Class of 1969: Francesca (Francoise) Perrin
« Naissance à Alger en 1950, origines italienne et bretonne. Formation danse classique, London's Royal Academy…..New York City, Lycée français, cours de dessin par correspondance. Danse jazz, Broadway's Phil Black's Studio. Organisation et présentation de défilés dans une agence de mannequins. Nancy Taylor's Business School……Collaboratrice de l'écrivaine Danielle Steel, San Francisco……Travail de portraitiste. Participe aux manifestations culturelles et festives étudiantes à l'école d'architecture de Luminy (Marseille) : ateliers peinture-dessin-expression corporelle-percussions…...Création Association "Découvertes" (danse, dessin, peinture) Noirmoutier......Suis des cours et stages d'explorations en peinture et dessin pour artistes professionnels aux Beaux-Arts de Lorient. Expositions : Palais des Arts, Vannes (attribution du premier prix peinture aquarelle), Galerie "Art et Lumières" (Vannes), Restaurant "La Nappe Monde", Crédit Agricole, Librairie "Paroles et Musique" à Vannes, La Chapelle de Tréauray (Morbihan), La Chapelle des Arts (Noirmoutier), Revue "3éme Millénaire", Dictionnaire encyclopédique international d'art moderne et contemporain d'Italie. Tableaux estimés par Alexandro Malmo, critique d'art »
 
'Une Danse' (Encres, matières sur toile couleur lin) 'Golfe du Morbihan'
(Encres, aquarelles, matières sur toile)
  'Ishtar' (Sur carton fort tissé, matières 'Floraison' (Acrylique, matières, encres sur toile)
et pastel sec)
Class of 1969: Michel Alix
The artist: "My contribution to art involves the notion of 'repainting.' (Why paint fresh when you can repaint?) Repainting deconstructs images -- offering an ironic view that obtains surprising effects and strange spectator reactions. At first, I hodge-podged image transfers and painted them. Recently, I began restructuring and painting 'abstract-representational' multiple impressions. At other times, I attempt to get into the skin of a painter and create a 'sequel' or 'remake' of his work (pastiches in French). For example, I painted the underside of the Demoiselles d'Avignon. I also envision a sequel of the Raft of the Medusa (La Remise en Mer). All this, of course, remains positively insane, but whoever said we preach to the sane?...... In recent months I have been recruiting hitherto unknown artists to produce collective works. This free-formed studio is called 'Collectif d'art spontané' and operates under the aegis of Xposart, an association (I) founded to expose new artists in new and unusual venues. ('Outing art, as it rightfully should be outed,' I blusteringly say.)"
  'Repainting' 'Repainting'   'Painted Marilyn' Two group paintings --'Michel's Imprint'
Class of 1970: Gilgian Gelzer
 L'artiste: "Dans ma peinture, je sens confusément que l'image est là comme une image flottante.
Pourquoi ne pas l'accepter? D'autant plus que je suis très intéressé par la peinture figurative.
Quelque chose me retient. Je ne me sens pas capable d'installer un objet, une personne ou une
photographie pour les peindre. Je ne sais pas choisir ce genre de sujet et quand je peins je n'ai
pas d'autre projet que la peinture. Si on croit voir des images dans mes toiles, ce sont des images
«hors lexique» qui viennent de l'acte même de peindre."
Review: "L’œuvre de Gilgian Gelzer est d’une intrigante complexité. Elle conjugue des photos, des
dessins et des peintures de tous formats. Lesquelles œuvres ne sont en rien figuratives pour autant,
bien qu’elles puissent reprendre des formes ou des désequilibres découverts dans des photos d’arbres,
de neige ou d’eau. Gelzer développe ses compositions comme un jazzman improvise à partir d’un motif,
le tournant et le retournant, y découvrant des possibilités inattendues. A la mine de plomb, il trace
des diagrammes organiques ou architecturaux, rehaussés de stries parallèles ou percés de vides ovales.
Sur la toile, il privilégie la frontalité, les découpages nets et les couleurs qui s’opposent intensément.
Le regard est surpris et arrêté par ces expériences audacieuses, exemplaires du devenir actuel de
l’abstraction." (Galerie Bernard Jordan)
(For a video of Gilgian's works dans les espaces de la galerie rue Montgrand, click: HERE)
(Entretien avec Gilgian Gelzer, une vidéo, click: HERE)
(For more works by Gilgian Gelzer, click: HERE)  
Catalogue Gilgian Gelzer (Textes:Olivier Sans titre (2002, arylique sur toile) Kaeppelin, Beate Reifenscheid, Eric Suchère,
Jean-Charles Vergne)
  Untitled (2003, graphite and color pencil on Untitled (2006, graphite on paper, 12.6" x 9.4")
paper, 78.8" x 59.1")
Class of 1974: Nadia Kondratiev
 "Nadia Kondratiev was born in New York City of a French mother and a Russian father. She studied Illustration,
Life Drawing and Composition at the Art Students' League of New York under Steven Kidd. She also has an MBA
from Herriot Watt University, an attempt at legitimization. She is now working on a book about Manila and the Philippines,
where she resides. Having done the illustrations, she is now working on the text – a work in reverse. Here are some
examples of what is to come."
 
