Born in La Plata, Argentina, Alicia Creus began her artisitic career as a poet, pursuing a secondary activity, sculpture. In 1977 she left Argentina, which was governed by a military dictatorship, and moved to New York City, where she began to devote more attention to sculpture and less to writing. Her desire to explore color inspired Creus to study painting at the New York Studio School in Greenwhich Village. Focusing on this medium she created large, abstract paintings with reference to organic shapes, such as seeds, pods and fruits. However, Creus' art changed radically in the early 1990s, when she began working on large textile collages, or fabric paintings that she has continued to produce until the present. Creus' fabric paintings are comprised of colorful fabrics, lace, ribbons and yarns, as well as silk flowers, often over brilliantly painted canvas. She rapidly developed a cohesive pictorial language through which the resulting works possess not only visual power, but great cultural resonance as well. Her works are in numerous public and private collections. She has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1983.
Extracted from Fatima Bercht, The Veiled Mirrors Recent Works by Alicia Creus, exhibition catalogue, El Museo del Barrio, New York, 1997.
Today, along with her fabric paintings, Alicia began to explore movement and creating animations. Her subjects deal with feminist issues, such as making free adaptations of Charlotte Perkins Gillman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", the story of Arachne from The Metamorphosis by Ovid, and others. At the moment she is working on the animation of "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl", a fabric painting she created in 1996.
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