Alice Garik

visual artist

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    • Fauna
      • Serpent's ButterflyA butterfly's wing embraces the tattooed back of a woman.
      • Wing Curve 1Monarch Butterfly wing. Monarchs need to be protected to survive.
      • Snakes
      • Holding Her NestA woman's hands intermix with a bird's nest, which she appears to hold next to her heart.
      • Spider Emerges
      • IcarusA man attempts to stop is fall. Wings are attached to his tattooed arm.
      • Nesting a SerpentA tattooed serpent rests on a nest of twigs.
      • Winged CrowA woman with a crow tattoo on her thigh next to a bird's wing.
      • Bird and SnakeA shed snake skin divides this tattoed man's back. His back has a bird and snake.
      • Mantis Phoenix Risingpalladium print - abstract image of a tattooed woman's body with preying mantis by Alice Garik
    • Flora
      • Sawn OakReading recently of the effect of climate warming on the trees in the NE United States is alarming. Drought, mold and insect infestations are affecting trees in North Eastern forests. Trees are dying and will be cut down altering these forests forever. We will be impacted by their loss.
      • Iris SparksAn Iris. The beauty, fragility and vigor.
      • Into the EarthA man has his hand in moss in this graphically black and white print.
      • Splitting
      • NestingBird's Nest
      • Tiger Paws SoftlyA tiger's paw from a photographed tattoo is just barely visible in the petal of an Iris flower.
      • Peony and OrchidA woman with a peony tattooed on her back is framed by an orchid.
      • Shadow PlayParts of an Iris flower showing the beard and stamen shadowed by the Iris petals.
      • Her Serpent PeonyIn the shape of a Peony leaf, a woman's tattoo of a serpent appears.
      • Iris with Bird Snakepalladium print - abstract image of a bird tattoo with a snake and iris flower by Alice Garik
      • Spider's Journey 2This diptych of a spider moving among parts of an Iris flower.
    • Sea
      • AphroditeScallops can have as many as 400 eyes circling around their shells. This is a palladium print of a camera-free capture of these eyes.
      • Coral Honeycomb 1Coral is in danger of extinction due to ocean warming and climate change.
      • Merging 1Many varieties of coral. Coral is in danger of extinction due to climate warming.
      • Striped Bass 2Fin fragment of a Striped Bass.
      • Striped BassFin fragment of a Striped Bass. One of the fish that are caught in the waters off the NY coastline.
      • His Shoulder & FinsDiptych of fish fins and a man's shoulder with a tattoo.
      • Storm Brewing 2A diptych of a shell symbolizing a storm cloud placed on top of a man's tattooed back with storm winds and a large eye tattooed on him.
      • WavesPalladium print formed by the brushstrokes in a wave pattern and printed using negatives of seaweed.
      • Wave StrengthensA wave with a tattoo of a wave shaped like a cresting wave.
      • Boat Rides WaveA boat form rides a wave. The boat form is a negative printed in palladium of a tattooed man's torso.
      • Daphne and Sea 2Based on the Greek myth, this diptych of Daphne is changing into a laurel tree.
      • Rising WaveA wave shape, like the letter C, in this abstract work.
      • Wave CrestingThe shape of a cresting wave done with negatives of seaweed and a tattoo negative.
      • Double Shellpalladium print - shell imagery based on scallop shells found in Maine by Alice Garik
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    • Fauna
      • Serpent's ButterflyA butterfly's wing embraces the tattooed back of a woman.
      • Wing Curve 1Monarch Butterfly wing. Monarchs need to be protected to survive.
      • Snakes
      • Holding Her NestA woman's hands intermix with a bird's nest, which she appears to hold next to her heart.
      • Spider Emerges
      • IcarusA man attempts to stop is fall. Wings are attached to his tattooed arm.
      • Nesting a SerpentA tattooed serpent rests on a nest of twigs.
      • Winged CrowA woman with a crow tattoo on her thigh next to a bird's wing.
      • Bird and SnakeA shed snake skin divides this tattoed man's back. His back has a bird and snake.
      • Mantis Phoenix Risingpalladium print - abstract image of a tattooed woman's body with preying mantis by Alice Garik
    • Flora
      • Sawn OakReading recently of the effect of climate warming on the trees in the NE United States is alarming. Drought, mold and insect infestations are affecting trees in North Eastern forests. Trees are dying and will be cut down altering these forests forever. We will be impacted by their loss.
      • Iris SparksAn Iris. The beauty, fragility and vigor.
      • Into the EarthA man has his hand in moss in this graphically black and white print.
      • Splitting
      • NestingBird's Nest
      • Tiger Paws SoftlyA tiger's paw from a photographed tattoo is just barely visible in the petal of an Iris flower.
      • Peony and OrchidA woman with a peony tattooed on her back is framed by an orchid.
      • Shadow PlayParts of an Iris flower showing the beard and stamen shadowed by the Iris petals.
      • Her Serpent PeonyIn the shape of a Peony leaf, a woman's tattoo of a serpent appears.
      • Iris with Bird Snakepalladium print - abstract image of a bird tattoo with a snake and iris flower by Alice Garik
      • Spider's Journey 2This diptych of a spider moving among parts of an Iris flower.
    • Sea
      • AphroditeScallops can have as many as 400 eyes circling around their shells. This is a palladium print of a camera-free capture of these eyes.
      • Coral Honeycomb 1Coral is in danger of extinction due to ocean warming and climate change.
      • Merging 1Many varieties of coral. Coral is in danger of extinction due to climate warming.
      • Striped Bass 2Fin fragment of a Striped Bass.
      • Striped BassFin fragment of a Striped Bass. One of the fish that are caught in the waters off the NY coastline.
      • His Shoulder & FinsDiptych of fish fins and a man's shoulder with a tattoo.
      • Storm Brewing 2A diptych of a shell symbolizing a storm cloud placed on top of a man's tattooed back with storm winds and a large eye tattooed on him.
      • WavesPalladium print formed by the brushstrokes in a wave pattern and printed using negatives of seaweed.
      • Wave StrengthensA wave with a tattoo of a wave shaped like a cresting wave.
      • Boat Rides WaveA boat form rides a wave. The boat form is a negative printed in palladium of a tattooed man's torso.
      • Daphne and Sea 2Based on the Greek myth, this diptych of Daphne is changing into a laurel tree.
      • Rising WaveA wave shape, like the letter C, in this abstract work.
      • Wave CrestingThe shape of a cresting wave done with negatives of seaweed and a tattoo negative.
      • Double Shellpalladium print - shell imagery based on scallop shells found in Maine by Alice Garik
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Technical Notes