'Aussie and Maid' 'Red Turban'
 
'True Love' 'Pearl Shopping'
Class of 1981: Baret Boisson
 “……Born in Florence, Italy to parents who were both artists, Boisson did not begin painting
until she was in her early thirties. Completely self-taught and eschewing the limitations of
mechanical and technical formalities, she utilizes a wide range of mediums for her canvases
including board, wood, ceramic, and paper. Boisson employs acrylic, watercolors, and gouache
for most of her creations, and chooses to paint on flat surfaces, such as a table or floor, in order
to further venerate content over technique…….What emerge in Boisson's works are vivid images
that convey a sense of truthful vitality. One is drawn to the vibrant color, intelligent humor, and
marked whimsicality that characterizes her paintings. There is a profound resonance within the
context of playful familiarity that coaxes a deep connection between viewer and viewed. Iconography
becomes obtuse; words become quixotic. There is laughter, there is provocation, there is history,
and most importantly, there is disclosure……Boisson's work has been featured on the Sundance Channel,
is sold as note cards in fine stationary boutiques across the country, and hangs in many homes of
the Hollywood and Corporate elite. Her past projects include quilt designs for the Judi Boisson American
Home Collection, cover art for the "Meditation" CD series featured in "W" and "Self" magazines, and
private commissions for clients all over the world.” (Click here for more works by Baret Boisson)
  'Fats Waller' (Vase) 'Lucky in Green'
  'Rosa Parks' Ceramics
Class of 1982: Caroline Danois-Maricq
 "D’origine vietnamienne, adoptée par des parents belges, le parcours de Caroline Danois
l’a menée en Thaïlande où elle a étudié l’art traditionnel à l’université des Beaux Arts
(Silpakorn University). Puis, elle continuera à découvrir d’autres pays et continents. Ses
œuvres sur toile, sur bois, ou sur papier froissé, n’ont ni cassure, ni angle, ni violence.
D’autre part, elle utilise des couleurs qui réveillent, illuminent et dénudent des parties de
corps, le tout dans une dynamique chorégraphique. Une osmose d’influences vietnamienne,
flamande et japonaise capte ses personnages en « arrêt sur images », en contre-plongée
ou inversement, comme par delà « un toit envolé ». L’enroulement tendre et sensuel des
couples, la complicité aux jeux des enfants, la dévotion et le silence des regards de Bouddha
ou de ses moines sont ses thèmes privilégiés. Les titres de ses tableaux, en français et en
anglais, ont autant d’importance que le sujet peint : la poupée dans la tour, cash, pluie de
nuages, le vieux fou, pour en citer quelques uns." (Click here for more works by Caroline Danois)
 
