ABOUT

Alisha McCurdy Holzman is an artist currently living and working in New Jersey. She grew up in the rolling hills and coal fields of western Pennsylvania. It was not until moving away from home that she began to understand the Northern Appalachian region’s influence in her life. Primarily embodying sculptural and installation forms, Alisha’s artwork borrows craft-based techniques that are familiar to Appalachia. In this multifarious approach, her work seeks to share common respect for labor and making that are indicative of the humble community she is from.

Recent exhibitions include, New Directions in Fiber Art (2019) Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, Art 31:  Fiber (2018) Art and History Museums of Maitland, Maitland FL, Out of the Seam (2016) Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA, Empire of Dirt (2015) Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ, Resilience (2014) Eastern China Normal University, Shanghai China, Of the Land (2013) She has also shown internationally in Croatia and China.

Alisha completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York.  At Stony Brook, she held the Maurice Goldberger Fellowship and was selected as a 2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant recipient. 

In 2007 she participated in an international exchange program with Akademija Likovnih Umjetnosti U Zagrebu (Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb Croatia). In 2014, Alisha visited East China Normal University with Stony Brook University as a visiting artist and workshop coordinator.

Video courtesy:
Gateway Project Spaces
Credit Media
Luis de Sousa

Music:
Washed Out – Entrance