Alicia Forestall-Boehm
Biography
Alicia Forestall-Boehm lives and works in Chicago. She is the Managing Director and co-founder of Chicago Social Media Marketers, a digital
marketing agency that specializes in working with entrepreneurs, small businesses, and non-profit and arts organizations. She is a professional artist
known for her mixed-media sculptures and installations. Alicia is also the Vice-President of FUSEDChicago, an organization of artists that work with the
encaustic medium. Her artwork is composed of everyday materials including wax, fiber, metal, and found objects. She is drawn to the innate sense of order and change that can define an urban existence. By reducing larger images and concepts into elegant, simplified forms, she explores the physical and mental boundaries of
the public and private spaces we inhabit. An award-winning artist, her work has been included in exhibitions throughout the country, numerous
publications, and public and private collections nationally and internationally.
Artist Statement
Fiber and encaustic paint are my two favored materials, and I integrate them into most of my artwork.
My sculptures are inspired by Chicago’s rich history and celebrated architecture. They are reductions of larger images and ideas, turning the urban existence in to simplified forms that acknowledge another kind of space.
In my newest 2D series Convergence, familiar elements come together in very different ways than they have in the past. The fiber is manipulated to become a printing template that ultimately becomes an element in the final arrangement of each work. The wax and the fiber are transformed both in form and texture, and color and movement resulting in elegant, flowing images.
I would like to thank the website design firm Chicago Social Media Marketers for designing my website.