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Alicia Lisa Brown is a contemporary Jamaican painter and educator. She is a graduate of Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and the New York Academy of Art. She currently resides in Florida.
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Alicia Lisa Brown is a contemporary Jamaican painter and educator. She is a graduate of Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and the New York Academy of Art. She currently resides in Florida.
Alicia Lisa Brown (recognized as "Alicia Brown") is a Jamaican artist born in 1982. [1] In 2009, she earned her BFA in Painting and a diploma in Art Education from Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. [1] She worked as a secondary teacher for a few years before moving to New York in 2012 and enrolling in the New York Academy of Art's graduate program. She received her MFA in painting in 2014. [1] She worked as a college professor in Jamaica for half a decade [2] before returning to the U.S. and establishing herself as a full time-artist in Florida. [3]
Alicia Lisa Brown has a is figurative, realist art style. Her work features black men and women. These subjects have been historically ignored or misrepresented in the portraiture genre. She often presents figures in relation to a nature environment and/or adorned in nature. Her work tackles themes of belonging, adaptation, migration and diaspora.
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