For Alexis Trice, water is about transferring power and emotion. The native New Yorker (beforehand) paints gleaming tears that gush from an animal’s eyes or green-tinged seas with roiling waves to “release and recycle.” She provides, “I wanted to make work that could be felt without fully being seen.”
Earthy shade palettes and glinting mild recur in Trice’s works, together with shaggy brown canines that “represent the ideal conduit to bridge the gap of shared emotion between wild animals and humans.” One such creature seems in “Hay Fever,” which options the canine surrounded by thick grass with damaged strands of pearls in its mouth.
Trice incessantly returns to those naturally lustrous gems to convey the passage of time, and in her newest exhibition Mud & Brine, mollusks seem as substrates along with subject material. Twenty scallop shells maintain ethereal scenes in miniature, whether or not a diptych of a bisected blue whale or three fish swirling in a fortunate trinity.
Atmospheric and ethereal, this physique of labor ventures additional into the surreal. The artist writes about “High Spirits II,” which depicts a pair of taper candles embedded in a pink fish: “Soft flaky scales and iridescence achieved through many glazes, trial, and error. Juicy wet flesh, and flashes of candlelight peering through astigmatism eyes.”
In case you’re in Philadelphia, cease by Arch Enemy Arts to see Trice’s work by means of October 27. In any other case, discover extra on her web site and Instagram.
