Brigitte Engler is a French-born, New York-based abstract painter who maintains a studio practice in New York City and a public practice in community gardens on the Lower East Side. Classically trained at L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York in 1980 and became immersed in the Downtown art and culture scene, participating in curated group exhibitions such as “Anni Ottanta”, a museum show in Italy and writing articles on art for PAPER magazine.
Her work has been exhibited in several solo shows in the US, notably at Commonwealth and Council in LA and in France, reviewed in art magazines and French newspapers. Her artist projects in collaboration with writer-cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer were published by Pataphysics magazine.
Brigitte Engler’s abstract paintings are in the Beth Rudin DeWoody collection, the Geoffrey Young collection, the Alan W.Moore family collection, the Tom Otterness and Coleen Fitzgibbon collection, the Estate of David Wojnarowicz, the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection + Archives at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and in private collections in Europe and in Italy.
For more information, please e-mail: brigitte.engler131@gmail.com
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ABOUT the series of stitched pieces, French writer Emmanuelle Guattari wrote in a catalogue essay in French, translated in English for a bi-lingual publication commemorating a solo exhibition in Paris:
“Brigitte Engler’s stitched pieces are like pixels in a photography. They take us to the center of an image of the material world to the point where the image dissolves itself. We are in the other reality of this world, the poetic reality of the vein, the bark, the structure, the primal vibrations. A little bit like Alice, we fell inside a space, a vibrating and beautiful interior space where circulates a secret intensity”.
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For the full exhibition catalogue essay by French writer Emmanuelle Guattari and links to early artist collaborations with French writer and cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer, please consult: http://www.brigitteengler.com/
“Brigitte Engler’s stitched pieces are like pixels in a photography. They take us to the center of an image of the material world to the point where the image dissolves itself. We are in the other reality of this world, the poetic reality of the vein, the bark, the structure, the primal vibrations. A little bit like Alice, we fell inside a space, a vibrating and beautiful interior space where circulates a secret intensity”.
For the full exhibition catalogue essay by French writer Emmanuelle Guattari and links to early artist collaborations with French writer and cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer, please consult: http://www.brigitteengler.com/