Fresh Paint - New Space

This is an older photo of my studio. Its amazing to see that most of these paintings have found homes!

The reason I am posting it today is to say goodbye to my cream walls and indigo floor.  Over the next few days I will be repainting the walls a soft white and the floor a coffee brown.  I am looking forward to the fresh paint- new space feel that will be created.  Over the last few years I have realized that although I LOVE my floor this color, it has impacted my paintings by reflecting blue onto their surfaces causing me to over paint in the yellow spectrum. I am hoping that the brown floor will be neutral enough as to not affect my color usage.  I was looking at greys but shied away because of the bluish tints that can happen in them.
I will post some photos soon of the new space but remember if you would like to see it in person I am welcoming studio visits all month long.

My Open Studio this June Located in Scenic Leyden, MA

I have decided that I will be opening my scenic Leyden, MA studio up to the public for the month of June. It will be my first open studio since my accident last year. If you would like a studio visit please email me to arrange a time. I will also be picking a day or weekend to have an official opening where people can just stop in, hang out, have a snack and check out the work.

Also I am considering doing eye portraits again.....here is the link for details and to some of the ones I have done in the past.

http://www.aliciahunsicker.blogspot.com/p/eye-portraits.html

THE COASTER PROJECT, DESTINATION: THE WORLD 2012

Ten years ago TransCultural Exchange's launched one of the largest democratic, global art projects in the world: 'The Coaster Project, Destination: The World.'

Between March 9 and May 19, 2002, 99+ artists transcended geographical, political and cultural boundaries to stage 99+ exhibitions throughout the world. Afterwards, all 10,000+ art works were given away in the guise of "coasters" at bars, cafes and restaurants.

To celebrate, TransCultural Exchange will stage a 10th year anniversary exhibit and give-away of 'The Coaster Project, Destination: The World' at Toronto's '2012 Culture Works Festival

I have been having some fun with this project!  Here are a few examples of some of the coasters I have been making. I hope to do a few sets along with the one I will exhibit with the TCE and which will eventually be given away in Toronto. 

Cosmology : We Are Stardust

Kaboom,
7.5” x 8”, Acrylic on Cradleboard, 2011

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust."

– Lawrence Krauss (cosmologist)

THE COSMIC METABOLISM OF FORM

I have had lots of opportunities come my way of late.  I am being pretty selective and am only committing to those I find really exciting.  One of two that I have committed to is to curate a show dealing with a topic I am now exploring in my work. I will post more details as things progress. The other is a fellowship invitation to do a residency in Austria this fall.  This residency usually includes a show at a local museum as well as day trips to surrounding areas.  One year they took a train to Venice for the day! J   I would really love to do this and have been researching travel grants to pay for airfare and train costs. I am not having much luck though!  I may have to do a Kickstarter or raffle to raise the necessary funds for travel to this residency. It is a wonderful opportunity. 

Painting in Progress, 18"x 24", acrylic on cradleboard, 2012

In the studio I have been thinking a lot about the word Stream in all its meanings and connotations. This is a painting in progress that I am still working on.  I am really enjoying the direction this one is taking me.  I hope to do a few in this possible new series.

Here is a wonderful article I found in Parabola Magazine called
The Cosmic Metabolism of Form

I am loving articles and anything really that bridge science and spirituality the way I aspire to do with my paintings.

Greening the Studio

The studio is rich with life! Painting progress has been slow, but the seedlings are growing fast! A week or two more and they will be ready to be outside full time.  I have been busy watering, repoting, and taking them out of the studio during the day and bringing them in at night. We will have a large variety of veggies to pick this summer;
yellow squash, zucchini, winter squash varieties, peppers, snap peas, green and yellow bush beans, cabbage, lettuce, Swiss chard, beets, carrots, collard greens,cucumbers, onions, garlic, parsley, dill, cilantro, and lots of varieties of tomatoes!

To have room for all this we will be expanding a section of the garden to try a pallet bed where you cover the bottom of a wooden pallet with garden cloth and fill it with dirt, then plant between the slats.  This should work well with shallow rooted plants and helps keep the moisture in and the weeds out.  Looking forward to seeing how it works out. 

Worcester Telegram Article on Worcester Window's & Terri Priest



Tomorrow night at the Worcester Window's reception artist Terri Priest will be giving an artist talk. Here is an article that came out today in the Worcester Telegram. There is a nice mention about my work.

Terri Priest joins other artists for Worcester's community gallery program. By Nancy Sheehan TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF

Dragonfly & Worcester Windows Artist Reception

This is an early figurative painting (oil on Canvas) called Dragonfly. It is currently on display in Worcester. This Thursday is the reception. Information is as follows:

Worcester Windows Spring
Exhibit & Artist Reception

We invite you all to join us Thursday, April 12th for the

opening reception of Taking it to the Streets!

The reception will be held at the Hanover Theatre in Worcester,
MA from 5-7 p.m..
Light refreshments will be served with a cash bar available.
The Hanover Theatre is located at 2 Southbridge St
in downtown Worcester.

Terri Priest, whose work is
currently on display at the Hanover Theatre,

will open the evening with a few words that should be worth the trip alone. While you're there, please visit the other downtown locations to take a look at all the gorgeous artwork as well as the new hanging system.

Taking It To The Streets! ~ Worcester Windows Spring Exhibition

I will be happily showing two early figurative paintings done in a magic realism style along side many other wonderful artists in the Worcester Windows exhibition; Taking It To The Streets!

The show runs April - July, 2012 with a reception on April 12, from 5 to 7 pm.

