Alexis Trice (b. 1982) makes paintings that navigate the inner workings of the natural world,
sentimentality and memory. She conveys these scenes with the realism of observed and
documented natural science alongside the conjurings of her own mind. Time permeates layers
through candles burning and waterfalls flowing. Trice’s work is about energy, both emotional
and molecular, and its transference and impact as it ripples outward. Water acts as a source of our
own universal feelings and disturbances: joy, fear, ecstasy, anguish through the tears we keep
hidden.
The salt from the sea and the salt in our bodies; the water in our atmosphere, our cells, our veins;
the endless, crucial circuit of evaporation and condensation. The cycle of a pearl in an oyster, a
mussel, like a hardened memory. Past lives. Open wounds, hauntings, submerged recollections.
This energy releases and ultimately recycles in a continuous, exquisite pattern. Her work aims to
reveal the undercurrent sequestered just beneath the surface.
Trice lives and works in NYC.