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An example of work by Alexander J (Alex) Couwenberg
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Biography from Riverside Art Museum:
| Born in 1967 to Dutch-Indonesian immigrant parents, Alexander Couwenberg was exposed to art and culture from a very young age. In his childhood home in California, where both Dutch and Indonesian were spoken, he was taught to understand and appreciate the art of Indonesia and the craft associated with the Dutch masters. His parents recognized his early interest in the arts and encouraged him to participate in formal art education as early as elementary school.
After showing great potential in painting and drawing in his high school years, Couwenberg went on to earn a Associates Degree in studio art from Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California. Couwenberg applied to the famed Art Center School of Design in Pasadena, California, where he was immediately accepted in the Illustration Department.
Couwenberg worked as a freelance illustrator to pay his tuition at Art Center and still managed to earn his Illustration degree in a record three years. Although very interested in illustration, the process of painting itself was more moving to Couwenberg than producing work that was commercially driven. He decided to enroll in a graduate program that focused on painting.
Couwenberg was accepted to the art program at the Claremont Graduate School under the direction of Roland Reiss. Couwenberg worked for two years under the instruction of artists Karl Benjamin, Roland Reiss, John Millei, and David Amico where he won a Merit Scholarship and went on to earn his Masters Degree in 1997.
Drawn to the mid century movement of non-objective abstract painting, Couwenberg?s connection with mentor Karl Benjamin was instrumental in the development of Couwenberg?s painting style and process.
Recently, Couwenberg?s work was included in ?Out of Line? an exhibition at the Riverside Art Museum focusing on the contributions of non-objective painting in Southern California.
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