CV
2012
“Escott’s research-heavy practice involves faithful representations of mediated imagery on semi-transparent plastic surfaces, connecting plastic to the commodification of the “natural” by demonstrating Roland Barthes' statement that “the whole world can be plasticized…even life itself.” Escott uses plastic as a loaded surface for her drawings in order to not only critique environmentally destructive behaviors but also to chart the circulation of matter, images and ideologies.”
—Mathew Alexander Post
—Mathew Alexander Post
ALICIA ESCOTT
www.aliciaescott.com
Education
2007-2009 California College of the Art, Masters of Fine Arts
1998-2002 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bachelors of Fine Arts
2000 International School of Art, Umbria, Italy
1996 Rhode Island School of Design
Artist Residencies and Awards:
Djerassi Resident Artist Program Fellowship residency August 2012
Anderson Ranch Residency Fellowship residency February – April 2010
J B Blunk Fellowship residency October/November 2009
Trash into Treasure International competition Fourth place, 2009
Richard K. Price Scholarship in Painting 2008
SF League of Conservation Voters, best in show 2007
Commissions and publications of The Love Letter Project :
Dandelion Magazine Society: issue 37.3, Poets Galore, 2012
Landfill Quarterly: issue 3, Species Being, 2012
Art Practical Mail Art Subscription, 2012
Bibliography:
The WILD Magazine, Alicia Escott at Interface Gallery by Abigail Doan,
February 2013
The San Francisco Chronicle, Alicia Escott's Dystopian Vision by Kimberly
Chun, February 2013
The East Bay Express, Review of And the Crowd Rushed Together by Alex
Bigman, February 2013
In The Make: studio visits with west coast artists, January 2013
Little Paper Planes, If we don't, remember me, August 2012
La Petite Zine, Issue 29: The Itch
Animal Imagery Magazine: Winter/Spring 2011
Articulate: Art and: the Decimation of Species, December 2011
San Francisco Examiner Love Letters to Extinct Animals, May 2011
Love Letters Live Radio interview SFSU Radio, May, 2011
EcoSalon Exclusive: Alicia Escott’s Wisdom of Heartbreak May 2011
Argot & Ocher Interview A Complex Love Affair, 2011
Curbs & Stoops Review Last night again you were in my dreams, 2010
KQED Art Review CCA, MFA show May 12th 2009
Shotgun Review CCA, MFA show June 2009
Plastic Antimony Magazine Quarterly issue 3 2009
Eflux image for Rising Tide Conference ad on eflux 2009
Sustainable Sushi, North Atlantic Books, Random House January 2009
KRON 4, Bay Area Green Art, February 21 2008
Selected Exhibitions:
2013 Solo:
The crowed had rushed together, trying to stay warm, Interface Gallery,
Oakland, CA
2013 Group:
Peaceable Kingdom, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2012
re:Told, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco CA
Performing Community, Somarts, San Francisco CA
Post Haste, MacArthur B Arthur Gallery, Oakland CA
Un-Space Ground, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles CA
2011
Time x Time, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
356Days of Print, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
356Days of Print Visual Arts Gallery at NJCU, Jersey City, NJ
Hello Tomorrow, David Brower Center, Berkley, CA
2010 Solo
Last Night, Again, You Were In My Dreams… SEA Change Gallery, Everett
Station, Portland
2010 Group:
Intimate Nature, Berkley Arts Center
Alluring Subdivisions, The Oliver Arts Center
The Institute For Figuring, The Smithsonian Gallery, Washington DC
CREAM: from the Top: Best of bay area MFA, MarinMOCA, Novato, CA
Jay Henderson: Every Artist Thinks they Make Gold… SecondHome
Projects, Berlin
JB Blunk Residency Show, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Proliferations II, Off Space Collective, San Francisco, CA
Crystalline Justice, Patton-Mallot Gallery, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
2009
Flamenco and Frog Legs, LincArt Gallery San Francisco, CA
Refract House Solar Decathlon show house third place, National Mall
Washington DC
Intrim Infills, Sight specific out door art show curated by Sally Sweed, San
Francisco,
