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Artworks
Josie Licavoli
Daughter of the Moon, 2025Watercolor, colored pencil, and collage on paper
24” x 24”A stylized painting of a woman in a red top and brown skirt holding her knees to her chest as she sits in a grassy field. A full moon glows above her, with white fish swimming across a dark blue sky. Two black crows and white lamp-like shapes flank the scene.Biography Josie Licavoli is a painter and art educator from the Bay Area. Her work explores diverse cultural identities, drawing from her mixed-race heritage. Inspired by San Francisco, the California...Biography
Josie Licavoli is a painter and art educator from the Bay Area. Her work explores diverse cultural identities, drawing from her mixed-race heritage. Inspired by San Francisco, the California coast, music and literature, her work delves into human experiences, merging personal introspection with collective experience. Josie's art invites viewers to intimately engage with the rich fusion of Filipino and American culture, as well as glimpses of city life and moments in nature. Her work is a dialogue between the land, the body, and honoring those who came before us whose stories are lost within the systematic erasure of oppressed people. She use representations the brown body as a vessel of strength, beauty and deep cultural significance.
