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About the artist
Alice Dubiel has exhibited her work nationally
and throughout the Pacific states during the past 29 years. Much
of the artist's work is concerned with ecology and the politics
of representation. Solo installations at The City of Auburn Arts
Commission Gallery, the White Sturgeon Gallery at the Water Resources
Center in Vancouver, WA and a ten-year retrospective at Ohlone College
in Fremont CA featured paintings, interactive shrines and conceptual
work involving land use issues. In fall 2006, she was artist in
residence at North Cascades National Park.
Since 1994 she has created projects functioning
as visual components to community work. She has worked with the
Seattle Parks department, the Seattle Aquarium and the Medieval
Women's Choir of Seattle. The Landscape Tale and Implode
the Dome were conceptual works to stimulate community-based
land use dialogue, appearing at Bumbershoot, the Seattle Arts Festival,
911 media arts and in ArtPapers, published in Atlanta. 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. Her work appears in the collections of
the University of Washington and Swedish Medical Centers and is
represented in private West Coast collections.
Dubiel's bookworks have appeared
in traveling exhibitions, "crosscurrents" and "A
Book in Hand" and in California at the Fresno Art Museum,
Brand Library Art Gallery, SOMAR Center in San Francisco, Southwestern
College, and Humboldt State University; at the University of Wisconsin
and the Massachusetts State House. Other work has been shown in
New York, San Antonio, Portland, Edinburgh and Daegu, Korea.
A current project, The Hazel Tree Mother, develops a narrative
based on the story of 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.
In addition to offering courses in studio art and expository writing,
she has taught English literature and art history, especially focusing
on ancient, medieval and contemporary art. Her work appears in Women
Artists of the American West by Susan Ressler.
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