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I make art based on color, texture and contrast, often related to nature and weather. Circles, drop-shapes, wayward ribbons, suns and moons, and “encounters with paint” (swirled blobs, splatters, fragments or cut-outs of dried paint from my palette) are frequent inhabitants of the spaces, speaking an autobiographical, abstract language.

I use oil paint because of the buttery quality and its mineral strength. I like the thickness and versatility – from flat matte grounds to dimensional, sculpted formations and heavy blobs. I like the smell, which triggers memories from my first encounters with paint and my love of the studio.

Drawing is mainly gestural for me and stream-of-consciousness. Former days of portraiture and figure drawing creep in and guide me -- then suddenly the instrument, my hand, arm, and imagination take over.

I also make water-based and multi-media paintings for immediate satisfaction and the exploration of possibilities (see "Random Cool"). Paper, drawing fragments, found and dimensional shapes, and collected objects combine with paint to create hybrid material worlds. Read Less

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design - Halifax, Nova Scotia
September 1998 - August 2000
Master of Fine Arts - Painting

Rhode Island School of Design - Providence, Rhode Island
September 1989 - May 1993
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Painting

Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island
September 1990 - May 1992
Liberal Arts

European Honors Program - Rhode Island School of Design - Rome, Italy
September 1992 - May 1993 Read Less

SOLO

4X6 -- Photography by Alice Gould
April 2011
Harbin Hot Springs, Middletown, CA

Work from Dry Creek
July 2010
Harbin Hot Springs, Middletown, CA

Spring Paintings
April 2008
Atlas Café, san Francisco, CA

Alice Gould
December-January 2005
Atlas Café, San Francisco, CA

Alice Gould Drawings
January-February 2004
Kozo Arts, San Francisco, CA

1999
January 2002
Atlas Café, San Francisco, CA

MFA Thesis Exhibition Paintings and Drawings by Alice Gould
March-April 2000
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

Drawings by Alice Gould
August 1999
Eyelevel gallery, Halifax, NS


GROUP

Spring Open House
April 2007
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Nite Idyll – Joe Frank Byrnes, Alice Gould, Christine Ponelle,
Meryl Press, Jeff Pringle, Matthew Rogers
July-August 2006
Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA

World War Woble – The New Dada
April 2003
Build, San Francisco, CA

Peace Show
March-May 2003
Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA

Paintings Show – Alice Gould, Jonathan Holland, Felix Mcnee, Marina Shterenberg, Lena Wolfe
December-january 2002-3
Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA

Soluble Fish – David Diviney, Alice Gould, Janet Robinson,
Mitchell Wiebe, Ward Williamson
Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick

Eye Opener III
September 2002
Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS

All For One and One For All -- art auctiion
July 2002
Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA

Whole – Alice Gould, Mareike Lee, Jess Rowland
July 2000
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
January 2000
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

Autumn Gold -- Exhibition/Sale of Contemporary Nova Scotian Art
October-November 1999
Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

50/50 Show and Sale
October 1999
Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, NS

Rats
collaborative paintings by Alice Gould, Chad Jagoe and Mitchell Wiebe
May 1999
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

MFA Group Exhibition
January 1999
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

Drawing First – juried exhibition
November 1993
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Read Less