ALICE GOULD

The newest body of oil paintings, Free Range, is a group of paintings made outdoors while camping on solo painting excursions, and in-studio in San Francisco over the 2018 Summer and Fall/Winter of 2019. They are sometimes spare, revealing distinct painterly expressions. The color choices are primary to their moods and essences; the choices made along the way spring from the initial ground colors, themselves inspired by gently tweaked primary colors. I also experimented with raw linen for three of the works, one sealed with rabbit-skin glue (natural materials only), and the other two with a clear acrylic glaze (emblematic of contemporary resources).

Intrinsic Portal is an inward journey, also touching other worlds -- nature's and the inner ears' and eyes'. These, plus Linear Alive are manifestations of an urge to depict a quality of line or painterly dynamism in simple gouache works on paper. The images pay homage to natural phenomena and tap into a personal, abstract vocabulary of shape, line, color, and meaning.

The photographs are black and white 35mm analog photographs taken in remote wilderness areas. I use a 35mm camera for physical reasons, because I get to turn the dial of the aperture, and listen to the shutter click. I take photographs to depict the articulate beauty of wild nature. The simplicity of the recorded image is a foil for inventive painting (where I freely express my intuited joy, or present a distilled homage). With photographs I can later see what inspired me, what juxtaposition of light and shadow, and tree-limb, struck me so speechless.

The Drawings are the language of unspoken truth, in black and white.

Bare Passage is a selection of works 'based on beige', the rub of comically neutral Caucasian flesh against the greater universe.

Once accumulated, I look at all the works and begin to form associative and physical relationships between them. I may create borders or frames to define a moment, or to formalize a seemingly casual event or relationship. In installation, I use the wall as a minimalist player in its own right to further define spacial relationships. The result is a visual display of correlating artistic impulses instigated by being in wild nature. See MFA Highlights for an example of painting and drawings in installation together. I aim to include photos in future groupings.

The other projects shown here are paintings that have defined my development as an artist during and since graduate school, and reveal the broader scope my painting sensibilities, and scale (small to grander).

I also make water-based and multi-media assemblages for immediate satisfaction and the exploration of possibilities (see Assemblage City). Paper, drawing fragments, found and dimensional shapes, and collected objects combine with paint to create hybrid material worlds. Read Less

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design - Halifax, Nova Scotia
September 1998 - August 2000
Master of Fine Arts - Painting

Rhode Island School of Design - Providence, Rhode Island
September 1989 - May 1993
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Painting

Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island
September 1990 - May 1992
Liberal Arts Coursework

European Honors Program - Rhode Island School of Design - Rome, Italy
September 1992 - May 1993 Read Less

First/Last
RISD West Coast Alumni Show
July 2014
Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA

4X6
Photography by Alice Gould
April 2011
Harbin Hot Springs Restaurant, Middletown, CA

Work from Dry Creek
July 2010
Harbin Hot Springs Restaurant, Middletown, CA

Spring Paintings
April 2008
Atlas Café, San Francisco, CA

Spring Open House
April 2007
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Nite Idyll -- Joe Frank Byrnes, Alice Gould, Christine Ponelle, Meryl Press, Jeff Pringle, Matthew Rogers
July-August 2006
Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA

Alice Gould
December-January 2005
Atlas Café, San Francisco, CA

Alice Gould Drawings
January-February 2004
Kozo Arts, San Francisco, CA

World War Woble – The New Dada
April 2003
Build, San Francisco, CA

Peace Show
March-May 2003
Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA

Paintings Show – Alice Gould, Jonathan Holland, Felix Mcnee, Marina Shterenberg, Lena Wolfe
December-January 2002-3
Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA

Soluble Fish – David Diviney, Alice Gould, Janet Robinson,
Mitchell Wiebe, Ward Williamson
Winter 2002
Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick

Eye Opener III
September 2002
Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS

All For One and One For All -- art auction
July 2002
Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA

1999
January 2002
Atlas Café, San Francisco, CA

Whole – Alice Gould, Mareike Lee, Jess Rowland
July 2000
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

MFA Thesis Exhibition Paintings and Drawings by Alice Gould
March-April 2000
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
January 2000
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

Drawings by Alice Gould
August 1999
Eyelevel gallery, Halifax, NS

Autumn Gold -- Exhibition/Sale of Contemporary Nova Scotian Art
October-November 1999
Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

50/50 Show and Sale
October 1999
Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, NS

Rats
collaborative paintings by Alice Gould, Chad Jagoe and Mitchell Wiebe
May 1999
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

MFA Group Exhibition
January 1999
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

Drawing First – juried exhibition
November 1993
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
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