Josie Licavoli is a painter and art educator from the Bay Area. In her practice, she explores the symbiotic relationship between femininity, corporeality, and the natural world. Her work is rooted in her Filipino ancestry and in the embodied experience of growing up along the California coast—places where water, plant life, and shifting terrain become mirrors for the emotional and physical life of the self.

Through sensuous environments, Josie considers the female body as both mythic and material: soft, resilient, and deeply attuned to nature. Influenced by feminist thought and the long history of women as allegory in the art canon, her work reimagines the feminine body not as symbol but as an active, knowing presence.

Rooted in myth, ecology, and lived experience, her paintings form a meditation on balance, vulnerability, and the profound ways we mirror the environments we inhabit. Like trees, her figures hold memory and adaptation, revealing an inner landscape where stillness and strength coexist. Our bodies hold time, memory, and myth; they bend, regenerate, and root us to the ever-changing landscapes we inhabit.