Brigitte Nicole Grice

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

Brigitte Nicole Grice's ongoing Quartets painting series transfixes the canvas into four quadrants, each acting as a specific spell, coda and evocation to a higher divine consciousness. The artist's Quartets bring forth meditated distillations on her lived-experiences to the esoteric, loves, and a symphonic gesture to the quartet. Grice's painted process stands in dialogue to my film practice. Where the elements on the canvas conjure loose associations to the poetics, dialogue and cinematic references transferred to the painted medium. Dialogue used in her film such as "Anyone who imagines all fruits open at the same time as strawberries knows nothing about grapes" seeps into the painted framework of these Quartets. Each work nods to the artist's ongoing philosophical and ethical contemplation of the possibilities of fertility, the power of the androgynous, ecological resilience and her grand wish for an evolutionary revolution on earth. She is an artist, filmmaker, poet and scholar on Surrealism. She received a B.S. in Journalism and Art History from Boston University, an M.A. in Aesthetics and Politics at CalArts and recently received her doctorate at the University of Essex entitled International Surrealism and the Contemporary Epoch: A Surrealist Document with Questions, Principles and Memory Maps—a written thesis and ongoing documentary film project. Brigitte Nicole Grice also acts as curator, organizer, and hostess for an expanded field of art under the alter-ego...

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