Alicia Lasby was born in Cleveland Ohio and moved to Austin Texas in her teen years. She received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, earning both the John Guerin Award and the Isabelle Herstien Scholarship. After visiting Florence, Rome, Venice, and the Nederlands, she created assemblage and mixed media art while serving as studio manager for the Artist's Coalition of Austin. She now works at the Thornton Rd Artist's Co-op, Studio J.
Artist's Statement:
I am very process oriented. The textures, shapes and colors are immediate in my mind; I will choose one element of significance; a scrap from a letter, a photograph, or an object. I recall dreams, memories or images and incorporate symbols to represent them. Quite often the symbols change meaning as I work, and a new narrative presents itself to me. I love the surprise and exploration of new ideas, storylines, and visuals to point me in another direction and see something I've never noticed bofore.
Fever, Flame and Flood, 1998 - present
Image:
Without Significant Impairment, 2011 - present
Without Significant Impairment is an installation in progress. It's become a compulsion of collecting and rearranging the printed word as a representation of thwarted communication. Words are torn and recombined to cover surfaces. They are encased in wax and sewn shut or displayed for curiosity. Cohesive thoughts are broken down to one word answers, partial words, single letters, and finally abstractions of color.
