Alisa Margolis

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Alisa Margolis (* 1975 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is an American painter of Ukrainian descent who works in Germany .

Life

Alisa Margolis studied at Columbia University in New York between 1993 and 1997 . In 1997 she received the National Arts Club's Red Grooms Art Prize . With a scholarship, she was able to work at the independent artists' institute in De Ateliers in Amsterdam from 2001 to 2005 and then, from 2005 to 2006, at the Delfina Studio Trust in London. In 2015 she was one of four winners of the Villa Romana Art Prize.

Her works have been publicly exhibited several times, including in 2004 Expander at the London Royal Academy of Arts and in 2005 at the 2nd Prague Biennale in Prague. Also in 2004 her painting The Triumph of Painting was shown in the Saatchi Gallery in London and in 2009 Walker Evans and the Barn in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . In 2013 she took part in the open-air sculpture triennial in the Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin .

In general, she creates her works, which combine abstract compositions with floral motifs and are to be visually arranged between figurative and abstraction, “with energetic colored brushstrokes on a black background”. Margolis lives and works in Berlin .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gwefan theartofpainting.be; 2016.
  2. ^ Villa Romana, Florence - laureate since 1905; accessed on March 18, 2017
  3. ↑ praguebiennale.org
  4. ↑ http://prinzessinnengarten.net/phylogenese-der-freigebigkeit/ prinzessinnengarten.net
  5. ↑ profile Alisa Margolis on widewalls.ch ; accessed on March 18, 2017
  6. ↑ Biography Alisa Margolis on artnet.de ; accessed on March 18, 2017 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Margolis, Alisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Ukrainian SSR