Alacia Stubbs

Plants, from houseplants to trees, have fascinated me since I was a child. I find plant origins so mysterious - how can that little hard seed in the ground know which direction through the dirt leads to the sunlight and the opportunity for growth? Plant anatomy interest me; their branch and leaf structure, blossom shape, the many patterns of tree bark.
Naturally, given my interest in plants, I began painting landscapes. I love the Hudson River school artists and the generation of landscape painters who followed them. but I have always lived in urban areas where there are no magnificent vistas to paint. For a time, I lived in a house with a back yard, and I attempted to portray this mundane bit of greenery with majesty. I worked "en plein aire" in those days, not an easy feat! I was continually battling the elements; wind knocking over my easel; sun, which always seemed to be shining directly in my face; bugs attracted to my sunscreen. I abandoned plein aire painting when I discovered Alley Pond Park.
Alley Pond Park is the second largest park in Queens, NYC, where I live, and the most authentically natural park in Queens, with many miles of nature trails. Day after day of walking these trails and looking carefully at all t...

BFA Parsons School of Design, NYC.
Printmaking studies with Bob Blackburn and Roberto delo Monaco at Blackburn's Printmaking Studio in NYC
Studies in clay hand building at Greenwich House Pottery.

Selected Solo Exhibits:
Exhibit of my paintings at the Huntington Library Gallery, April 2020
Exhibit of my mixed media sculptures at the Huntington Library Gallery June 2019
"Treescapes", May-June 2019 Central Nassau Library Gallery. my landscape paintings
"Winner!", Mills Pond House Gallery, (first prize award for my sculpture, an exhibit of both my paintings and my clay sculpture
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Selected Group Exhibits:
"Womentide" Riverfront Gallery, Yonkers, March 2019
"Queens Mosaics' Plaxall Gallery LIC (showcased Queens artists)
"The New Landscape Painters," Walter Wickiser Gallery, NYC
"29th Annual Juried Fine Art Exhibit," Mills Pond House Gallery, Donald Kuspit awarded my clay sculpture first prize resulting in my solo exhibit at the Gallery.
Recent Exhibits:
LIC-Artists, Fine Art Spring, May 2022