Alejandra Almuelle is a Peruvian-American ceramic sculptor and a studio potter based in Austin. For over 30 years she has dedicated to both, sculptural and functional ceramics. Her work has been featured in institutions such as the San Angelo Museum of Art, Elizabeth Nay Museum, Mexic-Arte Museum, Red Lodge Clay Center Gallery, Utilitarian Clay VIII, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Companion Gallery, Wayne Center for the Arts , Ohio, Women and Their Work, Gallery, Co-Lab Projects, Cloud Tree Gallery, Rock-port Center for the Arts, Hunt Gallery in Webster University, Big Medium Gallery, Long Center for Performing Arts, Centro Cultural Aztlan, Dimension gallery among others. She has been the recipient of multiple grants from the city of Austin. She is currently working on a large wall installation for Art in Public Places for the city of Austin.

The focus of my work is the human form. The body not only carries our genetic memory, but it is the biological archive of experience. We are historically shaped and conditioned by the environment and by the same socioeconomic structures we have participated in creating. The human body is both witness and event, as well as the field where these two aspects are at play. My work points to this juncture. Through the human form in its different iterations, I shift attention beyond form to what is implicit: the event, the experience that has taken place. I hand build using slabs of clay. This technique allows sculpting simultaneously from inside and outside the form. This process reflects the interplay between the body and the world. A world that expresses itself in our biology, and a body that leaves its imprint on the world it inhabits. The slab of clay becomes the metaphorical ground where that interaction takes shape.
Clay, loaded with intelligence, has history. It is malleable but it pushes back. Open to be shaped, it asks for the same, having a bearing on the outcome of the work. While clay remains my primary medium, I have incorporated other materials, such as beeswax, resins, plexiglass, metal, thread, paper, graphite, salt and corn, to expand my artistic vocabulary and further explore the complexities beyond the human form.