Alexandra Pignon
MORTAIN-BOCAGE, Normandy, France
French-born American in 1968. My personality is slightly out of sync with the world and early on I ...
About the artist
Alexandra Pignon
Joined In 2019
(7 Followers)
About the artist
Alexandra Pignon
Joined In 2019
(7 Followers)
ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
French-born American in 1968.
My personality is slightly out of sync with the world and early on I felt my difference.
To eventually change jobs, I joined an art school, the Académie Malouine d’Arts Plastiques in Saint-Malo. From 1998 to 2004 I studied with Eric BRAULT, Denise MASSON, Isabelle DUBRUL and Jean-Claude CRANCE.
In 2006, I began to expose my painting and my pictures.
In 2008, I moved to Pacific Grove, California. I attended the fine-art photographers group of Cole Weston, ImageMakers of Monterey. I applied with success to the Pacific Grove Art Center annual show and was assigned the largest room at the Center to exhibit. Unfortunately, I had to cancel because I needed to find immediate income. I obtained a position in Hawaii in the land surveying department of an international civil engineering company.
Finally, after 20 years in civil engineering, I decided to end my land surveyor career to pursue my work as a full-time visual artist (mainly painting and photography).
In 2010, I started to take pictures intensively and to develop my Free_Lens Project. I attended drawing classes at the University of Hawaii and Community Colleges in Honolulu and I modeled.
But a long self-diagnosis which had begun in 2...
2010 - Life Drawing courses at the University of Hawaii and Community Colleges
in Honolulu
1998 to 2004 - Académie Malouine d'Arts Plastiques
Color / Drawing / Oil / Watercolor / Atelier Libre
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
NORMANDY:
2019 FORUM DU MORTAINAIS (Mortain)
USA:
2010 INTERNATIONAL MID-PAC COLLEGE (Honolulu - HI)
BRITTANY:
2018 ASTELLIA HQ (Saint-Jacques-De-La-Lande)
2007 CASINO BARRIERE (Saint-Malo)
2006 CITY HALL (Saint-Briac-Sur-Mer)
2006 CITY HALL (Saint-Coulomb)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
USA:
2008 ATELIER L. GAYLORD (Pacific Grove - CA)
BRITTANY:
2007 CHAPELLE SAINT SAUVEUR (Saint-Malo)
2007 SOLIDOR EN PEINTURE (Saint-Malo)
2007 4th MONTH OF THE PHOTO (Mont-Dol)
2006 CHAPELLE SAINT SAUVEUR (Saint-Malo)
2006 FORT DE ST PERE – CARTOUCHERIES (Saint-Père-Marc-En-Poulet)
2006 3rd MONTH OF THE PHOTO (Mont-Dol)
2006 BOZ’ART 6th (Saint-Briac-Sur-Mer)
1998 to 2004 ANNUAL STUDENT SHOW (Saint-Malo)