88. LISA BRICE
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Untitled v, (Well Worn 1), 2014
Ink, gjesso and flashe on canvas
44 x 50.8cm
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Untitled xv, (Well Worn 18), 2015
Ink on paper
56 x 200cm
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Untitled vi (Cut your coat 2), 2014
Ink and flashe on primed
polyurethane film
240 x 101.5cm
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1968 in Cape Town, South Africa
Nowadays:
she
currently lives and works in London.
Studies:
Brice
majored in painting at Michaelis UCT, her early work included constructed
artworks combining found objects, or domestic materials such as linoleum, with
steel to make wall artworks, installations and sculptural pieces. In the last
decade she returned to painting, her work negotiates with authority the
difficult terrain between spontaneous drawing and figure painting. She uses
various painting and off set printing techniques on a variety of surfaces from
canvas to tracing paper, which often leads to repetition of a similar motifs or
figure’s in her work, sometimes biographical, at other times referencing art
history.
In 2006 Brice had her first solo exhibition of
paintings at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg titled Night Vision in which the
artist reflected on the uncertainties of childhood
Themes and
style:
One
either accepts or rejects the terms that are laid down. There are no
half-measures, no equivocations. The content is amazingly clear, the usage of
materials incisive. For Brice, her
work is a way of processing difficult experiences. Gender issues
and the dehumanising of women were to become a main theme for Brice in the 90’s.
Recent work reflected a return to an early theme: domestic security but is Safety what has become the ultimate global
neurosis. Brice's job is neither to indict nor celebrate this neurosis. Rather,
she suggests that the escalation of the very conditions contrary to freedom are
real, absurd and inescapable.
Techniques:
Her work is developed in different
media and paintings.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
Well Worn, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
2014 Cut
Your Coat, Gallery French Rivera, London
2012
Throwing the Floor, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
2009
More Wood for The fire, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa,
2007
Base One Two Three, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
2006
Night Vision, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2003
Lisa Brice, Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium
2000
Work in Transit, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1999
Lisa Brice, Hanel Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa ( monograph launch)
1999
Lisa Brice, Gallery Frank Hanel, Germany (monograph launch)
1998 In
The Eyes, Hanel Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1997
Staying Alive, Hanel Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1997
Staying Alive, Gallery Frank Hanel, Frankfurt, Germany
1997
Life, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1997 Art
Frankfurt’97, Gallery Frank Hanel, Germany
1995
Power Tools, Gallery Frank Hanel, Frankfurt, Germany
1994 You
Strike the Woman You Strike the Rock, Stargarder 18, Gallery Frank Hanel,
Berlin, Germany
1994
Plastic makes Perfect, Gallery Frank Hanel, Frankfurt, Germany
1993 Sex
Kittens, Gallery Frank Hanel, Frankfurt, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2014 Puppet
Show, Gävle Konstcentrum, Kultur & Fritid Gävle, Sweden (curators Tom Bloor
and Céline Condorelli)
2014 Puppet
Show, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (curators Tom Bloor and Celine
Condorelli)
2013 – 2014
What we did the following year, Ritter Zamet Galerie, London
2013 Lullaby,
McCabe Fine Art, Stockholm
2013
Art44Basel, Goodman Gallery Booth, Basel, Switzerland
2013 Frieze
London, Goodman Gallery Booth, London, UK
2013 FIAC,
Goodman Gallery Booth, Paris, France
2013 Copy Shop:
The Suit, Cape Town
2012 FIAC,
Goodman Gallery Booth, Paris, France
2011 Photomonth
Festival, curated by Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin and Francesca Astenasi,
Krakow, Poland
2011 Beguiling:
The Self and Subject, curated by Kirsty Cockerill, Irma Stern Museum, Cape
Town, South Africa
2010
Self-Consciousness, VeneKlasen/Werner, co-curated by artist Peter Doig and
writer Hilton Als, Berlin, Germany
2010 Open End,
Goodman Galley, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 The Marks
We Make, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 1910 to
2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, South African National Gallery, Cape Town,
South Africa
2010 BIP2010
(Out of) Contrll, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Leige, Belgium
2010 Winter
Show, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009 Legacies
of the Landscape, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2008 Art Basel,
Goodman Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2007 Art Basel,
Goodman Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2007 Lift Off
Two, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, SA
2006 Iselp
(Institut supérieur pour l’étude du langage plastique), Brussels, Belgium*
2005 Next Flag,
The African Sniper Project, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland*
2004 A Decade
of Democracy, curated by Emma Bedford, Iziko South African National Gallery,
Cape Town, SA *
2004 X, Stephen
Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London, UK
2004 Les
Afriques, curated by Laurent Jacob, Lille, France
2003 Away From
Home, Wexner Center for the Arts Columbus, Ohio, USA
2003
Intersections, South African Art from the BHP Billiton Collection, RMIT
University Melbourne, Australia
2003 Bootleg,
Curated by Craig Burnett, Sarah Craine Jones, Pernila Holmes, Pablo
Lafuenta, Tom
