Kelli Bickman
11:11 Studio
Kelli Bickman is a multi-media artist. She grew up on a farm in Minnesota, studied art in Wisconsin and London and moved to the West Village of New York City in 1995. She travels extensively and lives her dreams.
CLIENT LIST:
Citibank, The Integral Institute, Budweiser, Woodloch Resort, New York Energy.com, UTNE Reader, Shared Vision Magazine, Information Week, Silicon Alley Reporter, Digital Coast Reporter, NY Spirit Magazine, Turtle Rive Press, Yatra Publications, Conscious Choice Magazine, Harper Collins, St. Martins Books, Darwin Magazine, The Sound of Film (Knitting Factory), CMJ Music Magazine, Minnesota Medical Magazine, Herbal Creations Teas, UW Stout, The Center for Disease Control, City Gourmet, Smith & Butler, The Bean Runner and Wired Magazine (to name a few).
SELECTED AWARDS:
2007 Integral Institute, featured artist
2006 'Very Cool' design, www.webpicks.com
2004 Art in Public Places Grant, Jacksonville, FL
2001 MTV showcased artist, Times Square, NYC
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Tori Amos (singer/songwriter)
Neil Gaiman (NY Times Best-selling author)
Chris Claremont (writer, X-men)
Brentwood Library, Art in Public Places
Wagner University, Biology Dept.
UW Stout Permanent Collection
EXHIBITIONS:
1994 'Best of Design'
UW Stout, Menomonie, WI
paintings, group show
1995 'Black & White Lies'
UW Stout Library, WI
solo photography exhibit
1995 'Conundrum'
Furlong Gallery, Menomonie, WI
senior painting show
1996 'What I Thought I Saw'
Four Color Images, SoHo, NYC
solo photography exhibit, book release
1997 'The End'
Rene's Gallery (IMTBA), Wooster St., SoHo, NYC
assemblages, group show
1997 'Comic Book Expo'
PS 11, West Village, NYC
photography exhibit and book signing
1998 ‘Assemblages’
Webster Hall, NYC
Curated by Johnathan Levine
1998 'Pop Tartz'
57th St. Gallery, NYC
paintings, video installation
1999 'Deconstruction - Reconstruction'
CBGB's 313 Gallery, NYC
paintings, group show
1999 'Spool'
Knitting Factory Alterknit, NYC
paintings, two person show
2000 'The Room'
Aperion, 127 W 21st St, NYC
assemblage/paintings, group show
2000 'The Body Electric'
Walt Whitman Birthplace, Long Island, NY
paintings, solo show & workshop
2001 'Freedom'
MTV Featured Artist, Times Square Gallery, NYC
paintings & assemblages, solo show
2001 'This Time: Dream Time'
Wynne Bone Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
paintings, group show
2002 'Dreamers of Decadance'
Butterfield Garage, St. Augustine, FL
paintings, featured artist
2003 'Big Cats'
Fairfax Gallery, Jacksonville, Fl
paintings, 15' mural exterior installation
2003 'Private Invitational'
Lee Harvey Gallery, Jacksonville, Fl
paintings, group show
2004 'Pop Deities'
N. Florida Artist Cooperation, Jacksonville, FL
paintings & assemblages, solo show
2004 'Heaven'
Karpeles Museum, Jacksonville, FL
paintings, two person show
2005 'The Learning Tree'
Brentwood Library, Jacksonville, Fl
Public Art Project, Grant for 17' Mural
2005 'Images of Enlightenment - India/France'
Grace Teshima Gallery, Montmartre, Paris
paintings, solo show of recent paintings
2006 'Cookie Cutter Club'
Dactyl Gallery, Grand St., NYC
paintings, solo show w/ performance
2006 'Enchantment- art for children's bedrooms'
Jade Nectar East, South Hampton, NY
paintings, group show
2006 'Francia - NY'
Pierre's, Bridgehampton, NY
paintings & assemblages, solo show
2006 'New Beginnings'
One Ocean Yoga Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
paintings, solo show of large scale works
2007 'Until the End of Time'
Large scale commission mural project
Neil Gaiman - private residence
2007 Ongoing Window Display
Untitled, 8th St/5th Ave, NYC
solo show, window display
2007 'Beyond Boundries'
Crossings Gallery, Zumbrota, MN
paintings, two person show
2007 'Joy and Happiness'
Fourth Street Gallery, Cannon Falls, MN
paintings & assemblages, solo show
2007 'Images of Enlightenment'
Ken Wilber's Integral Institute, on-line gallery
paintings, featured artist
2007 HOWL! FESTIVAL -
6' x 7' painting installation
Tompkins Square Park, NYC
2008 'Duck-Duck-Black-Duck'
Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls, MN
2008 "Pop Deites"
Live painting and solo Exhibition
Seed Gallery, Newark, NJ
2008 Live Painting
COSM - Chelsea, NYC
2009 ‘Botanicals’
solo exhibition
BRC Gallery, Peekskill, NY
2009 ‘Living in Light’
solo exhibition
Salir a la Luz, Minneapolis, MN
“My pieces of Kelli Bickman art are my pride and joy. If I were rich enough, and had a house large enough, I would have nothing but Kelli Bickman art.”
Neil Gaiman
"With great energy and flair, Bickman invites us to soar beyond the mundane to find inspiration in both the ordinary and extraordinary experiences that make up our lives. Her work is "larger than life" and she proves, once again, that art can illuminate the recesses of the human soul with both joy and beauty."
Ann Niven
Sage Woman Magazine
"Gods tend to be larger than life - and the Gods and Goddesses of artist Kelli Bickman's series, 'Pop Deities' are no exception. In vivid color, Bickman's spirituality is reflected in her work, which draws on religious figures from Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Native-American philosophy."
Dolly Penland
Folio Weekly
“Bickman dares to mix -- color, theme, mythology -- and she does so with respect and humor at the same time. A difficult feat...Kelli Bickman, a serious artist to be sure, proved to me that art produced from a sense of joy could lead to an artist's life -- you know, the kind we all dream of, where our art is our living and our living is our art. I think art such as Bickman's is actually the most "serious" of all in that it expresses something joyful and ecstatic about being human. I think, too, that art like this can only come from a certain kind of soul -- a happy, broad-minded, and delighted-with-life soul."
"Kelli Bickman's work taps into and reflects the aesthetic of the scavenger in all of us. That part of us that makes us draw mustaches on newspaper photos and tack photos to our cubicles. More than that, Kelli's pieces draw on a level of recognition beyond the automatic or mundane and illicit thoughts of grand American mythologies that have surpassed verbal dissemination.”
Dave Bias
Knitting Factory, NYC
“What I love best , I think, about Kelli's work that one can dream in it. You can look at her paintings forever, and never see all there is. You can get lost in them and not care, really, if you come back out or not. Every painting is a story, and she is a storyteller, like the storytellers who once sat around the fires at night, and explained what the moon was and most importantly, why it was. She will wrap you in her work and you will be happy.”
links:
http://www.lorraineamalena.blogspot.com/
http://furrytiger.blogspot.com/
http://www.jqadams.com/gallery/bickman.html
Painting in Castleneau Magnoic, South France. 2006.
Photo Jennifer Bickman
Working on the drawing for Neil’s mural project. December 2005.
Photo Jennifer Bickman
“Finding Bliss” in her West Village studio, NYC 2007. Photo Jennifer Bickman
Working on “Vajrayogini” in the West Village. 2005. Photo Connie Bickman
Kelli at the HOWL! Festival - Aug.2007
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