About Alicia
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Alicia Surveyer is a Canadian artist from Montreal, born in Lachine, Quebec. Although she may be young in age; born in 1981; Alicia is mature in her artistic achievement and has been showing her work professionally for over twenty years. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University, has several other doctorates from Concordia, McGill, and Université de Montreal, in scholarity, and has extensive experience in the many aspects of her field. Such as: teaching art, showing her work, publishing projects, modeling for artists (in costume!), gallery work and representation including exhibits at over a dozen different galleries, as well as extensive travel to art-historical centers. She was also invited to display her art online by the Saatchi Gallery, London, in 2006. As of 2019, Alicia has been guest curating at some of the finest museums in the world. She has developed an innovative and exciting visual style in her painting, drawing and photography. Alicia believes her role as a creative person is a vital one because of an artist’s capability to make statements that express ideas to the public. Her work has been collected or shown by various museums, mostly under a big shroud of secrecy, and her work is also collected in the National Gallery of Canada archives, because they file artist applications in the library. There has also been an issue about paintings they had for 15 years that are unpaid for and supposedly lost. She has also shown in the DDO gallery that exhibits museum quality art. Alicia has sold dozens of pieces to private collectors, over the extensive years of her art career. Her work was also purchased by the ColArt Collection in 2011, but for a fraction of the cost. Basically, her work as a very well self-managed artist, and what her presence offers, got tipped – with some salary cheques under 1000$.
Alicia has been turned down by the Quebec and Canada Council for art grants about a dozen times, and the National Gallery turned down her acquisition proposals several times. Other museums, such as the Musée d’Art Contemporain, and Stewart Hall, turned her down also. The Dollard Center for the Arts, a local cultural gallery, accepted her work only in group shows. Even though Alicia showed her art in many galleries, and in an endless number of shows, (over 100), no one would buy her paintings. And when they did sell, rarely, she had been tricked into thinking they were worth nothing. Alicia got so burnt out from all her hard work in her art career, and facing failure after failure, that she had to put it aside, and had to give up her primary practice for a long time. She needed a break from an exasperated state of working firstly on her art in her life, with nothing coming fully to fruition. When does the money, and the highest success, follow? Now I’ve been creating much more again for several years. I was a champion boxer in the meantime! I have the highest accomplishments in many types of athletics! Now I am also engaged to be married, and also have been a mother in secret for a very long time. Don’t forget, I came from the school of hard knocks, & I work very very hard… for no pay! Don’t forget…. if you can, help support me, my work, & my dreams.
Alicia Surveyer * BFA 2007 Concordia University * MFA-Guild IT (in Drawing) * DEC Fine Arts 1999 & B. S. 1997 John Abbott College * Honorary Doctorates ‘in Scholarity’ * Degree in Piano, Baccélauréat, from the Music Conservatory of Old Montreal * Diocese (Scholar) – Vatican, Roma * VIP Diplomat * Summa cum laude Environmental Sciences & Recon *
See Alicia*s Art also at:
Alicia Surveyer Boxer-Warrioress
Pip’s Page (The Story of Pip, and then the Musings of Athena-Nike)
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Alicia’s “Colors” (purple eye). From L’Anse à l’Orme park, July 2013.
Cancer is my sign, and Cancers are known for having “moon faces”… a broad gentle face, subtle, changeable…like the moon.