Alice Garik

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      • Serpents and RainIn many cultures, snakes are associated with regeneration, fertility, and needed rain, particularly in dry regions of the globe.
      • Can We Breathe?This work of a woman's legs supporting a newborn baby surrounded by blossoming oak leaves in palladium painted with red and green pearlescent watercolor is about our interdependence with trees. We breathe oxygen which trees release during photosynthesis and release carbon dioxide which the trees take in for their own nourishment.
      • Wing Curve 1Monarch Butterfly wing. Monarchs need to be protected to survive.
      • Dragonfly Wing InstallationAn installation of dragonfly wing palladium prints: from micro to macro, our world can expand.
      • Butterfly DiptychOur eyes are looking out for the survival of Monarch butterflies.
      • Kneel for Butterflies and FlowersEco-feminist collage of a woman kneeling within the embrace of butterfly wings and floral designs
      • Fox Meeting
      • Mantis Phoenix Risingpalladium print - abstract image of a tattooed woman's body with preying mantis by Alice Garik
      • Holding Her NestA woman's hands intermix with a bird's nest, which she appears to hold next to her heart.
      • Spider Emerges
      • Bird and SnakeA shed snake skin divides this tattoed man's back. His back has a bird and snake.
      • Nesting a SerpentA tattooed serpent rests on a nest of twigs. The twigs symbolize the microbial ecosystem we live in and that our bodies extend beyond our skin.
      • Spider's Journey 2This diptych of a spider moving among parts of an Iris flower.
    • Flora
      • One Is Hand and OrchidAn installation of a hand balancing an oversized orchid.
      • Blossoming OakOak trees blossom in the Spring.
      • Iris CurveI aim to translate the energy of living things--here an Iris flower. I paint the palladium solution as I follow the forms of the Iris.
      • Wings for IrisFollowing the forms of the Iris flower, I paint the palladium emulsion to show the flower's energy.
      • Cross MidwayThe vibrancy of the Iris moves my brush as I paint the palladium emulsion on the gampi paper.
      • Iris Installation LayoutSeparate palladium prints of The Iris Installation laid out to view.
      • Iris InstallationThis set of four palladium prints on Japanese gampi paper uses negatives I have created of Iris flowers with figurative works of a woman surrounded by flowers. The flowers and the woman's body are abstracted to show the similarities in the forms. We and natural objects can exist in harmony.
      • Among the PeoniesAbstract diptych of a woman among peony flowers with the second palladium print of an abstract peony.
      • Lichen Diptych
      • Iris SparksAn Iris. The beauty, fragility and vigor.
      • Into the EarthA man has his hand in moss in this graphically black and white print.
      • Firepalladium print - abstract image based on tattoo of tree by Alice Garik
      • NestingBird's Nest
      • Shadow PlayParts of an Iris flower showing the beard and stamen shadowed by the Iris petals.
      • Iris with Bird Snakepalladium print - abstract image of a bird tattoo with a snake and iris flower by Alice Garik
      • Daphne's Oak SeedAn oak seedling sprouts roots. With climate warming oaks may suffer. can suffer
    • Sea
      • Blown to the SeaAn installation series depicting wind and the ocean through tattoos and seaweed.
      • Eye Shell SeaweedThe palladium prints here are part of a larger installation. The subject is a man's tattooed back with a large eye in the center with figures blowing storm winds tattooed on his shoulders. I have surrounded the tattoo of his back with seaweed negatives.
      • His Boat on Crashing WaveA diptych of a man's torso in the shape of a boat rides a crashing wave. After Hokusai, The Great Wave.
      • Aphrodite DiptychWe are one with the water and the ocean. All life originated in the ocean.
      • 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.
      • Daphne and Sea 2Based on the Greek myth, this diptych of Daphne is changing into a laurel tree.
      • 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"
      • 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.
      • Rising WaveA wave shape, like the letter C, in this abstract work.
      • His Shoulder & FinsDiptych of fish fins and a man's shoulder with a tattoo.
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    • Fauna
      • Serpents and RainIn many cultures, snakes are associated with regeneration, fertility, and needed rain, particularly in dry regions of the globe.
      • Can We Breathe?This work of a woman's legs supporting a newborn baby surrounded by blossoming oak leaves in palladium painted with red and green pearlescent watercolor is about our interdependence with trees. We breathe oxygen which trees release during photosynthesis and release carbon dioxide which the trees take in for their own nourishment.
      • Wing Curve 1Monarch Butterfly wing. Monarchs need to be protected to survive.
