Alicia Ponzio

"Alicia N. Ponzio (b.1974) began her career as a Lieutenant in the United States' Navy Nurse Corps. After experimenting with various mediums in figurative art, she found her voice in sculpture and made the decision to pursue it. She completed her artistic training at the Florence Academy of Art (FAA) in Florence, Italy, completing the Sculpture Program in 2008. She was  then the director of the Artistic Anatomy and écorché sculpture programs and a figure drawing instructor  at the FAA until 2011, when she returned to the United States and set up her studio in downtown San Francisco.  

Alicia brings life to her bronzes and plasters, focusing on the abstract movement of forms as embodied in the human figure, as well as the subtle shades of human emotion. Her figure compositions and portraits have received recognition and honors from several organizations including the Art Renewal Center, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, The Portrait Society of America, The California Art Club and The National Sculpture Society from which Alicia received the Alex J. Ettl Grant in 2016.  She is a fellow and board member of the National Sculpture Society, and Signature Member of the Portrait Society of America. In 2018, Alicia  installed a life-size bust of Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero in Nashville's Schermerhorn Symphony Center, in addition to completing a commemorative medallion for the Brookgreen Gardens sculpture collection. She currently works with Figure Ground Gallery in Seattle as well as creating works on commission for private collections. Alicia teaches extensively at her home base in San Francisco and various studios nationally and internationally. She has designed and presented courses at Pixar Studios, The University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, Brookgreen Gardens, The Rome Art Workshops, and more."