For Alexis Tricewater is about moving energy and emotion. The native New Yorker (formerly) paints glossy tears flowing from an animal’s eyes or green-hued seas with swirling waves to “release and recycle.” She adds, “I wanted to make work that could be felt without being fully seen.”
Earthy color palettes and shimmering light return in Trice’s works, along with shaggy brown dogs that “provide the ideal channel to bridge the gap of shared emotions between wild animals and humans.” One such creature appears in “Hay Fever,” in which the dog is surrounded by thick grass with broken strings of pearls in its mouth.
Trice regularly returns to these naturally lustrous gemstones to represent the passage of time, and in her latest exhibition Dust and brinemolluscs appear next to the subject as substrates. Twenty scallops contain ethereal scenes in miniature, whether it is a diptych of a blue whale divided in two or three fish spinning in a happy trinity.
Atmospheric and ethereal, this oeuvre ventures further into the surreal. The artist writes of “High Spirits II,” in which a pair of tapered candles are embedded in a pink fish: “Soft, flaky scales and iridescence, achieved through lots of glazing, trial and error. Juicy, wet flesh and flashes of candlelight peering through astigmatist eyes.
If you’re in Philadelphia, stop by Archenemy art to see Trice’s work through October 27. Look differently her website And Instagram.
