Born in Mysore, South India.
'Alexis Kersey hails from a British family that has resided in the southern Indian city of Mysore for three generations. His childhood was spent in both India and the U.K. while his training in art was anti-institutional and at the squatted knees of commercial sign painters on the pavements of Madras (now rechristened Chennai). A cartoonish vulgarity has been his trademark for a number of years, having established himself with an invented iconography that posited the mystical Indian seer against his more militaristic countrymen or innocent children against insidiously commercialized trends (Hare Krishna Punks, Company School Junkies, Yogic Nuclear Missiles, Spiritualized Sex Slaves, and the like). Kersey’s more recent works have tempered their icons with a confluence of materials: oil painting backgrounds are affixed with inlaid-wood panels, mirrors and enameled glass, framed with carved and painted flourishes. In these works, images, materials and techniques fuse to a theatrical finish, burgeoning on to a perversely decorative amplitude.' Peter Nagy
Alexis a self-taught artist and has been exhibiting since 1988 throughout India as well as London and New York. Selected solo exhibitions include The Mutiny, sponsored by the British Council and the Apparao Gallery, at the Karnataka Chitrakala Patrishath in Bangalore (2005); New Company School Paintings at Apparao Gallery in Chennai (2005 and 2006); and Portfolio 2 at the Shridha ...
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Lot no: 27244 
Size (inches): 49X60
Medium: Oil on Canvas
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Lot no: 27243
Size (inches): 60X48
Medium: Oil on Canvas
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Lot no: 27242
Size (inches): 49X60
Medium: Oil on Canvas
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