Bio
Josie Licavoli is an artist and art educator originally from the Bay Area. She works as a multimedia artist, but her work is primarily rooted in painting. In her work, she aims to highlight the importance of community, decolonize the brown body and recognize the emotional nuance in everyday interactions.
Josie Licavoli is a mixed race American multimedia artist with an emphasis on oil painting from a small town called Millbrae outside of San Francisco. By living in a space between a big city and the suburbs as a biracial child, a keen awareness of liminality formed in her youth and lingers today. Her aesthetic awareness is a constant cultivation of the things she finds beauty and emotion in such as books, movies and music. A true observer, Josie developed an acute appreciation for the nuanced emotions of those around her and is constantly inspired by the physical interaction of bodies and the building and breaking of relationships. Reflection on personal traumas and honoring the artists and ancestors that came before her guide her through her art process. Her work is an examination of emotions that are a result of those contemplations, represented by the brown female body coalescing with nature and cities. In her practice, she blends personal identity and collective knowledge to create pieces that are both private and public- a liminal space between the two.
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