About the Artist

Lately, I have been working from gardens and verdant landscapes. This obsession began five years ago during the pandemic when, with all of the normal markers of time (academic calendars, gatherings, schedules) suddenly obsolete, the changing flora and fauna in my neighborhood became my method of marking the passage of time. I generally work from a collection of small sketches and photographs which I take on walks or drives, then take back to my studio to turn into larger and more detailed paintings. I use my reference images as launchpads into a scene which might become something else entirely in my paintings. Although I occasionally do field studies in acrylic and watercolor, I prefer oil paints for my larger, in-studio work. There is an intoxicating lusciousness to oil paint that I have not been able to recreate with any other medium.

BIO

Bailliere holds an MFA in visual art from Mills College, a BA cum laude in French from Duke University with extensive coursework in visual art and art history, and a post-bac in visual art and design from UC Berkeley. While on a Duke junior year abroad in Paris, she studied art history at the Université de Paris and painting at the Académie de Port-Royal. Bailliere spent a high school semester at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Lacoste, France where she focused solely on drawing and painting. As an elementary school student, she attended Saturday high school figure drawing classes at the Maryland Institute College of Art in her hometown of Baltimore.

In addition to sustaining an active studio practice, Bailliere is an adjunct professor of art at both Contra Costa College and at Los Medanos College where she teaches drawing and painting.

Bailliere's work has been presented at the San Francisco Art Fair, Art Miami, the Mills College Art Museum, the Worth Ryder Gallery at UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Art Center, among other venues. Bailliere was a recipient of Jill Miller's (UCBerkeley professor of art practice) Being Human artist residency at the Palo Alto Art Center in 2018, and in 2016, she was a finalist for a residency fellowship at the Headlands Center of the Arts. Her work is included in many private collections and the following corporate collections:

Brown Advisory
Chicken and Egg Pictures
Citizens Bank
El Camino Health of Mountainview
Freshfields Law Offices of San Francisco
Green17 Design
Mayo Clinic (Integrated Oncology Building, Jacksonville, Florida)
among others.

Bailliere's work is represented by Hang Art in San Francisco. Please direct inquiries to info@hangart.com.


All artwork ©Alexandra Bailliere, artwork photographed
by Dana Davis.
Portrait photo credit to Anne Sherwood.