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MFA STUDENT GALLERY

Alicia Beach - MFA 2009
Email: abeach@utk.edu
Education: Memphis College of Art

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My work discusses issues surrounding artifice and nature. I am interested in creating conversations between the artificial and the natural. My created environments are anti-landscape scenarios that evoke an aesthetic pleasure for the artificial. I am combining the artificial with the natural to create my perfected version of nature. To me, a perfect and ideal landscape is one without maintenance. It is created once and is then free from laborious tasks, it is happy to look at, and is comfortable for me to be in. My landscapes are human made pleasures that exist as my safe haven in an indoor environment.

BIO:
Alicia Beach received her BFA from Memphis College of Art in 2004. She then interned and worked as studio manager under sculptor and installation artist Adrienne Outlaw. She is now a third year graduate student at The University of Tennessee where she is a Graduate Teaching Associate and is expected to receive her MFA in 2010. Alicia has had several group and solo exhibitions. After graduation she will be participating in The Seed Project, a series of solo exhibitions of emerging artists, in Nashville, TN.