Alisa Sikelianos-Carter

New York

June 2-30, 2021

Time for You Residency
Sponsored by the Sustainable Arts Foundation and collectors David Horvitz and Francie Bishop Good

BIO

Alisa Sikelianos-Carter is a mixed media painter from upstate New York. Sikelianos-Carter is a 2020 recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation grant and a 2020 Studio Fellow at NXTHVN in New Haven, CT. She has been awarded past residencies at The Millay Colony for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Wassaic Project, and Yaddo. Her recent exhibitions include group shows at The Tang Teaching Museum, Bronx Art Space, and Pelham Art Center. She earned her BA and MA from SUNY Albany in Painting and Drawing.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work asserts that Black features are a manifestation of a sacred and divine technology that has served as a means of survival, both physically and metaphysically. I envision a cosmically bountiful world that celebrates and pays homage to ancestral majesty, power, and aesthetics. Through my exploration of opulent, luminous materials, I am creating a mythology that is centered on Black resistance and utilizes the body as a sight of alchemy and divinity.

ARTIST LINKS

Website: www.alisasikelianoscarter.com

Instagram: @alisasikelianoscarter