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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. |
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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. |
Artist
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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
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Exhibitions |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS ( SELECTED )
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 1991 Academy Of Fine Art (PWSSP), Poznań, Poland, Graduate Exhibition |
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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 |
Plein Airs
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PLEIN AIRS and WORKSHOPS ( the list will appear soon)
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