Norton and Catherine Patha, Spittafields Market, London, UK
2003 Resident:
Works on Paper, CCA7, curated by Peter Doig and Charlotte Elias, Port of Spain,
Trinidad
2003 New
Strategies, curated David Brodie, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South
Africa
2003 Picnic,
curated by Andrew Lamprecht, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2003 Free
Nelson Mandela, curated by Sean O’Toole, Klein Karoo National Art Festival,
Oudtshoorn, SA
2002 DAK’ART,
Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
2002 Paradise,
exhibition and collaborative billboard project with Adele Todd, CCA7, Port of
Spain, Trinidad
2001 Young
Generations in Transition, China, Germany, Britain, He Xiangning Art Gallery,
Shenzhen, China
2001
Supermarketed, curated by Chris Mew, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2000 Archive,
Quatier Contemporary Art Space, The Hague, Holland
2000 Secure the
Future, traveling exhibition curated by Marilyn Martin for the International
AIDS Conference, SA and USA
2000 Havana
Biennale, Havana, Cuba
1999 Art
Frankfurt, Galerie Frank Hanel, Germany
1999 Art Basel,
Galerie Frank Hanel, Switzerland
1998 Triennale
deer Kleinplastik, curated by Wener Mayer, Stadtisthe Gallery, Goppingen,
Germany
1998 FNB Vita
Awards, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
1998 The Body,
City, and Society, Saint Gilies, Brussels
1997 Smokkel,
2nd Johannesburg Biennale Fringe, Johannesburg, SA
1997 Unplugged,
group show, Rembrandt Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
1997 Art
Frankfurt, Galerie Frank Hanel, Germany
1997 30
Minutes, Robben Island Visitors Block, Cape Town, SA
1997 Life,
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
1997 End of the
Millennium, South African Festival, Nantes, France
1997 Art
Cologne, Galerie Frank Hanel, Germany
1996 Hanel
Gallery Opening Exhibition, Cape Town, SA
1996 Art
Frankfurt, Frankfurt Messe, Gallery Frank Hanel, Germany
1996 Vita Art
Now, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
1996 Colours,
opened by Nelson Mandela, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
1996
Groundswell, Mermaid Theatre Gallery, London
1996 Don’t Mess
with Mr Inbetween, curated by Ruth Rosengarten, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
1996 Art
Cologne, Gallery Frank Hanel, Germany
1996 3 × 10,
Hanel Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1995 Scurvy –
Secret Seven, Newtown Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
1995 Art
Cologne, Gallery Frank Hanel, Germany
1995 Springtime
in Chile_, curated by Wayne Barker, Museum of Contemporary Art, Satniago, Chile
1995 B_Young
South African Exhibition, Gallery Frank Hanel, Frankfurt, Germany
1995 The
Laager, curated by Wayne Barker, Johannesburg, SA
1994 Art
Cologne, Gallery Frank Hanel, Germany
Three-person
show, Gallery Goetz, curated by Jean Kampf, Basel, Switzerland
1994 Art Basel,
Gallery Frank Hanel, Basel, Switzerland
1994 Junge
Kunst International, Overbeck, Gessellschaft, Lubeck, Germany
1994 Election
X, curated by Malcolm Payne, SAAA, Cape Town, SA
1994 Art
Frankfurt, Gallery Frank Hanel, Frankfurt, Germany
1993 AIDS Show,
SAAA, Cape Town, SA
1993 Volkskas
Atelier Awards, nationwide exhibition, South Africa
1993 Art
Frankfurt Gallery Frank Hanel, Messe Frankfurt, Germany
1993 V_Art
Basel_, Gallery Frank Hanel, Basel, Switzerland
1993
Multicultural, Gallery Frank Hanel, Frankfurt, Germany
1992
Three-person Show, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, SA
1992
Three-person Show, Gallery Frank Hanel, Frankfurt, Germany
1992 Staff
Exhibition, University Gallery, Stellenbosch, SA
1992 Sculpture
Exhibition, University Gallery, Stellenbosch, SA
1992 Grosse
Dusseldorfer Kunstaustelling, Dusseldorfer, Germany
1991 Cape
Triennial, nationwide exhibition, SA
1990 Poster
Exhibition, Baxter Gallery, Cape Town SA
Michaelis
School of Fine Art Exhibition, Michaelis Gallery, UCT, Cape Town, SA
1989 Mail Art
from South Africa – a view from the inside, Soho 20 Gallery, New York, USA
1989 Visual
Arts Exhibition, Uluntu Center, Guguletu and Center for African Studies, UCT,
SA
1988 Artists
for Human Rights, Expo Exhibition Center, Durban, SA
Collections
Smithsonian
National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
BHP Billiton
(formerly Gencor) Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa
SABC
Collection, South Africa
Johannesburg
Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
South African
National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Michaelis
Cabinet, University of Cape Town. Cape Town, South Africa
Gallery Frank
Haenel, Frankfurt, Berlin, Germany
South African
High Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, England
Sindika Dokolo
– African Collection of Contemporary Art, Luanda, Angola
Smithsonian
National Museum of African Art in Washington DC
In her own words:
In painting, I crave the rush of getting
something right, of the work coming together. There are an infinite number of
ways this may be achieved with the same image (but not within the same
painting). I want to try them all. There is a parallel to the repeated actions
of chasing an emotional high through drugs, or love.
’I struggle at times with the romanticism
of painting and with the subject of love at a time of so much war and tragedy –
but of course how can one not… it is ammunition and an armour in dark times.
’Whilst Roland Barthes suggests “photography has been, and still is tormented
by the ghost of painting”, for me, I feel it moves in the opposite direction –
my painting process is “tormented” in a sense by photography. It is a real push
and pull with the photographic source material as starting point – the most
successful works in my opinion are those in which a real departure is made and
something else happens – a kind of alchemy I guess.’
Representative
Galleries:
Ramis Barquet
Lacan
Inverarte
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