b 1993 St. Louis, MO. 📍 Philadelphia , PA + Passport Ready

Alexis Nunnelly is a modern-day myth maker and multidisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia.

Her paintings reimagine the female nude through the lens of art history, sensuality, and spiritual embodiment—transforming the body into an archetype of power and reverence.

Her work and teachings fuse spirituality, sensuality, and storytelling, guiding women to express themselves with creative confidence and sovereignty.

Through her world, The Artist Type, she transforms the creative process into a ritual of self-recognition—helping women awaken their inner muse and bring their truth to life as art.

Her paintings and teachings exist as parallel portals—one visual, one spiritual—both devoted to the same pursuit: helping women awaken their inner muse and bring their truth to life as art.

✨

My work slices through the masks we wear — the ones stitched by culture, desire, & survival. Through painting, collage, and performance, I unravel and reconstruct identity, exploring the collisions between flesh, image, power, and gaze.

Pulling from the personal, fashion, mythology, and disposable culture, I fracture faces and bodies until something raw and essential emerges: a fluid self, constantly becoming. My figures seduce and defy, unravel and reassert. They exist in the charged space between being seen and seizing the right to see.

The erotic, to me, is a portal: a site of power, resistance, and transformation. I explore femininity not as an inevitability, but as an invention — a stage where muse and author battle for sovereignty.

Materially, my process is visceral — a dance of layering, scraping, reclaiming. Scale is a strategy: the work insists on being witnessed. It demands space. It makes the viewer choose between submission and confrontation.

My canvases breathe them. Through a blend of vivid colors, intricate symbolism, and ethereal strokes, my intention is to seduce viewers to embark on an introspective journey, connecting with their innermost emotions and aspirations.

At its core, my practice is portraiture; self and other…..about authorship — over body, image, myth, and self.

Not just visibility.

Dominion.

All of life is a creative act.

I am voracious for knowledge and actively work everyday to transmute that to wisdom.

I will always make work with hopes to inspire others to live bold and true.

Welcome to my world.

XO

A






CV