Trash into Treasure, Lincart Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Re-consider, Art Space 404, Santa Rosa, CA
Opening Salvo for Suit 418, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco
CCA MFA Show, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Mixed Metaphors and Obsessive Compulsive Behaviors, Michael Rosenthal
Gallery, SF, CA
Post Bling: Profit on the Burning Shore, PlaySpace Gallery, San Francisco
The Paradox of the Set, Onsix Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hyperbolic Coral Reef: Institute for Figuring and companions, Track16
Gallery, Santa Monica
Compost Show (Juried by Philip Ross), Art Space 404, Santa Rosa CA
2008
The Plastic Exploding Inevitable, Right Window Gallery at ATA, SF, CA
Hyperbolic Coral Reef: Institute for Figuring Hayward Gallery, London, UK
LNPB episode IV Haste Management, Visage Gallery, Portland OR
Night of 1000 Drawings Artist Space, New York, NY
Out of Order, (collaboration with Jan Van Woensel) PlaySpace Gallery, SF,
CA
Bail Out, FiveTen Gallery, Oakland, CA
The History of FishSpace, FishSpace Gallery, SF, CA
What We Bought ,Farleys, SF, CA
Experimental Drawing Show, Mission Cultural Center, SF, CA
LNPB episode III Gumbo Gallery, Portland, OR
ArtCycle, Fort Gallery Oakland, CA
Art from Refuse, HVAC, Huron Valley, MI
The Rainbow Show!, Café Royale, SF, CA
California as Paradox, Fort Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007 Solo
Chasing Arrows, Café Royale, SF (Collaboration with Arron Cohen)
2007 Group:
The Mix Tape, Alliance Frances SF, CA
I Heart SF, SF League of Conservation Voters Fundraiser,111 Minna, SF, CA
Recycling reuse show, Pandora’s trunk, San Francisco, CA
Lecturing:
2012 Chico State University, Juror’s Lecture
2010 Alluring Subversions symposium, Timkin Hall, California College of the Arts
2010 Resident lecture Schermer Hall, Anderson Ranch
2010 Visiting artist lecture, undergraduate painting with Chris Finley
2010 Visiting artist lecture, graduate seminar with Brian Conley
Teaching:
California College of the Arts, SF, CA
2011/2012 Alumni Artist Mentor
2010 CCA Junior Review panelist
2009 Teaching Assistant, Painting Materials and Methods with John Zurier.
Teaching Assistant, Advanced studio with John Zurier
Public Collections
Green Peace San Francisco Office
Private collections:
Available on request
www.aliciaescott.com
Education
2007-2009 California College of the Art, Masters of Fine Arts
1998-2002 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bachelors of Fine Arts
2000 International School of Art, Umbria, Italy
1996 Rhode Island School of Design
Artist Residencies and Awards:
Djerassi Resident Artist Program Fellowship residency August 2012
Anderson Ranch Residency Fellowship residency February – April 2010
J B Blunk Fellowship residency October/November 2009
Trash into Treasure International competition Fourth place, 2009
Richard K. Price Scholarship in Painting 2008
SF League of Conservation Voters, best in show 2007
Commissions and publications of The Love Letter Project :
Dandelion Magazine Society: issue 37.3, Poets Galore, 2012
Landfill Quarterly: issue 3, Species Being, 2012
Art Practical Mail Art Subscription, 2012
Bibliography:
The WILD Magazine, Alicia Escott at Interface Gallery by Abigail Doan,
February 2013
The San Francisco Chronicle, Alicia Escott's Dystopian Vision by Kimberly
Chun, February 2013
The East Bay Express, Review of And the Crowd Rushed Together by Alex
Bigman, February 2013
In The Make: studio visits with west coast artists, January 2013
Little Paper Planes, If we don't, remember me, August 2012
La Petite Zine, Issue 29: The Itch
Animal Imagery Magazine: Winter/Spring 2011
Articulate: Art and: the Decimation of Species, December 2011
San Francisco Examiner Love Letters to Extinct Animals, May 2011
Love Letters Live Radio interview SFSU Radio, May, 2011
EcoSalon Exclusive: Alicia Escott’s Wisdom of Heartbreak May 2011
Argot & Ocher Interview A Complex Love Affair, 2011
Curbs & Stoops Review Last night again you were in my dreams, 2010
KQED Art Review CCA, MFA show May 12th 2009
Shotgun Review CCA, MFA show June 2009
