Alix Gaytan

Gaytan’s work explores the abject and its relation to chaotic human behavior. She creates
images of insect humanoids forever confined in their constant fragmentation within chaotic
atmospheres. These humanoids are born from body fragments with diverse mutations, while they
become surrounded by dysfunctional human organs and vascular systems. By employing
painting, drawing, and printmaking techniques, bodies and backgrounds coalesce into an
attraction-repulsion frenzy. When fear and confusion are expressed through our bodies, they are
violently transformed into something uncanny. She seeks for her audience to question their
separate wholeness to the degree that the images enter and reframe their sense of human reality.
Ultimately, her ambition is to offer a visual testament to the durability of the human mind and its
never-ending metamorphosis.

Alix Gaytan is a Mexican-American artist born in El Paso, Tx. She earned an MFA in Studio
Art with a concentration in painting from Penn State University, Pa., and a BFA with a major in
painting from the University of Texas at El Paso. Currently, she lives and works in El Paso, Tx.