Evoking Artemisia Gentileschi by way of David Cronenberg, Queens-based artist Alicia Adamerovich’s (b.1989) paintings, drawings, and sculptural practice invite her audience to visualize their own psychological state. The landscapes – seemingly barren with their darkened color palette and organic surfaces of pumice, gels, wax, and sand – come gracefully alive with radiant orbs and spiraling, structured appendages. These strange biomorphic forms are anthropomorphic and seductive in nature with soft curvatures alternately drawn from the realms of the arboreal, anatomical, and fantastical. As they slouch roughly across their staged compositions, they invoke a sense of familiarity amidst the discomfort of human emotion and contemporary political and cultural narratives surrounding the climate, human rights, consumerism, and journalistic integrity. In this new body of work, ranging from graphite and pastel works on paper to painting and sculpture, Adamerovich continues her investigations of truth, absurdity, and objective reality through enigmatic and intriguing forms. As Adamerovich states: “I don’t wish for my frames to be vessels for the work, but instead to be extensions of the line… making connections with both the viewer’s body and mind. Immersing oneself is bringing the experience closer to my own experience of creation.”
Alicia Adamerovich was born in Latrobe, PA and is currently based in Queens, NY. She received her Bachelor’s of Design from Pennsylvania State University in 2013. Adamerovich has been a recipient of several residencies including the Hayama Artist Residency, Hayama, Japan; Del Vaz Projects Residency, Los Angeles, CA; Moly Sabata Artist Residency, Albert Gleizes Foundation, Sablons, FR; and Palazzo Monti Residency, Brescia, IT. Recent exhibitions include Rude Awakening, Timothy Taylor, New York, NY (2024); This is the time of the hour, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Ultra-gentle manipulation of delicate structures, Projet Pangée, Montréal, QC (2022); Second Nature, Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2021); and A Bat out of Hell, Sans Titre (2016), Paris, FR. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; He Art Museum, Guangdong, China; X Museum, Beijing; and the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas.
