FRIDMAN GALLERY

Alisa Sikelianos-Carter's first solo exhibition with the gallery presents several bodies of work exploring connections among ancestry, power, intuition, and the divine. The artist's mixed-media works on paper are akin to spells commanding the viewer to engage closely with the various textures – hard ground, velvety gouache, glittery mica, and other luminescent materials – mapping the diversity of the color black and of the Black experience.

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Sikelianos-Carter creates devotional objects which embed within them the physical knowledge of ancestral DNA, and the spiritual knowledge passed up and down through generations. Like asteroids arriving to a future pulsating with energy of the world left behind, these are maps of celestial and human bodies that tell stories of survival and transcendence into a new world of unceasing freedom and protection.

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I am the asteroid and the asteroid is me...