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Alicia

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About Me


Hi, my name is Alicia LaChance. I make paintings with fresco, oil,tar and varnishes. I was born in St. Louis and after the age of 18 grew up in other cities like Seattle, Paris and New York. I hung out with an eclectic mix of people always fortunate to find myself next to the real deal. After ample bumming around and studying I decided I wanted to be a maker of things. So I spent years working with designers from 7th avenue to independent labels to big time corporate putting together lines, fashion shows, shoots you name it. I live in my small hometown again with my babies. I love them so so much. I run a gallery here showing exceptional work-alcoholic type painters - I am a full time painter and show around the country in Boston, DC, Chicago, Seattle, California .....I love being around people that are universally good and have a tendency to want to show you something cool.
Chicago
"More Exuberance Please" solo exhibition
April 18th thru the end of May
Melanee Cooper Gallery
740 North Franklin
Chicago IL 60610
Seattle
Gallery Fraga - first friday in June
Museo - first saturday in June
Portland Oregon - TBA
Palo Alto California - TBA
Palm Springs California - TBA

My Interests

Words, painting, building up & tearing down & building up, feel good ideas for bad times, the seven deadly sins, nature, the nature of mothering, jack purcells, non sequiturs, fear,visual patterns, sunny patches, color, hubris, faded cotton, stamen & pistols, children as heroes, moving earth, watching, memory, free will, big cities, quiet people, personality quirks and deficits, history

I'd like to meet:

......Tokujin Yoshioka, Peter Plagens, Zach Feuer, Marcia Myers, Dave Eggers, Christoph Ruckhäberle,Richard Pryor, Tennessee Williams, Ayn Rand, Spalding Gray, Jack Lemmon, Gene Hackman,Julien Schnabel and his family, Gael García Bernal, Ruby Dee, Eva Hesse.....

Music:

lately I start all painting sessions with Miles Davis - (i think all bands should find room for a trumpet) - the only thing that seems to get the studio right is Kind of Blue....after that anything goes, Miho Hatori (cool song called Walking City) MWard-the Rolling Stones at night the country influenced stuff - a roll of the thumb on the ipod...

Movies:

often those staring Philip Seymour Hoffman

Television:

Oh Charlie

Books:

Those relating to Japanese prints, street art, Aubrey Beardsley, the Great World Atlas, Dictionaries of all sorts, books on flora and fauna, books on textiles, minimalist houses, landscape artchitecture, full range of magazines, painters and more painters.....Don Delilo*

Heroes:

earthworms

My Blog

Babooshka

Day one with baby Mike and I strolled her in the vintage english pram along Broadway. It was March. Crystalline sky - our zeitgeist spring in the Emerald City. The shyest of flowers chose to bloom. Th...
Posted by Alicia on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:27:00 PST

2 new things tripped upon in chicago

these places seem good enough to pass along -i was up in Chicago last week - i always stop in the Star of Siam on 11 E. Illinois - it's the best basic Thia food I have found since living on the west ...
Posted by Alicia on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:17:00 PST

I keep thinking of this painters work.....

It was such a long winter.......spent many hours reading and looking up painters....one bright spot was finding Kim Dorland. I saw one of her paintings in Miami and that she had a show at the Howard H...
Posted by Alicia on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:21:00 PST

David Buckingham April 26 in LA

The grand opening of the Los Angeles gallery, the long awaited, much anticipated Peter Mendenhall Gallery at 6150 Wilshire in the fabulous Miracle Mile, takes place this Saturday, April 26, 6 to 8PM. ...
Posted by Alicia on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:48:00 PST

Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco Formed to Honor George W. Bush

George W. Bush Sewage PlantSFist ^ | 3.31.08 Posted on April 7, 2008 5:08:16 AM CDT by Dr. MartenPresidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco Formed to Honor George W. BushLooking to honor the fo...
Posted by Alicia on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:11:00 PST

say what

BERLIN (AFP) - A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalc...
Posted by Alicia on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:45:00 PST

jokers wild

Holy Moses I am fully exhausted....well not fully still have enough to drive these paintings up to Chicago tonight - shit I'm freaking out and think I recreated the set of the jokers wild - i'm not s...
Posted by Alicia on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:00:00 PST

HLContemporary Opening 4/4/08 opening friday 6pm-10pm

WHO: Michael Wille, Andy Messerschmidt, Tom Vance, Jeffrey JonesWHAT: TRACT (main gallery) INDELIBLE (gallery annex)WHEN: April 4- May 3, 2008OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 4th 6pm - 10pmWHERE: HL C...
Posted by Alicia on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:31:00 PST

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oh man messin around too much with the myspace - yesterday my neighbor, an older gentleman who is studying theology in his later years with his wife at the seminary, came to my door with a giant thing...
Posted by Alicia on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:51:00 PST

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Sometimes we have a hard time getting up and out the door around here. The remedy -at the start of the year I bought a Bose alarm clock radio - so at 6:30 we could engage our heads in NPR loud and cle...
Posted by Alicia on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:06:00 PST