Alexis Marino is an artist and a published illustrator working in her native city, New York. Having a perpetual fascination with the sights and sounds of her home, she finds inspiration in often overlooked vignettes, spending many years drawing en plein air and obsessively filling sketchbooks.

To develop her most recent body of work, Alexis used anatomy books as well as her own plein air reference to draw complex, humanistic forms in a distilled stage of metamorphosis and transfiguration. Her preferred mediums are BIC pens and ink on printmaking paper.

In October 2025, she had her first solo exhibition, entitled "Out of the Dark" featuring large scale ink on paper artworks exploring themes of darkness and emergence. Through her work, she hopes to allow the viewer to reflect on subjects often too painful to confront on a day-to-day basis such as self-destruction, rage, body horror, obsession, alienation, death and ecstasy. Through her work, she hopes to redefine the expectation of ‘feminine art’ and facilitate a connection to our primal selves.

In between sessions at the easel, she makes time for long bike rides and continues her en plein air practice with local artists.