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Artist's Statement:  My
painting is a journey, an exploration into new realities, like layered
veils being lifted piece by piece, revealing glimpses of the inner
realms and beyond. My ideas materialize in the layers of each painting
intuitively. I allow the process to influence the outcome. As I’m
painting, images appear as though channeled through the psyche and the
collective consciousness.I strive to create a visual language that evokes deep feelings of the divine feminine/masculine and the spirit of the natural world while at the same time creating a dreamlike quality that captures the viewer in a mystical place. My goal is to discover new possibilities at every curve and turn, infusing the painting with diverse meanings and manifesting visions into the world of the seen and unseen. “The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings” PLATO
About The Artist:
Hunsicker is touched with the allure of the feminine mystique. Her trio of paintings reveal a painterly transcendence. I  n the colored pencil piece ”Emergence”, we are
first drawn to her resplendent set of butterfly wings that give rise to
a classical torso tapering into a swirl of curvilinear enmeshment
suggestive of a shell of the sea. The entire figure floats upon a
thin transparency of sky like a Goddess of Olympian splendor.Next our interest is captivated by a wedge if an animated blue grotto of stone in which materializes a visionary evocation of spirit - an illuminated apparition shrouded in a flowing gown. Celestial light streams from a nether of heavenly blue in the oil painting entitled “Guardian Spirit. The third “Goddess of Laussell” an oil presented by Hunsicker, is a bronzed umber envelopment derived in some way from the imagery of Paleolithic caves in France called Lascaux. This is and exploration of source perhaps, deeply recessed inseminated source, embryonic, yet bearing a host of provocative imagery. There carefully articulated images and symbols are hidden within the dark folds of the suggestive anatomical forms that tremble in waves of invagination. This work deserves studied attention. The Recorder, July 8, 2004 “Art Scene” By Greg Morell ...............................................................
Alicia organized and participated
in a show at Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, MA as a part of the
hospitals “Healing Environment Project” Greg Morell, art reviewer for
“The Recorder” wrote of her work in his article reviewing the 267 show:“  Margaret
Byrne, a housekeeper for FMC Environmental Service remembers well
the first time she encountered Alicia Hunsicker’s “Guardian Spirit” as
she was rolling her maintenance wagon down the hall of the newly
installed Gallery 267 exhibit, on her normal daily rounds, she was
struck by the mystical blue of Hunsicker’s tableau. It reminded
her of the paintings of Mother Mary on the walls of her Nova Scotia
church that she last saw 44 years ago. As she was at the
beginning of her shift, Byrne spent a few long moments engaged by
Hunsicker’s image of a blue spirit hovering above a grotto of
stone. “I was waiting for her face to appear (Mary Immaculate), I
could picture her features coming out of the glow” Byrne said of
the piece.The Recorder, November 18, 2004 “Art Scene” By Greg Morell ...............................................................
Hunsicker is deeply enmeshed
in the mystery of fertility and motherhood. Her vivid,
provocative paintings are visceral projections of mystical wonder. She
continues to present evocative ideas in lush visual compositions that
richly celebrate feminine fecundity. Her prolific outpouring of luxuriant work is and inspiration to the vibrant fellowship of artists that make up the 267 artist cooperative. The Recorder, January 20, 2005 “Art Scene” By Greg Morell |
| All images ©Alicia Hunsicker |
Alicia
Hunsicker graduated in 1993 from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst with a Bachelors degree in fine arts. She has worked in many
arts related fields including teaching art to children and adults,
photography, graphic design, and sign making.
Alicia
has been awarded a several grants from the Massachusetts Cultural
Council for her creative projects. In November of 2005 she was
the featured artist in the Arts and Entertainment section of The
Recorder a regional news paper. Her art was chosen to
appear in Franklin Medical Centers 2006 “Healing Environments”
fundraising calendar and has shown her art work regularly throughout
Massachusetts and Vermont.