Alex studied psychology at the University of North Carolina in Asheville and worked at a children’s psychiatric hospital before making the decision to pursue his artistic endeavors full-time. He received an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for American Crafts and went on to teach at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Penland School of Crafts, and The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass.
Alex was the department head of glass at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Massachusetts, but he made the decision to return to his Asheville hometown in 2007 to set up a studio and focus on creating his own work full-time.
Alex actively shows his work throughout the country and abroad, including recent solo shows at Winterowd Fine Art in Santa Fe, Chappell Gallery in NYC; Hooks Epstein Gallery in Houston; Habatat Gallery in Royal Oak, Michigan; and the William Traver Gallery, Seattle. His work is included in numerous collections, including those of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Glasmuseum Frauenau in Germany, the Mellon Financial Corporation, the Mobile Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Palm Springs Art Museum.