About

Alexa Burrell is an artist and musician based in San Francisco. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses video, installation, animation, photography, sculpture, and music, all aimed at constructing atmospheric systems that shape perception and focus attention. Through her frame-based media, she treats the image as a means of temporal expression, utilizing sequencing, looping, and projection to create environments that unfold over time and engage the body as a sensory instrument.

Burrell's work incorporates spatial sound, water, and custom-built instruments, navigating the spaces between the emotional and somatic, the natural and technological, and the scientific and spiritual. She emphasizes Black feminist philosophy, eco-consciousness, and ambient aesthetics in her creations.

Under the name LEXAGON, Burrell produces music that functions as afro-surrealist sonic collages, layering vocals, clarinet, field recordings, and self-built instruments. Her compositions draw from jazz vocal traditions and melancholic love songs, creating femme ballads shaped by ritualized improvisation and intricate rhythmic systems inspired by environmental and architectural sound. Her work is rooted in a continuous exploration of how sound and image influence memory, attention, and cognition.

From 2016 to 2022, Burrell was a documentarian, designer, and performer with House/Full of Blackwomen, a ritual performance collective led by amara tabor-smith and Ellen Sebastian-Chang. She has created sound and visual installations for Bay Area theaters such as Audium Theater of Sound, Stanford University, Dance Mission Theater, ODC, and Joe Goode Performance Group, and has exhibited her artwork at Kala Art Institute, The Luggage Store Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), SOMarts and Gray Area.

Burrell was awarded the 2025 Barbara Hammer Lesbian Filmmaking award, the 2018 Soundwave Festival “Buzz Award” for innovation in music, the 2018 Alternative Exposure Grant, and was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Visual Design. She has participated in artist residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Audium Theater of Sound, Kala Art Institute, Montalvo Arts Center, and Paul Dresher Studios.