moving shadows, hand-built miniatures, and lush, hypnotizing video. Her work reframes ideas of the built and natural environment citing Land Arts and the Hudson River School and examining our policies of resource extraction and expansionism. Using ashes for temporal wallpapers, hand-cut tarpaper for large scale installations, salt-crystalized gouache drawings, and the lost wax process for cast glass sculptures, her use of materials echo the human history of resource extraction. The layered mythologies of her narratives create seductive and unsettling tableaus and raise the questions: what lies beneath us? What was here before? What will remain after?

Young received a BFA in Fine Arts/Painting from Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL and participated in the New York Studio Program. She received an MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a MA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in Ohio. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (2020), Akron Art Museum (2022), Sarasota Art Museum (2022), 21c Museums (2014-24), The Print Studio London (2019) and UICA (2012 and 2016). In 2015 Young participated in the contemporary light exhibition, InLight Richmond, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and was awarded Best in Show. Select solo shows include Taft Museum of Art (2019), University of Kentucky’s Bolivar Gallery (2024) and University of Rochester’s Hartnett Gallery (2024). She is a grant recipient from the Puffin Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, Summerfair AIA and has attended numerous residencies including Stove Works, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel, Ragdale, Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Hambidge. Her work can be seen in Sculpture Magazine, Hyperallergic, ÆQAI and others. She is a member of A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.