Shape of Life: Alex Anderson

Make Room is proud to present “Shape of Life,” an exhibition that introduces Los Angeles-based artist Alex Anderson’s vision of geometry as both an aesthetic language and a metaphysical foundation. This is Anderson’s first solo exhibition with Make Room. For Anderson, geometry is not merely a formalist motif or a symbolic echo of natural recurrence—it serves as the structural armature of being. Spirals, hexagons, squares, and triangles reappear across botanical, mineral, celestial, and anatomical space: in floral blooms, crystalline lattices, star maps, and corporeal systems.

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About Artist

Alex Anderson (b. 1990, Seattle) received his Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Chinese from Swarthmore College and his Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Anderson previously studied at the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jingdezhen, China, and was awarded a Fulbright Grant in affiliation with the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he continued his studies in ceramic art. His work has been exhibited across the United States, including at the Orange County Museum of Art (Costa Mesa, CA), Museum of  Arts and Design (New York, NY), The Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach, CA), and the American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA), Human Resources (Los Angeles, CA), The Hole (Los Angeles, CA), Venus Over Manhattan (New York, NY), Deli Gallery (New York, NY), Gavlak Gallery (Los Angeles, CA; Palm Beach, FL), and Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY), as well as internationally, including at Public Gallery (London, UK), Gallery COMMON (Tokyo, Japan), and Baik Art (Seoul, South Korea).

Anderson’s work has been reviewed by Artsy, Artforum, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Cultured, and The Los Angeles Times.