Arienne Lepretre
website: ariennelepretre.com
Instagram: @ariennelepretre
Facebook: @ariennelepretre
Linked In: Arienne Lepretre
Statement:
I build my paintings up through improvisational processes and uncontrolled instinctual color applications. Interesting areas appear, and are then either disrupted, erased or enticed into compositions of ambiguous shapes. Arranging and rearranging until all the components work. I find joy in the ambiguous shapes that emerge and their humorous dialogues. Shapes that seem strange but are easily recognizable by our brain, seemingly familiar but not known as everyday objects rather known on a deeper level in the interior perhaps because they mimic natural organic or body structures. It is a cycle of color over shape, painting and painting until the right thing happens.
Education
2011-2013 MFA, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, Dallas, TX. Focus on Painting and Drawing
1972-1978 HFBK, University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Diploma in Textile Design
1971-1972 Boyes- Pulley Schule
Teaching Experience
2021 Adjunct Faculty. Dallas College, Richland Campus, Dallas, Texas
2019 -2020 Adjunct Faculty. Dallas College, Richland Campus, Dallas, Texas
2011-2012 Adjunct teacher, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Other Experience
1998 -2008 ACL Homes - Design and Construction, President. Dallas, Texas
1985 -1998 Arteriors Intl. Interior Design and Purchasing. Dallas, Texas
1978-1985 Private art instruction. Nairobi, Kenya
Awards
2011-2013 Meadows School of the Arts Artistic Scholarship Award
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2021 Faculty show, Richland College, Dallas, TX
2021 Hamptons Art Fair, Southampton, New York
2021 Blueprint Gallery, Dallas TX
2020 Brazos Gallery, Richland College, Dallas, TX
2019 Brazos Gallery, Richland College, Dallas, TX
2019 Juried Show benefiting Art for Advocacy, North Park, Dallas, TX
2019 Blueprint Gallery, Dallas, TX,
2019 Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX Perspectives, Nature.
2018 Blueprint Gallery, Dallas, TX
2018 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2018 Ward Gallery, Petoskey, Michigan -June
2018 Ginger Fox Gallery, Artscape, Dallas, Tx
2018 Vignette Art Fair, Women's Museum, Dallas TX
2017 Louis Vuitton, North Park, Dallas TX,Rise, Art for Advocacy,
2017 Blueprint Gallery, Botanicals, Dallas, TX
2017 D Artscape, Invitational Fine art auction, Dallas, TX
2016 Blueprint Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, New Texas Talent, Jurist Barry Whistler
2015 Experiencing Perspectives, Invitational Show, Headquarters, Mercedes-Benz, Ft. Worth, TX
2013 Atonement- 13 Diptychs, Whitestone Reit Tower, Dallas, TX
2013 Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, TX, MFA Qualifying Exhibition,
2012 Shapes, Solo Show, Doolin Gallery, SMU, Dallas, TX
2011 Experiencing Perspectives, Invitational Show, Headquarters, Mercedes- Benz, Dallas,TX
2005 Dallas Contemporary, TX, Members Show
2003 Hargett Associates Gallery, Dallas, TX
2003 McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX, Members Show
1999 World Women Artists, Dallas, TX
1997 Arienne Lepretre, Boyd-Levinson Gallery, Dallas, TX
1984 Gallery Watatu, Nairobi, Kenya, Arienne und Roli
1983 Gallery Watatu, Nairobi, Kenya, Solo Show: Arienne von Zitzewitz
1981 Solo show, New Stanley Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, Arienne von Zitzewitz, opening by Sir Michael Wood
Press
2018. Interview Boston Voyager Magazine July/August 2018
2018 Interview Luxe Magazine March April Issue 2018
2018 Modern Luxury Dallas, May Issue 2018
2018 Mountain Homestyle Aspen /Snowmass/ Telluride/Vail Spring
2017 Interview SMU Look Magazine
2016 DHome Magazine- September issue
2010 FD Luxe
2005 Papercity Dallas
2004 Papercity Dallas
2003 Southern Accents
2003 Interview Dallas Home Design, July 2003, by Steve Carter
1984 Review The Sunday Nation, Nairobi, Kenya
1983 Review The Kenya Times