The Artist

Painting has been a constant thread in the life of Alexandra Bailliere Treadwell. Alexandra started private art lessons at age 9 in Baltimore, Maryland, where she grew up. By the age of 10, she was enrolled in Saturday morning life drawing classes for high school students at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Alexandra continued her study of painting and drawing through high school and into college at Duke University, where she studied with Vernon Pratt, the Dean of the Fine Arts Department. Alexandra received a BA cum laude in French language and literature in 1992 from Duke University, where she was also the 1992 recipient of the Robert J. Niess prize, a prize awarded annually to the outstanding scholar in the Department of Foreign Languages. While at Duke, she completed extensive coursework in art and art history, both on campus in Durham, North Carolina, and abroad on a year of study in Paris.

Alexandra's art studies also include a semester with the Savannah College of Art and Design study abroad program in Lacoste, France, studio classes at the Académie de Port-Royal in Paris, and coursework at the Corcoran College of Art+Design in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Art Institute and the California College of Art.

Alexandra paints and teaches adult painting classes at her studio in Sausalito, and she lives in Mill Valley with her husband and three sons. Alexandra exhibits her work locally, and her paintings are well represented in numerous private collections.

Artist Statement

Using barcodes, or universal product codes, as a point of departure, I created a body of work which examines language. Barcodes are a language developed to identify one product from another. This language is spoken by electronic scanners. What else can be interpreted through a series of vertical lines? Arranged in a certain format, and with punctuation, the lines may become sentences filled with meaning.

In this work, I also explored the repurposing of everyday kitchen objects to create another form of language. What messages are hidden in shredded eggshells? What stories lie in rolled balls of flour, salt and water? Will we ever know what is contained in the imprint of recorded cassette tape?

— Alexandra Bailliere Treadwell
— December, 2011

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b 1969 Baltimore, Maryland

2011 Industrial Center Building Open Studios
2011 "Asia Observed" Marin Arts Council juried show
"A Year in Japan, Snapshots in Pen and Ink," Consulate General of Japan solo show
Elsewhere Gallery, group show
2010 Finn Boutique solo show
Gelateria Cici solo show
2009 Duke University Fannie Mitchell Career Conference, group show participant and art panelist
2008 Studio 333, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito group show
2006 Dagaz Salon, 21 Madrona Street, Mill Valley, solo show
Marin Civic Center, Marin Arts Council group show
Marin Arts Council spring show
Marin Open Studios
2005 Artisans Art Gallery, multiple group shows
2004 C-Ports Cafe, Oakland, California, Berkeley Art Department group show
2001 Oakdale Painting Studios, San Francisco, group show

BA cum laude, French, Duke University 1992
Foreign language award recipient
Post-bac candidate, UC Berkeley Extension Art and Design, expected graduation fall 2012