Alisa Sikelianos-Carter Artist Spotlight

Continuing the celebration of NXTHVN's five year anniversary, alumna Alisa's Sikelianos-Carter's inclusion in a new group exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum prompted us to look back at her time during the Cohort 02 Fellowship - 2020-2021.
Sikelianos-Carter is a mixed media visual artist living and working in upstate New York. Her body of work asserts that Black features are a manifestation of a sacred and divine technology that have served as a means of survival, both physically and metaphysically. She envisions a cosmically luminous world that celebrates and pays homage to ancestral majesty, power, and aesthetics. Inspired by traditionally Black hairstyles, Sikelianos-Carter uses web- and catalogue- sourced images to construct new archetypes. With her opulent, large-scale paintings she is creating a mythology that is centered on Black resistance and utilizes the body as a sight of alchemy and divinity.
Sikelianos-Carter's work is currently featured in a group exhibition titled "I'm a thousand different people--Every one is real" now through January, 2025. More details about the show at:
leslielohman.org/exhibitions/...
Learn more at www.alisasikelianoscarter.com
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