Alisa Sikelianos-Carter

Alisa Sikelianos-Carter 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 catalog-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 site of alchemy and divinity.

Alisa Sikelianos-Carter is a mixed-media painter from upstate New York. Awards include residencies at the Fountainhead Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, NXTHVN, Vermont Studio Center, Wassaic Project, and Yaddo. Past and upcoming exhibitions include group shows at James Cohan Gallery, New York; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; and Fridman Gallery, Beacon, New York. The artist earned a BA and MA from SUNY Albany in Painting and Drawing.