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. She wrote on art for French magazines and PAPER magazine and became immersed in the East Village art scene, participating in curated group exhibitions such as “Anni Ottanta”, a museum show in Italy, “City Folk” curated by Carlo McCormick and Aaron Rose at the Holly Solomon gallery in NYC, “In the Detail” curated by Kiki Smith in Munich, Germany. She mounted several solo shows in France and in the US, notably at Commonwealth and Council in LA, in Brittany, France, in collaboration with a French government ecological agency and at the former squat Bullet Space in New York. Her early work is published in “A Book About Colab’ distributed by Printed Matter. Her artist projects in collaboration with writer-cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer were published by Pataphysics magazine and Made magazine. Her exhibitions were 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, artist collections such as Sara Driver and Jim Jarmusch, Tom Otterness and Coleen Fitzgibbon collections and other private collections, the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, the School of Visual Arts rare books collection. Her zine about the fabric works produced during workshops in community garden is distributed by Printed Matter.

          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”.

          

         

          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/



                    

                    Artist Project in collaboration with Sylvère Lotringer
                   published by Pataphysics Magazine