office had a chance to catch up with Alicia to discuss her show and learn more about how she brings these phantasmagorical images to life.
I had to take a second look at a few works in This is the time of the hour to tell that they were paintings and not actual landscapes I could enter. What materials do you work with to create this effect?
Haha wow, thanks. It's starting to become a fairly long process. The texture is a combo of adding some mediums to the priming (gesso) layers as well as building up a lot of layers of oil paint. I don’t want to give away every detail of what I use, but I definitely repaint each entire painting a minimum of three times. Sometimes they end up with five or six layers. Each round I increase, or decrease, the depth and contrast of colors. Bringing it closer and closer to whatever feeling I’m trying to get at.