About Alicia

Art has always found its way back to me.

I made my first oil painting at nine years old in Mexico, with a private art teacher my parents hired. Shortly after, we moved to the United States, and like so many things from that life, art took a backseat.

I held art closely to me through school, taking every art class I could find, and eventually earned a Vice Presidential Scholarship in Graphic Design at Utah Valley Community College. I was drawn to graphic design because it merged art with technology, two things I loved.

But practicality has a way of winning, at least for a while. I stepped away, built a life, and kept finding my way back to art in whatever form I could. Along the way I even learned to tattoo. If it involved art, I was drawn to it.

Eventually I came back fully. Watercolor first, then acrylics, then back to where it all began: oils. Of everything that has shifted and changed, the canvas has been the one constant. I could paint every day and never get enough. Based in Riverton, Utah, I now paint full time.

My work explores what it means to exist between worlds — as a Mexican-born woman raised in Utah, as someone who has always been ni de aquí ni de allá, not fully from here, not fully from there. The paintings are about quiet strength. About being underestimated and misread. About the fire that stays lit no matter what gets set aside.

Found on the canvas.