Alyssa Moslander Sgro – Artist Biography

 

Alyssa Moslander Sgro is a multidisciplinary artist born in Modesto California and raised in Las Vegas. She has found her home working across painting, found materials and assemblage.

 

Originally trained as a photographer, Moslander became increasingly interested in the ambiguity and physical presence that painting and raw materials could offer. Her work embraces fragmentation, instability, and material memory.  This allows her to create pieces that are less about the documentation of particular experiences, and more about evoking their psychological and emotional weight.

 

At the center of her work is an examination of power, human suffering, identity, and the fragile space between collapse and endurance.

 

She draws inspiration from the cultural landscape of the American West, its spectacle, excess, consumer mythology, and spiritual emptiness.  She reflects on the ways individuals navigate systems that shape, constrain, and define them. Her work considers both the universal aspects of the human condition and the realities of womanhood.  Her work is an exploration of themes of agency, embodiment, connection, and transformation.

 

In examining her work, one can explore themes of power, violence, survival, desire, and the emotional residue each of those leave behind. Through layered, weathered, and salvaged materials, Moslander investigates the complexities of what it means to be both human and a woman in a world shaped by contradiction.

 

Built from equal parts disillusionment and hope, her work searches for moments of meaning and tenderness amid uncertainty. The resulting pieces function as emotional artifacts: raw, unresolved, and deeply human. They hold space for both personal and collective experience.