"Atlanta-based painter Alic Brock has developed a practice that merges digital manipulation with painterly precision. Brock creates compositions that explore spaces between waking and dreaming, recognition and estrangement. Each work begins as a collage of both found and personal imagery that is intentionally altered and translated to canvas using airbrush acrylics. Fragments of Americana, cultural icons, and private memory mingle in peculiar scenarios where narrative and meaning surface only in retrospect."
"Humor and absurdity are central to the atmosphere of When Shadows Forget Their Master. Brock's paintings balance wit with unease and coherence with disruption, like a dream that hovers between sense and nonsense, to quote Carl Jung. Ultimately, these works do not provide a resolution. Instead, they invite viewers into a suspended state where images rebel against their supposed meanings, shadows forget their master, and stories reveal themselves via prolonged observation and the viewer's personal experience."
Alic Brock constructs paintings by digitally collaging found and personal images and translating them to canvas with airbrush acrylics. The compositions probe liminal zones between waking and dreaming, recognition and estrangement, arranging Americana, cultural icons, and private memory into peculiar, retrospective narratives. Psychoanalytic and film-theory concepts such as Lacan's orders, Jung's shadow, and oneiric cinema inform the relational logic of image and memory. Shadows operate as autonomous protagonists, detaching from origins to enact private dramas. Humor and absurdity coexist with unease, and the works resist resolution, inviting prolonged observation and viewer participation to generate meaning.
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