More details can be found here.

The New York Optimist



I am pleased to announce that my work is being featured this week in

The New York Optimist. A wonderful weekly magazine on art and culture. To see the article and check out all the magazine has to offer click on the link above.

Painting: Earth, Skin, Blood, Water ~ Alicia Hunsicker, 2011

Thought Forms

Three weeks out from my last leg surgery, I am now making leaps and bounds in my recovery process. With the wonderful weather this week in the North East I am going on daily walks up my scenic dirt road. I can’t tell you how good it is to be out doors and moving again. This whole experience has been a lesson in endurance. However I can say it was an experience filled with unexpected gifts as well as a huge change in perspective.

My studio time has been consumed with various writing projects. From grant proposals, residency applications, and interviews, I have had no time to paint! Though I am happy with the results.

If you haven’t yet seen the article that came out in SuperConsciousness Magazine, Please check it out. It will give you an insight into the new direction I am going in. http://www.superconsciousness.com/topics/art/supernatural-creator

A friend and collector of my work came by to wish me well and decided to add Thought Forms to her private collection. She wrote to me afterward saying " I LOVE my new painting! It sits in a space where I see it all the time, and I consciously look at it all the time. It's like after a while I will have memorized all my favorite parts. It has made my living room a truly visually interesting place to be."

So while I was physically down and in isolation for the last
8 months or so….My work has gotten some high visibility with the show at Gallery in the Woods and the unbelievable press the new work has
generated. It’s strange how life gets balanced out. I am in gratitude and am reminded of my wonderful belief that Anything is Possible!

SuperConsciousness Magazine Interview

I recently teamed up with SuperConsciousness Magazine to do an interview/article about my paintings and creative process.

SuperNatural Creator

by Paulina Amador became available on-line yesterday.

SuperConsciousness is a wonderful Magazine that explores Science, Spirituality, and Human Potential.

The article starts: An artist can be a scientist when it comes down to building the blocks of a new reality through a canvas, where colors and textures act as the bond of subatomic particles. Life is a gigantic piece of fabric, where we display our thoughts and create, moment by moment. To read more click on the link above.

The Past, Future, and Particle Colliders

I have had the fortunate experience recently to view my work through new eyes. This fresh perspective is through the eyes of Science. I have always thought of my work as Spiritual but as my awareness and interest unfolded I realized that
science is interested and asking the same questions I am exploring in my own artistic investigations.

I have found the natural unfolding of my work to be
at times eerie in the way my past interests connect with my future interests.

Here is one recent example…….a few years ago I went to China
to work with the Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai
to present a project called “ Eye to Eye”.

When I arrived home I became even more obsessed with eye imagery and did some really beautiful eye portraits. Right now I am really passionate about doing a collaboration with a scientist and eventually visiting either the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (Switzerland) or the Fermilab collider detector here in the USA.

Particle collider detectors are the eyes scientists use to visualize the smallest building blocks of nature. It is quite amazing!

Here are photos of the particle colliders at both CERN and Fermilab side by side with my eye paintings..........

Why Science Needs Art

Creation and Destruction,
24”x 29”, Oil on Board, 2011

Why Science Needs Artby Jonah Lehrer
The more we know about reality, the more palpable its paradoxes become. The author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist and editor of SEED magazine, believes that artistic interpretations of scientific ideas and theories offer science a new lens through which to see itself while also furthering our inquiry into the nature of consciousness.

Read more of the article here.

One of my favorite paragraphs.....
But the trajectory of science has proven to be a little more complicated. The more we know about reality—about its quantum mechanics and neural origins—the more palpable its paradoxes become. As Vladimir Nabokov, the novelist and lepidopterist, once put it, "The greater one’s science, the deeper the sense of mystery."

Noosphere and The Global Consciousness Project

Science hones answers into our origins…..
What we have been taught is being challenged by new discoveries!
To get up to date check out Scientific American’s publication
“A new look at Human Evolution”
These developments excite me!!!!

Scientists have also discovered a field of intelligent energy that surrounds us all and connects us and what we think and feel have an effect on this field.
This field appears to be a web that makes up the fabric of space.
This field is everywhere all the time. It’s the stuff that is in the nothing.
Scientists are calling it by many names…Quantum Hologram, the mind of nature, noosphere, or even the mind of God.....only to name a few.

Princeton University is now studying that field in a project from the
The Institute of Noetic Sciences which is directed by Roger Nelson called “The Global Consciousness Project” It askes the question “What is the nature of Global Consciousness?”
This project developed technology that detects and responds to this field and measures changes in mass consciousness.
The devices known as EGGS were planted all over the globe
And have been monitored for the last 12 years.
This field fluctuated before global events like 9/11 or in a more positive scope during times of mass prayer.
You can see this mapping and data collection in real time on their website.

The projects starts “Coherent consciousness creates order in the world.
Subtle interactions link us with each other and the Earth.When human consciousness becomes coherent and synchronized, the behavior of random systems may change. Quantum event based random number generators (RNGs) produce completely unpredictable sequences of zeroes and ones. But when a great event synchronizes the feelings of millions of people, our network of RNGs becomes subtly structured. The probability is less than one in a billion that the effect is due to chance. The evidence suggests an emerging noosphere, or the unifying field of consciousness described by sages in all cultures.
The Global Consciousness Project is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists and engineers. We collect data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in 70 host sites around the world. The data are transmitted to a central archive which now contains more than 12 years of random data in parallel sequences of synchronized 200-bit trials every second. "

To read more go here.

The image above is a painting in progress.