The brilliant Adair Park I basketball court mural was conceptualized and led by painter, muralist and SCAD SERVE Alumni Ambassador Alex Waggoner (B.F.A., painting, 2012) with a team of over 100 SCAD artists and community volunteers to bring this whimsical work of art to life and enhance the neighborhood’s popular recreational space. Inspired by the architectural identity of the Adair Park neighborhood and incorporating solar-themed elements, Waggoner’s mural conveys a bright and joyous energy, radiating the unity of one of Atlanta’s most uplifting and eclectic intown historic neighborhoods. SCAD also contributed significant funds to restore the park’s court surface and provide new basketball hoops, fully bringing this basketball court to life.

"Creating this mural with SCAD SERVE for the Adair Park community has been such an incredible experience. The SCAD POP (Paint Our Parks) interdisciplinary initiative has allowed me to utilize skills I have honed while at SCAD and in the professional art world,” said SCAD alumna and artist Alex Waggoner. “I am constantly inspired by the SCAD community, their excitement about volunteering through SCAD SERVE, and their enthusiasm with every stroke of their brushes and rollers! I am excited to see the community play on our colorful and vibrant basketball court for years to come."

Six pieces from the Enormous Tiny Art Show at Nahcotta Gallery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The drive between Atlanta, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina is long and feels even longer. It surpasses my mental limit of a convenient drive being four hours. During my last trek I happened past the Camak Manufacturing Company building in Thomson, Georgia. The beautiful textures and materials were an inspiring respite from the drive. These six paintings are based on this building tucked away in Thomson.

Nahcotta Gallery - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - 2022

Habit Forming is a series of paintings that began to take shape as the jasmine bloomed, the scent making me immediately homesick for Charleston. I became more and more obsessed with the foliage around me. The wild habits formed by the jasmine vine or the man-made ones created by a landscaping crew's hedge trimmer. I notice these natural and highly manicured habits in nature are similar to the habits I try to break and create in my life and studio practice. My daily studio practice is a combination of the natural ebb and flow of the process, something that is hard to force but easy to flow in, and my natural desire for control and structure, the hedge trimmers. These paintings are a visual exploration of musings about scents and sights that transport, and the spectrum of control seen in nature and mirrored in our habit forming.

The Gibbes Museum of Art - Charleston, SC - 2021

An exhibition of paintings pumped full of the nourishing repetition similar to the feeling of rolling through a car wash. Car in neutral on the track, mind numbing drone of the water and the blowdryer, the disco-colored soap on the windshield feel like nourishment. The transformation from bug-splattered and pollen-covered to shiny and clean, mirrors the satisfaction Alex Waggoner feels when painting undulating corrugated metal, high contrast shadows and burglar bars.

Longstreet Gallery - Eastham, MA - 2021

Redux Contemporary Art Center is excited to present ‘Frontyard, Backyard, Street’ a group show featuring the work of Christian Birk, Susan Gregory, Dontré Major, Hirona Matsuda, and Alex Waggoner. Redux’s group exhibitions present the public with an opportunity to better understand, and engage with, the work of a collaborative unit of artists who strive to produce a cohesive, shared statement.⁠⁠

‘Frontyard, Backyard, Street‘, invites the neighborhood to share five artist’s sense of place in their city landscapes. The group uses a variety of media to depict their interpretation of an urban Charleston, celebrating the vibrancy, while, also, considering the inevitable change of our city landscape. As the surrounding street blocks team with energy and layers of stories unfold, the artists consider: What is the character of the city? What history is necessary to protect and tell?

Redux Contemporary Art Center - Charleston, SC - 2020

“BREEZE BLOCKS: peace in pattern” came together through layering the concepts of meditation with repetition, history-steeped architecture, and pattern. Exploring these visual elements in the context of social distancing and a re-engagement of slow living, led me to breeze blocks and their history.

Breeze blocks reached a height of popularity in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. They were an affordable construction system used to partition, shade, and encourage airflow. In the hot, hot summer of the South, when the safest way to see friends is outdoors, we are reminded how architectural design is more than an aesthetic choice.

Miliken Gallery at Converse College - Spartanburg, SC - 2020

"OUTSIDE ICONS FOR INSIDE TIMES" is a series of works on paper created during my time social distancing.  Each piece in the series is based on an outside spot with fond memories, places I look forward to being in again.  The daily ritual of working on these paintings has helped me find a rhythm in the uncertainty and pushed me to continue to grow my daily studio practice.  I hope they bring sunshine and transport you to a place close to your heart.

self released series - 2020

featured alumni artist at Savannah and Atlanta Open Studio 2019

SCAD - Atlanta, GA - 2019