Brigitte Bruggemann
Brigitte Bruggeman canvases make reference to places in nature; a forest, a garden, a tree, evoking a keen awareness of cyclical growth and decay, spontaneity and restraint, to make visible the invisible.
With gestural brushwork, drawing into fields of vibrant color, the artist pulls the viewer into rich, lush surfaces, dynamic lyrical organic forms. Her movement and marks on the canvas suggest that of a branch moving in the wind, or the river flowing by her house in New Mexico, in joyful celebration of life.
Passages of pure painting, impasto or glazes, offer themselves as touchstones for another reality – glimpses of “What is behind it All”
EDUCATION:
1988 MFA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1986 BFA honors, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
EXHIBITIONS:
2018 “Introducing,” group exhibition, Winterowd Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe Convention Center, Santa Fe, NM
2014-2015 Brigitte Brüggemann Studio & Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Artist in Residence, Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany, Italy (Art & Poetry)
2013 – 2015 Nikko Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2013 – 2014 Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2011 Mill Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2009 – 2011 LaKind Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2006 – 2008 Waxlander Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2004 – 2006 Carlisle Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2000 – 2003 Brüggemann Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Jules Place, Boston MA
Maclaren Markowitz, Boulder, CO
Sandra Wirth Studio Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1997 – 2000 Sandy Carson Fine Art, Denver, CO
1996 Khadoure Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Ryoko Suzuki, Tokyo, Japan
Lutz Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
1997 -2000 Sandy Carson Fine Art, Denver, CO.
1996 Khadoure Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
“Images of Spring” Maclaren Markowitz, Boulder, CO.
Ryoko Suzuki, Tokyo, Japan
“New Watercolors from India” Lutz Galerie Stuttgart, Germany.
1995 Maclaren Markowitz, Boulder, CO.
Ryoko Suzuki, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Sandy Carson, Denver, CO.
“Old Spirit – New Place” Arrott Gallery, Las Vegas, NM.
New Mexico Highlands University.
University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, NM.
“Bali-Bali” Adams State College, Alamosa, CO.
1993 Regional Standard Arts Project, Santa Fe, NM.
1992 Harris Gallery, Houston, TX.
Mill Street Gallery, Aspen, CO.
Gallery 44, Boulder, CO.
Rule Modern and Contemporary, Denver, CO.
1991 “New Faculty” Arrot Gallery, Las Vegas, NM.
New Mexico Highlands University.
Gallery 44 Boulder, CO.
1990 Atelierhaus Pichler, Augsburg, Germany.
Conlon Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
Galerie Winkler, Hamburg, Germany
Gallery 44, Boulder, CO.
Auraria Library Gallery, University of Colorado, Denver, CO.
Arnesan Fine Arts, Vail, CO.
“Colorado State of the Art” Juried by Lucy Lippard, Bruce Guenther, Richard Koshalek,.Traveling to: Colorado Springs, Denver, Arvada Center for the
Arts and Aspen Art Museum.
“New Names New Works” Santa Fe East, Santa Fe, NM. Juried by Ruth Meyer of Taft Museum & Marjorie Talalay of Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art.
Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart, Germany.
1988 “Hours in the Garden” University Art Gallery, University of Colorado at Boulder.
1987 “All Boulder” Boulder Art Center, CO.
Corporate and Museum Collections Private Collections:
Museum of Art Albuquerque permanent collection
The Hallmark Collection
U.S. West, Denver, CO.
Texaco Collection The Larson Healing Institute.
Career Tracks, Boulder, CO.
CBS Headquarters, Dallas, TX.
American Management, Houston TX.
American Management, Denver, CO.
Sheryl Lee, Beverly Hills, CA.
Primavera Health Spa, Japan.
Inasawa Mental Health Clinic, Japan
The Larson Healing Institute.
Dawn Upshaw
Diane and Ken Williamson Iowa City Iowa
and many other collectors in the US, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Monaco, Japan, Puerto Rico, Fleur Just, Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany Italy