Alexandra Cantle

Alexandra Cantle

Cantle’s work is inspired by her personal experience with dyslexia. Through community engagement that focuses on exchanging stories with other dyslexics, Cantle creates works on paper that highlight the feelings of shame, doubt, isolation, and triumph that result from the living with language-based disabilities. Using language as a material, Cantle interprets the internal struggle to communicate feelings. As an interactive process-based element of this show, Cantle invited artist Tamarind Rossetti to lead a project working with language as material. Rossetti works with types of communication that explore emotional and physical space, internal and external language, and the intricacies of memory.

Cantle received her bachelor’s degree in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles and just recently earned her Masters of Fine Art, from the Public Practice program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.