      • Dragonfly Wing InstallationAn installation of dragonfly wing palladium prints: from micro to macro, our world can expand.
      • Butterfly DiptychOur eyes are looking out for the survival of Monarch butterflies.
      • Kneel for Butterflies and FlowersEco-feminist collage of a woman kneeling within the embrace of butterfly wings and floral designs
      • Fox Meeting
      • Mantis Phoenix Risingpalladium print - abstract image of a tattooed woman's body with preying mantis by Alice Garik
      • Holding Her NestA woman's hands intermix with a bird's nest, which she appears to hold next to her heart.
      • Spider Emerges
      • Bird and SnakeA shed snake skin divides this tattoed man's back. His back has a bird and snake.
      • Nesting a SerpentA tattooed serpent rests on a nest of twigs. The twigs symbolize the microbial ecosystem we live in and that our bodies extend beyond our skin.
      • Spider's Journey 2This diptych of a spider moving among parts of an Iris flower.
    • Flora
      • One Is Hand and OrchidAn installation of a hand balancing an oversized orchid.
      • Blossoming OakOak trees blossom in the Spring.
      • Iris CurveI aim to translate the energy of living things--here an Iris flower. I paint the palladium solution as I follow the forms of the Iris.
      • Wings for IrisFollowing the forms of the Iris flower, I paint the palladium emulsion to show the flower's energy.
      • Cross MidwayThe vibrancy of the Iris moves my brush as I paint the palladium emulsion on the gampi paper.
      • Iris Installation LayoutSeparate palladium prints of The Iris Installation laid out to view.
      • Iris InstallationThis set of four palladium prints on Japanese gampi paper uses negatives I have created of Iris flowers with figurative works of a woman surrounded by flowers. The flowers and the woman's body are abstracted to show the similarities in the forms. We and natural objects can exist in harmony.
      • Among the PeoniesAbstract diptych of a woman among peony flowers with the second palladium print of an abstract peony.
      • Lichen Diptych
      • Iris SparksAn Iris. The beauty, fragility and vigor.
      • Into the EarthA man has his hand in moss in this graphically black and white print.
      • Firepalladium print - abstract image based on tattoo of tree by Alice Garik
      • NestingBird's Nest
      • Shadow PlayParts of an Iris flower showing the beard and stamen shadowed by the Iris petals.
      • Iris with Bird Snakepalladium print - abstract image of a bird tattoo with a snake and iris flower by Alice Garik
      • Daphne's Oak SeedAn oak seedling sprouts roots. With climate warming oaks may suffer. can suffer
    • Sea
      • Blown to the SeaAn installation series depicting wind and the ocean through tattoos and seaweed.
      • Eye Shell SeaweedThe palladium prints here are part of a larger installation. The subject is a man's tattooed back with a large eye in the center with figures blowing storm winds tattooed on his shoulders. I have surrounded the tattoo of his back with seaweed negatives.
      • His Boat on Crashing WaveA diptych of a man's torso in the shape of a boat rides a crashing wave. After Hokusai, The Great Wave.
      • Aphrodite DiptychWe are one with the water and the ocean. All life originated in the ocean.
      • 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.
      • Daphne and Sea 2Based on the Greek myth, this diptych of Daphne is changing into a laurel tree.
      • 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"
      • 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.
      • Rising WaveA wave shape, like the letter C, in this abstract work.
      • His Shoulder & FinsDiptych of fish fins and a man's shoulder with a tattoo.
  • About The Work
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This work of a woman's legs supporting a newborn baby surrounded by blossoming oak leaves in palladium painted with red and green pearlescent watercolor is about our interdependence with trees. We breathe oxygen which trees release during photosynthesis and release carbon dioxide which the trees take in for their own nourishment.
  • Can We Breathe?
  • Palladium on Japanese gampi paper with watercolor
  • 2020
  • 32 X24 inches

Chimera or Breath: Is her hand grazing her belly or the green spring Oak leaves?
Her baby already emerged.
Her legs sprout Oak blossoms.
Red is our blood pulsing with oxygen.
An interchange, a melding, a melody.

For this work I thought about the layers necessary to convey our interdependence with trees and that our very breath/life depends on them. In all I did five printings. I used one negative for her legs, one negative for the baby, two negatives aligned in printing for the Oak tree blossoms, and one negative for her hand. I painted the oak blossoms with green and red Kremer pearlescent watercolor.

This work was exhibited as part of the Gowanus Open Studios in the fall of 2021.

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