Photo Credit – Kyle Flubacke

Ep.110 features Alisa Sikelianos-Carter. She earned her BA and MA in Painting and Drawing from SUNY Albany. She is a recent NXTHVN Fellow, a 2022 Headlands Artist in Residence, and in 2021 was awarded the inaugural fellowship at Foreland, a six-month studio residency in the Catskills conferred biennially on an outstanding artist of color. Recent exhibitions of her work include Realms of Refuge, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL; Un/Common Proximity, James Cohan, New York, NY; In the Eye of Belonging, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY; and Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. Sikelianos-Carter was featured in New American Paintings, No. 146, Northeast Issue, and received the Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant. She has been awarded residencies at the Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL and Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.

Artist https://www.alisasikelianoscarter.com/

Kavi Gupta Gallery https://kavigupta.com/exhibitions/368-alisa-sikelianos-carter-stars-are-born-in-darkness-kavi-gupta-elizabeth-st-fl.-2/

https://kavigupta.com/exhibitions/368/works/artworks-10261-alisa-sikelianos-carter-a-godx-of-sky-and-mud-2022/

NXTHVN https://www.nxthvn.com/residents/alisa-sikelianos-carter/

Smithsonian https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-alisa-sikelianoscarter-22020

Curated By Girls https://www.curatedbygirls.com/alisa-sikelianos-carter/

Kristin Hjellegjerde https://kristinhjellegjerde.com/artists/256-alisa-sikelianos-carter/overview/

Mandeville Gallery https://muse.union.edu/mandeville/project/alisa-sikelianos-carter/

Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/kavi-gupta-alisa-sikelianos-carter/

Ocula https://ocula.com/art-galleries/kavi-gupta-gallery/artworks/alisa-sikelianos-carter/to-hide-in-the-light/

https://ocula.com/art-galleries/kavi-gupta-gallery/artworks/alisa-sikelianos-carter/to-be-held/

Chicago Gallery News  https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/in-conversation-artists-devan-shimoyama-and-alisa-sikelianos-carter-and-curator-rikki-byrd

Sugarcane Magazine https://sugarcanemag.com/2022/05/survival-where-the-sea-meets-the-sky-alisa-sikelianos-carters-stars-are-born-in-darkness-by-julia-mallory/

Hands of Fortuna (Sea Asteroid of Fate), 2022
Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, and glitter on archival paper (detail)
-Alon Koppel Photography

Africosmos of Sun and Sea #1, 2022
Unique archival print hand embellished with glitter. (detail)
-Courtesy of the Artist

There’s a Wave in Every Cell, 2022
Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, and glitter on archival paper (detail)
– Alon Koppel Photography

Wild Delight, 2022
Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, glass, glitter, micaceous iron oxide, and abalone shell on archival paper. (detail)
-Alon Koppel Photography