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Alisa Sikelianos-Carter is a mixed-media painter from upstate New York. Her 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. She envisions a cosmically bountiful world that celebrates and pays homage to ancestral majesty, power, and aesthetics.
Inspired by traditionally Black hairstyles, Sikelianos-Carter uses web and catalogue-sourced images to construct new archetypes. Through her exploration of opulent, luminescent materials she is creating a mythology that is centered on Black resistance and utilizes the body as a sight of alchemy and divinity.
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Alisa Sikelianos Carter, Stars Are Born in Darkness, Virtual Walkthrough
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“I want to live in a world in which every micro-aggression, attack on humanity, and doubt of divinity aimed at Black people is destroyed by future-sent deities,”
- Alisa Sikelianos-Carter
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“These Godx are completely enveloped and adorned by magnificent cornrows, dreadlocks, and twists. The hairstyles act as armor and weapon, protecting and repelling wearers from white supremacy and misogyny. These are the beings I create. My wildest dreams realized; a marriage between the spectral beings we (as Black people) can and will transform into as a result of the culture we currently live in with the majesty, magic, and tradition of our ancestors.”
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Alisa Sikelianos-CarterHands of Fortuna (Sea Asteroid of Fate), 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, and glitter on archival paper
62 5/8 x 60 5/8 in
159.1 x 154 cm -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterI am Made of Sky and Mud, 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, and glitter on linen with velvet
44 1/2 x 101 in
113 x 256.5 cm -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterMeet Me on the Other Side, 2021Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, and glitter on linen with velvet
44 1/2 x 103 in
113 x 261.6 cm
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Alisa Sikelianos-CarterTo Be Held, 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, and glitter on linen with velvet
44 x 101 in
111.8 x 256.5 cm -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterA Godx of Song and Sand, 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, and glitter on linen with velvet
44 1/2 x 101 in
113 x 256.5 cm -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterThe Greater the People the Wider the Cascade, 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, and glitter on archival paper
26 5/8 x 77 3/8 x 1 in
67.6 x 196.5 x 2.5 cm
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Alisa Sikelianos-CarterMind of My Mind, 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, and glitter on archival paper
26 5/8 x 77 3/8 x 1 in
67.6 x 196.5 x 2.5 cm -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterThere's a Wave in Every Cell, 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, and glitter on archival paper
47 5/8 x 77 1/8 x 1 in
121 x 195.9 x 2.5 cm -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterAfricosmos of Moon and Sea #1, 2022Unique archival print hand embellished with glitter
50 7/8 x 86 3/4 in
129.2 x 220.3 cm
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Alisa Sikelianos-CarterAfricosmos of Sun and Sea #1, 2022Unique archival print hand embellished with glitter
50 7/8 x 86 3/4 in
129.2 x 220.3 cm -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterA Blessing, 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, glass, glitter, micaceous iron oxide, and abalone shell on archival paper
47 5/8 x 35 3/8 x 2 in
121 x 89.9 x 5.1 cm -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterWild Delight, 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, glass, glitter, micaceous iron oxide, and abalone shell on archival paper
35 3/8 x 47 5/8 x 2 in
89.9 x 115.9 x 5.1 cm
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Alisa Sikelianos-CarterThe Sound of Absolute Freedom, 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, glass, glitter, micaceous iron oxide, and abalone shell on archival paper
47 5/8 x 35 3/8 x 1 1/2 in
121 x 89.9 x 3.8 cm -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterA Choreography of Choices, 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, glass, glitter, micaceous iron oxide, and abalone shell on archival paper
65 3/8 x 47 5/8 in
166.1 x 121 cm -
Alisa Sikelianos-CarterAn Order of Light, 2022Acrylic, gouache, pearl mica, black mica, glass, glitter, micaceous iron oxide, and abalone shell on archival paper
65 3/8 x 47 5/8 in
166.1 x 121 cm
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Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Stars are Born in Darkness: Kavi Gupta, 219 W. Elizabeth St.
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