Alicia Adamerovich

Alicia Adamerovich (b. 1989, Latrobe, Pennsylvania) is an abstract painter and sculptor who lives and works in Queens, New York. Adamerovich paints shadow-filled scenes whose undulating shapes are informed by Surrealism as well as by the symbolist compositions of Hilma af Klint. Her paintings respond to the natural world and that of science fiction; they are populated by twisting biomorphic forms that cast ink-black shadows or radiate with bright white internal light. Adamerovich first makes studies with pastel on paper before translating these compositions to canvas. She builds texture onto her stretched canvas supports with multiple layers of pumice, gels, sand, and paint to achieve uncanny effects of surface, depth, and atmosphere.

These paintings are complimented by organic sculptures the artist creates from branches salvaged from the woods surrounding her parents’ rural Pennsylvania home, which she sometimes incorporates directly into her painted works. Other sculptures are self-standing and appear to shiver and writhe, as if the branches themselves had become invested with otherworldly powers. Adamerovich studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Pennsylvania State University before moving to New York. Her Queens studio includes a small woodshop and is where she constructs her sculptures piece by piece, using an aggregative and intuitive process.