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