Working across painting, sculpture, mixed media, and interactive forms, Alexander's artworks respond to the stories, symbols, technologies, and belief systems that shape how people see, remember, and understand themselves.
His work investigates the relationship between images and belief, asking how stories become accepted as truth, and how belief is formed. Through an evolving visual language of figures, speech bubbles, flowers, stars, pixelation, and symbolic fragments, David Haig Alexander creates works where familiar motifs acquire new meaning through context, repetition, and viewer participation.
Alexander earned an MFA in Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and a BFA in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For more than twenty-five years, his work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally, including Washington, D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other locations.
Alongside his studio practice, Alexander spent more than a decade working in information architecture, user experience, digital strategy, interactive media, and product innovation for organizations including Marriott International, Sony Pictures Digital, Toyota Motor Sales, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This professional background informs his artistic interest in information systems, interfaces, communication, perception, and the construction of meaning.
Based in the Washington, D.C. region, Alexander is the founder of EnoArts, an artist-led studio and platform for the creation, documentation, presentation, and collection of his work. His practice bridges the traditions of painting, sculpture, allegory, and symbolic image-making with contemporary questions surrounding technology, communication, belief, and human interaction.
Statement
I creates art that transforms perception through contemporary myth-making.
My work begins with a question: How do people come to believe what they believe?
I am interested in the invisible systems that shape human experience. Stories, images, language, technology, religion, politics, advertising, memory, and art history all influence how we understand ourselves and the world. These systems do not simply reflect reality. They help construct it.
I make paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages, and interactive works that examine this process. Rather than illustrating a single idea, I build visual systems where familiar motifs acquire new meanings. Figures, speech bubbles, flowers, stars, platforms, mushrooms, pixelation, stacks, and fragmented narratives appear throughout the work as part of an evolving symbolic language. Their meanings shift depending on context, repetition, material, and relationship to the viewer.
My background in painting, drawing, and sculpture gives the work its physical foundation. My experience in information architecture, user experience, and digital strategy informs the way I think about structure, sequence, interaction, attention, and interpretation. In both painting and interface design, meaning is shaped by how a viewer moves through an experience.
I work in series because each body of work allows me to build a world. Some works emerge through allegory. Others emerge through abstraction, figuration, language, material experimentation, or repeated structures. The works often develop in parallel, with one painting informing another. Over time, symbols return, change, contradict themselves, and gather new associations.
Much of my work is concerned with the instability of perception. I am drawn to moments when certainty breaks down: when a face becomes fragmented, when a flower becomes algorithmic, when a speech bubble becomes a philosophical device, when a platform becomes a belief system, when a surface becomes both image and object.
I do not make work to provide answers. I make work to create spaces where uncertainty can be held long enough to become visible. If the work succeeds, viewers leave with a heightened awareness of how images, stories, symbols, and systems shape what they see, what they remember, and what they believe.