"Licity's art is unlike any other out there.
She is daring. She is alive. She is not afraid of pulling you in or pushing you away." —MW Gallery Director
CONCEPTUAL ART
SHE'S EASY
My personal reflection on relationships and a decision to become a spinster. Jewelry box, spool of thread I bought when I was 16, scissors, lace underwear, pins, guitar strings, Spoken word audio with music by Traverse Such and Amanda Huron. Portland Art Museum, Portland OR
Tow
A personal history. Live performance. Video close up of eating multicolored dum-dums, voice over from Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish, orange suitcase. Repeated picking up and dropping of me, followed by reciting a Janis Joplin monologue about love. Inspired by Antonin Artaud. Performed with Micah Perry, Enteractive Language Festival Portland, OR
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Skinned
A collaborative self-portrait. Kitchen cabinet doors and craft blocks painted with house paint. I asked several paint experts at local hardware stores each to create a custom paint to match various parts of my body—left arm, right thigh, face, belly, back, palm and breast. Radio Story produced by Dmae Roberts Aired on Studio 360 (WNYC/Public Radio International) Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.