Alice Garik

Artist Statement / Bio

Alice Garik is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work have been collected by The Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, and the Polaroid Collection. Her new work depicts species depletion from climate change. She melds enlarged camera-free negative of partial exoskeletons of flowers, seaweed, insects, and snakeskin, collages or layers them on photos of bodies, often tattooed ones. Our tattooed bodies serve as archives of the flora and fauna that are disappearing. Garik prints these collages with palladium on handmade Japanese gampi paper. The translucency of gampi, made from a wild plant, highlights fragility. Garik has exhibited at The New York, Historical Society, with EcoArtSpace, and at other galleries. Her work has been supported by residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the School of Visual Arts.

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