Brigitte Engler is a French-born, New York-based artist. She was classically trained at L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York in 1980 and became immersed in the East Village scene, participating in curated group exhibitions such as “Anni Ottanta”, a museum show in Italy, and writing on art for French magazines and PAPER magazine. Her artist projects in collaboration with writer-cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer were published by Pataphysics magazine. While raising two children in the East Village, her engagement with progressive education and environmental actions took her work out in schools and community gardens to foster learning and build community through the arts.
Her work has been exhibited in several solo shows in France and in the US, notably at Commonwealth and Council in LA and at the former squat Bullet Space in New York. Her exhibitions are reviewed in American art magazines and French newspapers.
Brigitte Engler’s paintings, drawings and artist books are in the Beth Rudin DeWoody collection, the Vincent and Shelly Fremont 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 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
ABOUT the series of stitched pieces, French writer Emmanuelle Guattari writes 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/
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“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/