palladium print - abstract image by Alice Garik

My work is a combination of experimental photographic techniques and hand-applied color.  To make the photographic base image, I collage negatives of photographed tattoos with negatives of flora and fauna.  For the tattoos, I photograph people’s tattoos with a 4X5″ camera and enlarge the negatives onto larger film in the darkroom.  The negatives I use for my imagery of flora and fauna are camera-free.  In the darkroom, I project a small object — a flower or a piece of seaweed, for example — onto negative film with my enlarger.  I try to allow the shapes to take form in an organic process of discovery, working with various degrees of focus in the final image.

I then combine multiple negatives of tattoos with negatives of flora and fauna.  Next, I paint palladium emulsion on handmade translucent Japanese gampi paper.  Once the emulsion has dried, I place the negatives on it and top with glass and expose the image outdoors in the sun.  It can take mere minutes in the summer or even hours in the winter for the image to form.

Depending on my ideas for each work, I may expose the work again with other negatives or paint it with water colors.  Each unique work is process driven.  At each stage I decide how the work is communicating.

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An Iris. The beauty, fragility and vigor.
Naturartis
A man has his hand in moss in this graphically black and white print.
Gowanus Open Studios 2019
Smoke and a gold haze surround this woman's tattoo of a Phoenix. Dragonflies and a bird escape the fire.
Pray for Amazonia
A shed snake skin with a woman who has a serpent tattoo on her back.
Surrealism = Meaning
A fox is next to a man with a tree tattooed on his torso.
Wily as a Fox
Several figures of birds from tattoos and shadows of real birds are printed with palladium with red and gold water color added.
Feathers
Palladium work of a woman's hands with tattoos. Above her hands is a photograph of a bird in flight.
Tattooed New-York
A tattooed spider seeming to crawl into an Iris flower. The spider is from a photograph.
Spiders Then and Now
palladium print - abstract image by Alice Garik
Technical Notes

ALICE GARIK, VISUAL ARTIST
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