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Alice Dubiel has
exhibited her work internationally and nationally, especially throughout
the Pacific states during the past 29 years. Most of the artist¡¯s work
is concerned with ecology and the politics of representation; other
works explore the politics of reproduction. Solo installations at Auburn
Arts Commission Gallery, the White Sturgeon Gallery at the Water
Resources Center in Vancouver, WA and a retrospective at Ohlone College
in Fremont CA featured paintings, interactive shrines and conceptual
work involving land use. In fall 2006, she was artist in residence at
North Cascades National Park.
Older projects included The Landscape Tale and Implode the Dome,
conceptual works to stimulate community-based land use dialogue. In
1990, the artist collaborated with artists Marita Dingus, Ann Rosenthal
and Sarah Teofanov to create Dreaming the Earth Whole at Bumbershoot and
the Tacoma Art Museum.
Dubiel¡¯s works on agriculture, feminism and reproduction have appeared
in California, New York, San Antonio, Portland, Edinburgh and Daegu,
Korea.
A current project, The Hazel Tree Mother, develops a narrative based on
Cinderella and its traditional links to trees. The secret identity of
the heroine explores the dialectic between the studies of ecology and
evolution.
Alice Dubiel works and lives with her family in Seattle where she
volunteers as an amateur naturalist. Born in Berkeley, CA, she received
an MA in painting from San Jose State University and an AB in English
literature from UC Santa Cruz, pursuing graduate literature studies in
medieval literature, art and critical theory at Bryn Mawr College and UC
Irvine. In 1984, Dubiel received funds from the National Endowment for
the Humanities for research on women¡¯s performance. In 2007 she received
funds from 4Culture in King County, WA for The Hazel Tree Mother. Her
work appears in Women Artists of the American West by Susan Ressler.
(website:
http://www.zmag.org/zspace/alicedubiel ) |
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