Alisa Sikelianos-Carter: A Spell is a Map to What is Meant for You
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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.
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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Works
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Alisa Sikelianos-CarterAt Work, 2022Acrylic, gouache, and glitter on archival paper
22.5 x 30 in.
57.1 x 76.2 cm. -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterSeeking, 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, and glitter on archival paper
22.5 x 30 in.
57.1 x 76.2 cm. -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterIn the Shape of My Memory #1, 2021Acrylic, gouache, black mica, and glitter on paper
50 x 38.5 in.
127 x 97.8 cm. -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterIn the Shape of My Memory #2, 2021Acrylic, gouache, black mica, and glitter on paper
50 x 38.5 in.
127 x 97.8 cm.
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"I am the asteriod and the asteriod is me..."
– Alisa Sikelianos-Carter
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