Featured Artist: Alice Mizrachi

Born and raised in Queens, Alice Mizrachi’s mixed media artwork reflects her coming of age in the 80’s when hip-hop culture was blossoming as an organic intuitive form of artistic expression across, dance, music, spoken work and the visual arts. This interplay of art forms at the street level is vibrantly alive in Mizrachi’s urban landscape work both literally and figuratively. City life and it’s struggles along with social and political issues are explored through her painting, mixed media and collage work. (Below: Futurama by Alice Mizrachi)

Alice’s strong desire to create work that is accessible to all people has remained in full effect since graduating from Parsons School of Design in 1999. Case in point, the founding of Younity with fellow artist Toofly, an organization dedicated to creating a forum through which women artists can disseminate ideas and showcase work to their contemporaries and the public at large. In particular, Younity embraces personal expression and individual style that pushes the boundaries of the traditional white cube gallery space and takes this message to community and youth empowerment. Younity’s first show “THE CROSSOVER” A Fusion of Female Stylez, Ideaz and Skillz opens Friday, 11/16 at Toy Tokyo’s Showroom Gallery in NYC. The show includes work by Lady Pink, Martha Cooper, Swoon, Toofly, Alice, Laylah Barragan, Diana McClure, and female artists representing Japan, the UK, SF, LA, Puerto Rico, Berlin, South Africa, Texas and Boston. (Below: Alice working on Sophia, mother of all angels at B-Girl Be in Minneapolis, 2007)