alice brickner

My work is usually watercolors.  
In recent years I’ve used several techniques that involve cutting up my paintings and rearranging the elements. I’ve made them as woven pictures or as mosaics or strip collages. My goal is to catch the bounce and movement of light. I haven’t had commercial training. After I graduated from college I worked as a designer in a firm that made silk fabrics. When I had my first child I moved on to free lance illustration. My work came from Art directors who wanted pictures that looked more painterly. I did magazine illustrations, book jackets and pharmaceutical promotion. Between assignments and promoting my work, I was always I was painting.

Native New Yorker
Education:
High School of Music and Art graduate;
Sarah Lawrence College graduate studied with: Kurt Roesch; Ezio Martinelli; Lux Feininger; Theodore Roszak
Pratt Graphic Art Center studied with: Seong Moy; Arnold Singer; Erich Monch; Ansei Uchima

Recent Work in exhibitions:
Chrysalis Gallery, Southampton, NY, August 1998 - 2001
One Woman Show at Donnell library Center, New York City, 1999
One woman show at Howell Center, Beacon, NY, May 1998
School House Gallery, Croton Falls, NY, 1997, 1999, 2000
Gayle Wilson Gallery, Southampton, NY, 1997
Scarborough Gallery, Chappaqua, N.Y. 1993, 1994, 1997
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, N.Y. 1988, 91, 92, 96
River Gallery, Irvington, New York, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Gallimaufry, Croton-on Hudson, NY, 1995
Millenium Gallery, Easthampton, NY, 1995
Bedford Art Show, Historic Hall, Bedford, NY, 1995
The 479 Gallery, NYC, Celebrating Urban Waters, 1994 sponsored by NY Artists Equity
Hammerquist/FACS Gallery, New York,N.Y.1993
Goat Alley Gallery, Sag Harbor, N.Y. 1991
Poulsen Gallery, Pasadena, CA 1988 9

Work showing on the internet at PaintingsDirect.com, January 2000 to present

Earlier Work in exhibitions:
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Ct.
Audubon Artists, NYC
Society of Washington Printmakers, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C
Silvermine National Print Exhibition, New Canaan, CT.
Hudson River Museum Exhibition, Yonkers, N.Y.
New Britain Museum, New Britain, CT.

Collections:
Johnson & Johnson, Surgikos Collection
Pratt Graphic Art Center
Stuttgart University
Private Collections

Professional Organizations:
Artist's Space
New York Artists Equity Association

I've been a life long fan of Paul Klee. I admire his wit, artistry and vitality. His pictures move

watercolor, collage, landscape, sailboats, fish