Stacey Alickman

gouache on paper

email: salickman@rcn.com
phone: 617.776.6807

 

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statement

I use gouache on paper to explore the possibilities of new spatial compositions, color harmonies and elaborate doodles. I work unscripted, allowing myself to be inspired by tingling sensations and funny thoughts rather than by rational ideas of what to paint. I begin work by laying down some color as a wash or form. Pieces of a story appear and as these images become too candid, I must sublimate them until formal aspects of composition, color, form and line fall into place. This process is a repetitive digression until the work is humbly revealed.

Drawing plays a role as a means to developing my thoughts but I am more interested in stuff that gets stacked or goes around in circles, visual rhymes and repetitions, tight spaces and spaciousness, patterns and decorations, and any improbable arrangement of these things.

education

1992-94 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Certificate Program, Boston, Massachusetts
1990-92 Massachusetts College of Art , Graphic Design Certificate Program, Boston, Massachusetts
1986 Brandeis University (cum laude), Bachelor of Arts, Waltham, Massachusetts
1984-85 Somerville College/Oxford University, Junior Year Abroad, Oxford, England

grants

2006 Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, The Artist’s Resource Trust Fund (A.R.T.)
2004 Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grants Program
2001 Somerville Arts Council Grant
1999 Somerville Arts Council Grant

group exhibitions

2007 Visual AIDS: Postcards From the Edge Benefit, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Everything But Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2006 Visual AIDS: Postcards From the Edge Benefit, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2006 Everything But Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2005 Transformations, The Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, Massachusetts
2005 Works on Paper, The Tank, New York, NY
2005 Tufts University 2nd Annual Juried Summer Exhibition, Aidekman Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts
2005 Painting Now: Selections from the 2004 MCC Artist Grant Awards, ArtSpace, Maynard, Massachusetts
2001 An Exhibit of 20 Recent SAC Grant Winners, Somerville Museum, Somerville, Massachusetts
1999 Select 1999 Somerville Arts Council Grant Winners, Gallerybershad, Somerville, Massachusetts

Ongoing:

2007 Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2005 Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

two-person exhibitions

1999 Color and Light: Abstract Works in Oil, Space 12 Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

public and corporate collections

Meditech Corporation, Westwood, MA

publications

Boston Globe (July, 2005) “At Tufts, Rewards in Improbable Experiments.” Cate McQuaid.
Bay Windows (January, 1999) “One of Us,” Rudy Kikel.
Somerville Journal (July, 1999) “Somerville Gets Eclectic,” Gary Duehr.