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
      • BloodGreek myths say that the blood from Medusa's severed head became the brightly colored corals.
      • 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.
      • Portrait and SandThis tattoo portrait is paired with sand to illustrate this quote from Graham Harman: "Instead of placing souls into sand and stones, we find something sandy and stony in the human soul." From the book "The Quadruple Object"
      • Bones over Sand
      • 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 BassFin fragment of a Striped Bass. One of the fish that are caught in the waters off the NY coastline.
      • 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.
      • 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.
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  • WORK
    • 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
      • BloodGreek myths say that the blood from Medusa's severed head became the brightly colored corals.
      • 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.
      • Portrait and SandThis tattoo portrait is paired with sand to illustrate this quote from Graham Harman: "Instead of placing souls into sand and stones, we find something sandy and stony in the human soul." From the book "The Quadruple Object"
      • Bones over Sand
      • 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 BassFin fragment of a Striped Bass. One of the fish that are caught in the waters off the NY coastline.
      • 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.
      • 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.
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A PDF of Totemic Objects from the Ocean

200-400 eyes of the sea scallop.

Please click on the sentence below to view this PDF:

Through processes of transformation I present these palladium prints of objects from the ocean.

I have placed a few works from my current ocean portfolio in the above linked PDF. These works have grown from my sense of sanctuary in long walks at the ocean’s edge during this time of Covid lockdown.

Feeling wave upon wave wash over the sand moved me into the cyclic and expansive motion of the ocean. To express the ocean’s vastness and materiality, I pick up remnants of sea life washed onto the sand.

Placing these fragments of sea life directly into my enlarger, I make camera-free large 16 X 20 inch negatives to contact print using brushed palladium metal on translucent Japanese gampi paper and expose the negatives and paper using the direct rays of the sun.

When I place these fragments in my enlarger, the depth of field is similar to a lens that is wide open on a large format camera. Some details are sharply focused while others are softly embraced.

Using palladium allows for tonal distinctions of extreme subtlety. Sometimes when I paint the palladium on the paper, I paint only the shape of the object and leave the rest of the paper open. This I have done with the corals. Centering the corals allows for the concentration of their forms.

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One of my works framed and ready to be mounted on a wall.
Selling My Work
The portraits of the snake and the woman represent our unity with all animate beings.
I Was a Snake
200-400 eyes of the sea scallop.
A PDF of Totemic Objects from the Ocean
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
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ALICE GARIK, VISUAL ARTIST
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