Plastic Antimony Magazine Quarterly issue 3 2009
Eflux image for Rising Tide Conference ad on eflux 2009
Sustainable Sushi, North Atlantic Books, Random House January 2009
KRON 4, Bay Area Green Art, February 21 2008
Selected Exhibitions:
2013 Solo:
The crowed had rushed together, trying to stay warm, Interface Gallery,
Oakland, CA
2013 Group:
Peaceable Kingdom, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2012
re:Told, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco CA
Performing Community, Somarts, San Francisco CA
Post Haste, MacArthur B Arthur Gallery, Oakland CA
Un-Space Ground, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles CA
2011
Time x Time, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
356Days of Print, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
356Days of Print Visual Arts Gallery at NJCU, Jersey City, NJ
Hello Tomorrow, David Brower Center, Berkley, CA
2010 Solo
Last Night, Again, You Were In My Dreams… SEA Change Gallery, Everett
Station, Portland
2010 Group:
Intimate Nature, Berkley Arts Center
Alluring Subdivisions, The Oliver Arts Center
The Institute For Figuring, The Smithsonian Gallery, Washington DC
CREAM: from the Top: Best of bay area MFA, MarinMOCA, Novato, CA
Jay Henderson: Every Artist Thinks they Make Gold… SecondHome
Projects, Berlin
JB Blunk Residency Show, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Proliferations II, Off Space Collective, San Francisco, CA
Crystalline Justice, Patton-Mallot Gallery, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
2009
Flamenco and Frog Legs, LincArt Gallery San Francisco, CA
Refract House Solar Decathlon show house third place, National Mall
Washington DC
Intrim Infills, Sight specific out door art show curated by Sally Sweed, San
Francisco,
Trash into Treasure, Lincart Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Re-consider, Art Space 404, Santa Rosa, CA
Opening Salvo for Suit 418, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco
CCA MFA Show, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Mixed Metaphors and Obsessive Compulsive Behaviors, Michael Rosenthal
Gallery, SF, CA
Post Bling: Profit on the Burning Shore, PlaySpace Gallery, San Francisco
The Paradox of the Set, Onsix Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hyperbolic Coral Reef: Institute for Figuring and companions, Track16
Gallery, Santa Monica
Compost Show (Juried by Philip Ross), Art Space 404, Santa Rosa CA
2008
The Plastic Exploding Inevitable, Right Window Gallery at ATA, SF, CA
Hyperbolic Coral Reef: Institute for Figuring Hayward Gallery, London, UK
LNPB episode IV Haste Management, Visage Gallery, Portland OR
Night of 1000 Drawings Artist Space, New York, NY
Out of Order, (collaboration with Jan Van Woensel) PlaySpace Gallery, SF,
CA
Bail Out, FiveTen Gallery, Oakland, CA
The History of FishSpace, FishSpace Gallery, SF, CA
What We Bought ,Farleys, SF, CA
Experimental Drawing Show, Mission Cultural Center, SF, CA
LNPB episode III Gumbo Gallery, Portland, OR
ArtCycle, Fort Gallery Oakland, CA
Art from Refuse, HVAC, Huron Valley, MI
The Rainbow Show!, Café Royale, SF, CA
California as Paradox, Fort Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007 Solo
Chasing Arrows, Café Royale, SF (Collaboration with Arron Cohen)
2007 Group:
The Mix Tape, Alliance Frances SF, CA
I Heart SF, SF League of Conservation Voters Fundraiser,111 Minna, SF, CA
Recycling reuse show, Pandora’s trunk, San Francisco, CA
Lecturing:
2012 Chico State University, Juror’s Lecture
2010 Alluring Subversions symposium, Timkin Hall, California College of the Arts
2010 Resident lecture Schermer Hall, Anderson Ranch
2010 Visiting artist lecture, undergraduate painting with Chris Finley
2010 Visiting artist lecture, graduate seminar with Brian Conley
Teaching:
California College of the Arts, SF, CA
2011/2012 Alumni Artist Mentor
2010 CCA Junior Review panelist
2009 Teaching Assistant, Painting Materials and Methods with John Zurier.
Teaching Assistant, Advanced studio with John Zurier
Public Collections
Green Peace San Francisco Office
Private collections:
Available on request