'Damoiseau' 'Theatre d'Enfants'
(peinture à l'huile sur toile, 60 X 70cm) (peinture à l'huile sur toile, 60 X 90cm)
  'Jeux de Mains' 'Jeu de Billes' (peinture à l'huile
sur panneau de bois, 80 X 100cm)
Class of 1982: Ilaria Camerini
 "Born in Milan, Italy in 1963. Grows up in Milan and leaves at 13 for Montreal, Canada. Then, she will move to
New York, N.Y. Usa to finish her studies at Lycee Francais de New York and graduates with Baccalaureat
with mention in literature and languages. She will pursue a "Bachelor of Fine Arts" in Film and Tv at New York
University TSOA and will start to work almost immediately in film/tv production in New York , NY-Usa, Montreal,
Canada, Rome and Milan, Italy...... Her love for traveling and discovering new cultures, her capacity of adaptation
make her start drawing with dry pastel in order to express her feelings (rage, love, fear, happiness). Her work is
mainly abstract, very colorful and refreshing. When she draws her inner soul comes out on the white paper without
any preconceived idea; it is like a music flow coming from the heart and making its shape with multiple colours.
She cannot think in black, white or gray her life has to be full of colours." (Click here for more works by Ilaria Camerini)
  'Canneto Tre' (2004, acrylic on 'Papacactus' (2004)
canvas, 12 x 24 inch)
  'Semini' (1997, dry pastel on paper, 12.8"x18.7") 'Flying Onions' (2000, dry pastel
on paper, 80 x 120 cm)
 "Montebello, né en Provence à l'age de 17 ans, est un peintre européen, à dominante française. L'exposition
Jackson Pollock de Beaubourg en 1982 lui révèle la peinture. La découverte de Séville l'année suivante, puis
de Venise en novembre 1991, sont d'autres jalons décisifs de son parcours. Actuellement il vit et travaille à
Paris, et poursuit par la peinture sa quête d'une certaine liberté."
  'Corrida-Castella' (2007, oil on panel, 30x30cm) 'Venice-Dogana' (2000, oil on panel, 30x42cm)
 ' 'Venice -San Marco' (1997, oil on canvas, 50x50cm)
 'Spain -Alhambra' (1997, oil on panel, 30x52cm) Class of 1987: Jesse Littell
 "He commands a highly original style which reflects a breadth of personal background and creative influence
unusual among contemporary painters. His oil paintings focus on conventional subjects such as the human face
and figure and interiors, but handled in a technique unique to the artist. Densely filled with detail and richly colored,
his canvases draw the eye through complex compositions that suggest even more than they explicitly depict, fusing
the artist's wide aesthetic exposure in Europe and the United States with a distinctively personal sensibility...."
(Artis Spectrum Magazine) (Click here for more works by Jesse Littell)   'Limbo' (2005, oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm) 'Dumb' (1998, oil on canvas, 61 x 61cm)
  'Marseille Market' 'Circus' (1999, oil on canvas, 110 x 100cm)
(2006, oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm)
Class of 1987
  “Born in Madrid in 1969 of a Dutch mother and a French father, I started my artistic career as soon as I could
hold a pencil, filling up pages of scribbles with now old-fashioned red and blue pencils. I drew birds, bees,
suns and houses, then also cows, chickens and trees. Leaving kindergarten was also parting with drawing ;
I had to learn that two plus two always makes four. The school years went by in different countries, as my
father’s job drove us often to live outside of France. It is in New York that I passed the French graduation
(baccalaureat) and began to draw again. Half in the States, half in France, I pushed my artistic studies for
another five years. After working in a copper engraving workshop in Paris, I turned to more colorful techniques,
among them watercolor, which has become my favorite way of artistic expression. If my production was slowed
down for the last years, the time to build up a family (my three children are still young), I am now, to my great joy,
able to spend hours again in my small workshop. I now live in the landscape of Isère in France, surrounded by the
animals I used to draw long ago, and if I give now the prime to the expression of my emotions, birds, trees and
other bees still participate to the accomplishment of my art."
  'Autumn' (2004, watercolors and ink, 50 x 70) 'Woman with Hat' (2007, acrylics on canvas, 81 x 116)
 'Flat self-portrait' (2005, watercolors and ink, 35 x 10)
 an exhibition on books, 2006, Town of Rives, Isère, France)
Class of 1994: Pauline Fraisse
 "Pour une brève présentation, je dirais que, née en 1977 en France, je me suis formée en voyageant,
en parcourant les musées et les rues, en étudiant la littérature, en peignant, en rêvant, en observant,
en dansant, en travaillant dans la communication, en tentant diverses expériences dès que cela était
possible, et que je vis à présent entre le Yunnan, en Chine, et Paris…"
 
'Grand nu de dos' 'Bocage"   Laos: 'Luang Prabang Colonial' 'Cloisonnement'
Class of 1995: Gwenaëlle Gobé
 "Gwenaëlle believes a story / concept is experienced through its emotion. The idea dictates the mode
of expression: the moving image, print, and other mediums are only most effective when collaborating
  'Charles VI' ' 'Once Upon A Time' (silkscreen on fine paper, 2005)
(Ink and crayons on paper, 2005)  
'Let Peace Prevail' (2007) 'War and discord' (Ink and crayons, 2005)
Class of 2001: Victor de Matha  "Victor is a freelance illustrator. He lives in New York. He received his BFA in Illustration from the School of
Visual Arts. He has done illustrations for magazines and advertising. He has developed a style based on
comics, pop culture and science fiction books and movies."
  'Cowboy and Alien' (2008, ink + photoshop) 'Desert Man' (2005, ink + photoshop)
  'Queens of the Stone Age' (2007, ink + photoshop) 'SilverSun Pickups' (2006, ink + photoshop)
Et pour finir: Budding Artists of Future Classes
 Jardin Galerie, a children’s art gallery, showcases “children’s art in a local school Physical Gallery and a global Virtual Gallery at http://www.jardingalerie.org/ournetwork.html. Four times a year we hold exhibits in our Virtual Gallery and in our Physical Gallery in New York City. These shows feature children from local schools and arts organizations with input from children all over the world working on the same theme.........Our very first such show was with the Lycee Francais de New York on March 26 2000." These are samples of artwork contributed by children of the LFNY at four such shows.
 
Shown at Exhibit #8 (theme was 'Seasons) Group artwork, shown at Exhibit #12 (theme was
(June 5, 2003) 'Seasons') (4/22/2004)
  Shown at Exhibit #18 (theme was 'Day Skies / By Julia, shown at Exhibit #2 (theme was 'My Family')
Night Skies') (April 2005) (February 14, 2002) |
