Alice Hope is a multidisciplinary artist who works in New York City and LongIsland. Named New York’s “Woman to Watch” in 2018 by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Hope is widely recognized for the public and privately commissioned installations that are central to her practice. At the core of Hope’sapproach in developing new bodies of work is her choice in materials with embedded cultural references and relevance. Over the past decade the can tab has been the most salient element, but she also works with price tags, blue tape,magnets, and fish netting. Hope’s interest in seine netting, was prompted by a 2019 site visit to Maputo, Mozambique for an Art in Embassies commission. Inspired by the rhythmic wading seine fishermen and their heaped discarded nets in eye shot from the U.S.Embassy, she embarked on Murmuration 1, an undulating seventeen foot wallsculpture, a massive accumulation of directionally knotted Corona tabs into monofilament seine netting. In 2021, the commission was permanently installedin the Embassy; in 2022, Murmuration 2- aggregations of Coke can tabs knottedinto a multifilament seine net - spilled from its wall expanse to a pelt like formon the floor in The Church in Sag Harbor, New York. The seine net has taken ona buoyant ethereal role in recent shows- in 2022 with Guild Hall and in 2023 Drawing Room gallery ; the installations engaged the nets' negative space and shifting shadows as essential as the form. Alice Hope holds an MFA from Yale University. She has exhibited widely at galleries in New York and on Eastern Long Island, and has created site-responsive works under the auspices of several public institutions. Among her many site-specific installation projects, Under the Radar was presented by the Parrish Art Museum in 2012 at Camp Hero State Park in Montauk. Subsequent projects in New York City include installations at WNYC Greene Space (2013), the QueensMuseum (2015) and the Armory Show art fair (2013). In 2014-2015 she was artist in residence at New York’s Museum of Art and Design. In 2018 her work was the subject of a one-person exhibition at Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, and in 2022 the museum presented her site specific installations in an off site exhibit att he historic Amagansett Life Saving Station. She recently completed two public commissions - in Washington DC and Brooklyn- made with blue tape.