Alex White Mazzarella was born in Boston, USA in 1979. He graduated university with degrees in economics and city planning before setting off to Barcelona Spain and consequently Hong Kong China where he worked as an urban planner. Over this period planning, as an analytical approach to city and society was supplemented with a more direct & creative trajectory. Originally inspired by the work of Hundertwasser, Alex’s adolescent talent for drawing and cartons was ignited once again but with a more focused trajectory.
Street art and specifically Kirchner, Basquiat, Pollock, and Tapies were instrumental to his becoming an artist, and his world travels, observations and juxtopositions have always been a constant force, providing the insight to shape his life.
Nurtured by Larry Poons, Phillip Sherrod and Hugo Bastidas of the Art Students League, he has been exhibiting his paintings and artwork in New York since early 2009 after being discovered by Richard Temperio of the Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
His works are in private collections in the United States, France, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Italy and India and in the Museum collection of CoCCA, the Coimbatore Centre for Contemporary Art. He is the founder of the collaborative Artefacting which uses art to engage and catalyze people and places.