Alicja Coe
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        Alicja Knitter Coe - was born in Poland and educated at the 
Academy Of Fine Art  (PWSSP and now UAP) in Poznan, Poland. 
        During many years studying art in Poland, Alicja focused on painting in oil, acrylic, and pastel. Excelling in these skills, she found the opportunity to explore painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and photography as well as performance art  and installation.  

       She worked as an illustrator for a newspapers in Poland.  Working as a designer for a publishing house, she had taken part in creating catalogs, and complex books, as well as preparing drawings, paintings, or illustrations.   
        Alicja has worked in the architectural field as well, preparing color palettes for new or historical architecture.  She has also taught art for ten years to adults and children.

        Alicja was a member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP), and a member of The Art Association “Wieża Ciśnień”, which brings together a wide range of artists, art historians, curators, etc. giving her a chance to explore art in action, performance, video art, and much more.

She frequently takes part by donating works in special auctions in Poland and Europe.
     
Obraz

        While attending countless "plein airs”-  a form of art workshop in Poland and Europe, she had opportunity to meet other Polish and European artists working in different mediums and various forms of artistic expression, sharing with each other different approaches to art.
       While active in the Polish art community, she frequently exhibited individually and in group shows.
       
         Since 2007, Alicja has lived and worked in Berkeley, California, where she continues her artistic progress. For ten years she taught art to adults and children in Poland, and now she teaches drawing, painting in oil, acrylic, gouache, pastels and other media in The San Francisco Bay Area.

         Email, if you would like to arrange lessons for yourself, or as a gift to a friend.

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Artist



Statement

      I want to paint not what I know, but what I feel and how I see the World.
I am on the voyage of discovery.
      To paint what one feels or sees, is the most personal.
One person sees the edge of the woods with a curious eye, another a rainbow of flowers in the meadow before the woods, and yet another may see only the silhouette of contrast of the wood against the sky.
      Here is the diversity, we can begin to explore ourselves and follow our feelings, our curiosity, into a rainbow of color, full of emotion in the meadow flowers; or a deeper, darker analogy in the contrast of woods against the sky.
     A lifetime exists in exploring these sights and feelings welling from my soul.
     I rarely have a complete idea or image in my mind when begin work. Landscapes become a metaphor of my exploration.
     I enjoy placing the observer into a concentrated inner space, exiting all senses, and giving one feeling of voyage through a new World.

Education

1991   MFA, Academy Of Fine Art (PWSSP now UAP) Poznań, Poland

Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS   ( SELECTED )

​2018     July - East Bay Open Studios - Painting & Photography.
             Makers Workspace, Berkeley, California
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2015    December Painting Exhibit, TFH, Berkeley, California.

2014     Photography -The French Hotel and Cafe, Berkeley, California.

2013     The French Hotel and Cafe, Berkeley, California. Painting.

2012     Pro Arts Open Studios, individual painting exhibition “Focus on abstract” at  TFH,                               Berkeley, California

2011     The French Hotel and Cafe, Berkeley, California. Painting.

2010     The French Hotel and Cafe, Berkeley, California. Painting, Drawing, and Pastel
 
2009     Pro Arts Open Studios,  individual art show at 4th St., Berkeley, California.

2009     The French Hotel and Cafe, Berkeley, California. Painting.

2005     MDK Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland

2004     Exhibition “Faces-Masks-Happening” - Węgliszek, Bydgoszcz, Poland

2003     Angels Show, The Tea House, Painting & Graphic, Bydgoszcz, Poland

2003     The Center Of Environmental Education, Paintings, Myślęcinek, Poland

1998      Gallery THEATRE, Paintings, Bydgoszcz, Poland

1998      DK Gallery, Paintings, Kcynia, Poland

1997      DK Gallery, Paintings, Pakość, Poland

1997      Plama’s Gallery, Paintings, Szubin, Poland

1997      Church MB.Gallery, Paintings, Czarna Woda, Poland

1995      Autorska Gallery, Paintings, Bydgoszcz, Poland

1994      Kantorek Gallery “Though”, Paintings, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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1991      Academy Of Fine Art (PWSSP), Poznań, Poland, Graduate Exhibition

 

GROUP EXHIBITONS  ( SELECTED ) 

2016   Wild & Scenic Film Festival Art Exhibition, Nevada City, and Grass Valley, California

2016/  "Solstice" Exhibition at 4th Street Fine Art Gallery, Berkeley, California
2015 

2015   Galeria33 - Academy Of Art (UAP), Poznań, 1991 Graduates, retrospective exhibition
            Ostrow Wlkp, Poland

2014/  Berkeley Art Center, Array:  Members exhibition, Berkeley, California
2013

2012    Pro Arts, East Bay Open Studios preview exhibition, Oakland, California.

2010    Firehouse Art Collective, Berkeley, California

2009    Pro Arts, East Bay Open Studios preview exhibition, Oakland, California.

2009    Aspect Art Gallery, San Francisco, California

2008    Harmonique Home - Berkeley, California

2007    Art Gallery, El Cerrito Gallery, California

2006    Artists in Residency, Osterbeek, Netherlands

2005    Artwork Of The Year, ZPAP- BWA Bydgoszcz, Poland

2005    Gallery MÓZG, Bydgoszcz, Poland

2004    Gallery “Autorska”, Bydgoszcz, Poland

2004    Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum , Bydgoszcz, Poland

2003    International Painting Workshops, Dębno, Poland

2003    Nationwide Painting Wokrshops, Zaborek, Poland

2003    International Painting Workshops, Dębno, Poland

2002    International Painting Workshops, Dębno, Poland

2002    BWA, Szczecin, Poland

2002    Gallery "Autorska" - Bydgoszcz, Poland

2001    III International Painting Workshops, Marianowo, Poland

2001    Museum of Southern Podlasie, Biała Podlaska, Poland

2001    MDK, Międzyrzec Podlaski

2001    Nationwide Painting Wokrshops, Zaborek, Poland

2001    BWA,  Gorzów Wlk. - Gallery MOK, Poland

2000    BWA , Gorzów Wlkp - workshops in Smolnica, Poland

2000    MDK, Międzyrzec Podlaski, Poland

2000    International Art Workshops, REJS, Noteć River Valley, Poland

1999    MDK Nakło, Poland

1998    Gallery WENECJA, Bydgoszcz, Poland

1997    Gallery Of The Art Association “Wieża Ciśnień", Bydgoszcz, Poland

1997    Gallery PLAMA’S, Szubin, Poland

1997    Gallery MÓZG, Bydgoszcz, Poland

1996    Gallery Of The Art Association “Wieża Ciśnień", Bydgoszcz, Poland

1994    Gallery Of The Art Association “Wieża Ciśnień", Bydgoszcz, Poland

1994    II Art Biennial in BWA, Bydgoszcz, Poland

1993    Art Performances at the Gallery Of The Art Association “Wieża Ciśnień", Bydgoszcz, Poland

1992    The Art Of Members - Association “Wieża Ciśnień”, Bydgoszcz, Poland

1991    Gallery Of The Art Association “Wieża Ciśnień", The Initiation, Bydgoszcz, Poland 

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