Mardi de Veuve Alexis is a California abstract artist born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area. She took classes at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia and in Washington D.C. at the Corcoran School of Art. Upon returning to California, she studied at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) at the School of Architecture and Interior Design. Mardi has been painting professionally for a more than a decade, experimenting with combinations of various media and textural effects, mixing charcoal, ink, pastel, acrylics and collage. Her current body of work is inspired by urbanism and street art.