Alice Garik

visual artist

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    • Fauna
      • Eyes for Butterflies 1A collage of a woman, enlarged eyes and a butterfly wing. The purpose is to show an engagement with butterflies.
      • Wing Curve 1Monarch Butterfly wing. Monarchs need to be protected to survive.
      • Kneel for Butterflies and FlowersEco-feminist collage of a woman kneeling within the embrace of butterfly wings and floral designs
      • 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.
      • 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
      • Daphne's Oak SeedAn oak seedling sprouts roots. With climate warming oaks may suffer. can suffer
      • 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.
      • 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.
      • Firepalladium print - abstract image based on tattoo of tree by Alice Garik
    • Sea
      • 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.
      • 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.
      • 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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    • Fauna
      • Eyes for Butterflies 1A collage of a woman, enlarged eyes and a butterfly wing. The purpose is to show an engagement with butterflies.
      • Wing Curve 1Monarch Butterfly wing. Monarchs need to be protected to survive.
      • Kneel for Butterflies and FlowersEco-feminist collage of a woman kneeling within the embrace of butterfly wings and floral designs
      • 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.
      • 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
      • Daphne's Oak SeedAn oak seedling sprouts roots. With climate warming oaks may suffer. can suffer
      • 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.
      • 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.
      • Firepalladium print - abstract image based on tattoo of tree by Alice Garik
    • Sea
      • 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.
      • 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.
      • 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.
  • About The Work
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  • Splitting
  • Palladium on Japanese gampi with pearlescent water color.
  • 2020
  • 21.5 X 36 inches

Diptych of a man with his multiple tattoos on the front and back of his torso. His tattoos relate to plants and animals. By using a red triangle, I am pointing out his connections to real plants, here Iris flowers in the first print’s collage of images. Palladium on Japanese gampi with pearlescent water color.

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ALICE GARIK, VISUAL ARTIST
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