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Alicia LaChance


Alicia LaChance was born in 1970 and is a self-taught painter who lives and works in St Louis Missouri.

LaChance makes large scale, process driven paintings built up through layers of acrylic, casein, latex and spray paint on a fresco-secco ground over canvas. Her mark-making involves traditional brushwork, sign maker's techniques, silk screen, taping, powdered pigment stains, scraping and sanding. LaChance's work conveys a layering and compression of multicultural traditions and art historical references, from ancient folk traditions to street art. Her highly worked paintings often use open source graphs as a compositional map and armature to hang intellectual ideas from as they relate to pushing boundaries in abstraction and process. Recently, her painting, New Village I, was reinterpreted as a 27' terrazzo floor public art installation at St. Louis International Airport. This work was also highlighted in the Wall Street Journal.

It has often been noted that LaChance's paintings feel like a form of folk art born from street culture, at once both timeless and contemporary. In the same way that skaters carve shapes from city streets Alicia fuses skateboard forms and street art sampling with a strong design and painterly sensibility. It's this mixing of experience, sensibility and technique that make these paintings so layered and powerful.

Says LaChance about her paintings: "I am always looking for the mysteries. I'm interested in the gaps. I always like to equate this process to jazz. You may be playing a series of notes, but it's the hang time, or the absence of a note, that makes you wonder. I always set out to create something that evokes that sensation and draws the viewer closer. It starts there and then it's an exploration to find what comes next."


Travel Guide I, 60x40, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Travel Guide II, 60x40, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Street Guide I, 24x24, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Street Guide II, 24x24, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Confluence I, 27x39, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Confluence II, 27x39, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Homecoming, 36x36, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Street Guide 1, 36x48, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Walking City, 29x48, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



My Neighbor, 29x48, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Street Guide, 29x48, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Open Source - Meditation, 29x48, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel
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Open Source - Meditation, 29x48, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Love All, 61x50, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Eclipse Chaser - Meditation, 61x50, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel



Four Corners - Meditation, 61x50, fresco, acrylic, oil, spray paint and casein on panel






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