lives and works in New York. She studies at New York Academy of Art. Alicia Brown about her work: "My work is a visual performance, depicting a sub- culture in Jamaica. I am examining the phenomenon of hair dressing as a ritual, where women on the streets of Downtown Kingston Jamaica openly display what most persons would consider a private act. They transform their façade by adorning themselves with hair extensions, wigs and piercings as a form of fashion statements. I am interested in issues such as colonialism, cross culture, mass media, dancehall culture and their influence in constructing Jamaican/Caribbean identity.  I am approaching the idea of hair adornment as a mode of constructing identity, through a series of self-portraits."