Alexandra Jamieson
Artist and Curator
About Alexandra
Alexandra Jamieson audaciously spends much of her waking life making art despite not having any art school debt. A third-generation self-taught artist from Portland, OR, she gets her studio dirty in Brooklyn, NYC. In her other work, she has published five books on food, communication, and personal growth, and was the co-creator and co-star of the Oscar nominated documentary Super Size Me.
Her latest art includes the Abortion Trading Cards and has been featured in the Mona Niko Gallery, The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery, the Kunstraum Gallery, The Clio Art Fair, and Las Laguna Art Gallery. Her first solo show, Our Stories: Patterns + What We Inherit, opened at Compere Collective in 2022.
Alexandra was awarded a City Artist Corp grant in 2021, and curates group exhibitions featuring women, trans, and non-binary artists under the name We Create | NYC, a fiscal sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.
She creates commissions for private clients around the world and has been featured as a writer and coach in Oprah Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Good Morning America, CNN, USA Today, and more.
Contact: alex@alexandrajamieson.com
Abortion Trading Card 1 of 36, 2023 (2.5 x 3.5 in)
About The Abortion Trading Cards by Alexandra Jamieson
The Abortion Trading Card project began on the back of my mother’s bicycle as she rode around Portland, Oregon encouraging people to vote in the 1978 Oregon Governor’s race. Raised by back-to-the-land hippies, civic engagement was served at the dinner table along with homemade potato bread. Mom was an artist and both parents were teachers, but I didn’t go to art school because I didn’t feel talented.
From 2003-15 I wrote four books on natural health, but the 2020 pandemic and violent political times couldn’t convey the emotions and urgency in my heart. Turning to art as a self-care practice, my watercolor of an upside down American flag was immediately purchased by a friend: the painting wasn’t “perfect” but it made her feel seen and connected, and I realized that made me an artist. This series combines a lifetime of activism with my love of history and gallows humor.
This 36-card deck imagines a dystopian future where abortion care is totally illegal and women educate each other about reproductive health surreptitiously using playing cards. The cards contain anatomy, abortion history from around the world, vocabulary, and abortifacient herbs.
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Exhibitions:
2024 - BRIGID ALLIANCE 5th Anniversary Gala, NYC
2023 - “COLOR!” Juried Show, BWAC, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC
2023 - “Transplants” Juried Show, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
2023 - "Local Champion" Juried Show, Local Project, Queens, NYC
2022 - L I V I N G . L I F E Juried group show, Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, NY
2022 - Our Stories: Patterns + What We Inherit, Compere Collective, Red Hook, NYC (solo exhibition)
2022 - Summer Arts in The Bronx, Andrew Freedman House, Bronx, NYC
2022 - In Plain Sight: Animals of NYC, 8th Street West Village, NYC
2022 - Garden Party group show, Atelier Canal, Brooklyn, NYC
2022 - Life Aquatic group show, Atelier Canal, Brooklyn, NYC
2022 - 100 Small Works of Hope, 237 Park Ave, NYC
2021 - Exchanging Visions Art Exhibition, Brooklyn, NYC
2021 - Clio Art Fair (NYC, September 2021)
2021 - Freak Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition group show, Red Hook, NYC
2021 - Kunstraum Gallery group show, Brooklyn, NYC
2021 - Nostalgia, The Holy Art Gallery, London, England and online group show
2020 - Kunstraum Gallery group show, Brooklyn, NYC
2020 - Art Room Contemporary Online Gallery, “OPEN” Exhibition
2019 - Kunstraum Gallery group show, Brooklyn, NYC
2019 - Spirit, Personaland, online group show
2019 - Exceptional Talents group show, Mona Niko Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
CURATOR
2024 - Brigid Alliance 5th Anniversary Gala Fundraiser, NYC
2023 - Good On Paper group exhibition, Compere Collective, Red Hook Brooklyn
2022 - Summer Arts in The Bronx, Andrew Freedman House, Bronx, NYC
2022 - Censored: Pride Arts group show, Inked NYC
2022 - 100 Small Works of Hope group show, 237 Park Avenue
2021 - Exchanging Visions Art Exhibition Group Show, Brooklyn, NYC
2021 - Copake Arts Festival, Copake Lake, NY
2021 - Rock Arts: Women and Non-Binary Artists of Rockefeller Center at Jill Lindsey Boutique
2021 - Named Co-Curator at Jill Lindsey Boutiques
COLLECTIONS
2019: Cynthia Nixon New York Governor Campaign Headquarters, Brooklyn
GRANTS + AWARDS
New York City Artist Corp grant, 2021
1st Place Award, Conroe Art League Spring 2022 Judged Show, Conroe, Texas
Merit Award, Art Room Contemporary Online Gallery, “Gantry Crane: Navy Yards” 2020
Special Recognition, LightSpaceTime.Art Online Show, “Soul Scape 2”, 2021
PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
Multitudinous Musings: Review of Abortion Trading Cards, January 2024
Speaking Light Into Abortion: Podcast Interview, December 2023
N Magazine: Cover Art and Interview, December 2023
Authority Magazine: Interview, September 2022
Gotham To Go, September 2022
The Holy Art: Interview, May 2021
Artistonish Magazine, “Brooklyn Inner Stairway,” featured in May 2021
“Vesica piscis” cover art by Sounds True Publishing for book Radical Alignment, 2020
ArtDaily.org, featured cover art, July 2019
TheArtGuide.com, featured in Exceptional Talents exhibition, October 2019
COMMISSIONS
Silver Linings Small Business Initiative, Global, 2022
“Row House” for Row House Publishers in New Egypt, NJ, 2021
