Portfolio
Recent Works By Alicia Quinn
Unicorn Thief
A commissioned piece for The Wine and Spirit Company of Greenville Delaware. This Four Roses Kentucky Strait Bourbon Whisky was a private selection that Alicia digitally created.
Early Birds Choice
A commissioned piece for The Wine and Spirit Company of Greenville Delaware. This Four Roses Kentucky Strait Bourbon Whisky was a private selection that Alicia digitally designed and hand assembled in wax.
Parsons School of Design Portfolio
https://portfolio.newschool.edu/aliciaquinn/
Surface
A collaborated piece acted by Chanel Burns. This film was edited by Alicia Quinn, Andrea Mato, and Chanel Burns. This film was recorded by Alicia Quinn and Andrea Mato.
In this film I hope to connect your private moments to public moments and what those moments mean out of context. To juxtapose private and public actions. What would this video mean if the actress were doing these things in a bathroom and not in Washington Square Park? What does this video say about surface and information that has become public? About making something private now publicly displayed?
This absent sounded video is purposeful to replace your thoughts with what is going on in your mind when you are alone in your bathroom or bedroom caring for yourself in private.
Send to Hello
Alicia Quinn is a design student at Parsons School of Design in NYC. She is a contemporary artist that works with many mediums and covers identification topics. She was born and raised in Pennsylvania and became an artist in 2015. She works with hand on projects that she paints and hand makes.
Her topics consist of behavioral aspects and self-identity. She first experimented with identification and the way past trauma has an effect of identity. She then moved to the behavioral aspects that people identify with. How addiction can affect behavior and how a new addiction replaces childhood addictions. For her topics she had to produce many researches and discoveries such as experiments with addictions. She finished her research with identification in communication. How humans behave online through digital communication. How communication online effects human interaction face to face.
Alicia’s hands on approach of creating projects relates to her topic because it represents that humans are not digital. They are indeed beings that create with hands and mind. Her project consisting of research in digital media and communication was presented in a handmade form to contradict the fact humans are becoming “digital” but are still human not robot.
Research wise, Alicia has discovered many facts on digital communication in form of emoji’s and icons. How icons and emoji’s are forming a new language. A language that is taking human gestures and facial expressions and exaggerating them to a point that they are not human-like anymore. Alicia also learned that this form of communicating is not replacing face to face human interaction and humans are becoming unable to communicate face to face. She would like to explore this even more to know what else this tactic is affecting in human identity. In terms of materials Alicia would like to explore digital forms of art to have the basics of all materials covered, although she would still continue with hands on making
