
Spotlight Artist
Alice Raymond
Pacific Coast
Artist Statement
In my artwork, I take a pluralistic approach to the relationship
between people and space. I was born in Paris and traveled
extensively through Europe as a child before moving to the United
States as an adult. As a result of my travels, I became interested
in maps and how to represent my daily adaptation to other
cultures. When I arrived in the U.S., I created a codified language,
turning a word into a specific shape. My abstract and geometric
shapes define new territories, like intimate maps connecting
form, aesthetics, and semantics.
The works I call Language Paintings are made with locally
donated house paint on unstretched canvas. The codified words
are signs in a kind of native language. The paintings sometimes
become volumes, and they design physical areas. The final visual
result evokes the vocabulary of an abstract landscape, but more
than that, my linguistic works frame the intricacies and diversity
of perceptions and map new personal territories.
Artist's Additional works
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