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Alicia Escott
Alicia Bainbridge Escott (she/ they) is an American modern artist. Born to an eastern-European father and a western European mother, Escott was raised in Massachusetts and later attended undergraduate schooling at School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA from California College of the Art s. In pursuing her art and teaching career, Escott has spent the past twenty years in San Francisco, California.

Biography
Her work spans a range of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and is characterized by its deeply personal and introspective nature. Escott often explores themes of memory, trauma, and the passage of time, creating art that is both visually striking and emotionally evocative. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States and has been featured in numerous publications. Through her art, Alicia Escott invites viewers to confront their own experiences and emotions and to engage with the complex and often challenging realities of the human condition.

(2003-Present)
Alicia Escott’s works hold a focus on both the environment around us and those affected by it. With overlapping themes of climate change, mass extinction, environmental degradation, what it is to be alive, and awareness of environmental issues, Escott’s works embody the abstract fact that nothing lasts forever. Escott creates art not only for human being viewers but nonhuman audiences as well. Her mediums ranging from recyclable plastics to installations, videos, and sculptures.

Influences
With Escott's main influence being the environment around us, her works hold great philosophical influences from philosophers such as Albert Camus and Karl Marx.

Works

 * Disarticulated Production, 2021
 * Everything Alive Here is Dead, 2020
 * Now the Totality Hits Us First, 2019
 * Trying to Put it All Back Together Again, 2019
 * Metabolic Rifts and Domestic Interiors, 2017
 * Another Brief History of the Sunset, 2017
 * 100 days Action, 2017
 * How to Talk to A Snowy Plover and Keep Your Clothing On, 2017
 * Part of a Brief History of the Sunset; Xerces Blue 2017
 * And the Crowd Had Rushed Together, Trying to Keep Warm, 2013
 * Littered drawings, 2013
 * Letters Sent Sometime After The Continents Separated, 2012
 * Life-Sized Drawn Surrogates, 2009
 * In the Spring of 2011, 2011
 * Biodegradable drawings and Archive Drawings of Biodegradable drawings, 2009
 * Exercises in erasure, 2009
 * Drawings to be recycled where facilities exist, 2008

Featured

 * MOMUS
 * VICE
 * Huffington Post
 * The Chronicle
 * In The Make
 * The Examiner
 * Ecosalon
 * Argot + Orcher
 * Curbs + Stoops
 * TechCrunch
 * KQED
 * Trash to Treasure
 * Shotgun Reviews
 * Sustainable Sushi
 * Boxvox
 * SF Gate

Commentaries on Escott

 * Founded the Bureau of Linguistic Reality with Heidi Quante, conjuring up new vocabulary words to define the distressing and overwhelming feelings associated with climate change.
 * "Bureau finds new words to describe precarious world"; The San Francisco Chronicle; May 10, 2018
 * "Coming to Terms with a Life Without Water"; The New Yorker, May 3, 2018
 * "At a Loss for Words?"; The Economist, June 19th, 2018
 * "This Art Project Coins new Terms for Our Modern-Day Anxieties and Hopes"; KQED, August 13,2018
 * "Invasiveness and Indigeneity: Alicia Escott's Complicit Critique" Alicia Escott's Complicit Critique; MOMUS, May 19, 2017
 * "Alicia Escott's Dystopian Vision"; SF Gate, February 6, 2013

Nominations

 * (Finalist) AIR Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2017 (Semi Finalist 5x)
 * (Finalist) Social Practice AIR Yerba Buena Center for the Arts & Art Practical, 2016
 * (Finalist) COAL Prize, Paris, France, 2016
 * (Finalist) San Francisco Artist Award Nominee and finalist, Wendy Norris Gallery 2013
 * (Finalist) Pro Arts 2x2 Solo’s nominee, 2012 and finalist, Bay Area Currents Finalist, 2010
 * (Nominee) SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Awards

 * 2020 SeeChange, San Mateo office of Sustainability Grant, Sea Level rise and managed retreat, 2019/2020
 * San Francisco Arts Commission, Artist Relief Grant COVID 19, 2020
 * Rainin Foundation Open Spaces, 5K funded finalist for unfunded 100K grant, (100 Days Action, 2019
 * 2017 YBCA 100 List (100 Days Action Collective), yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2017
 * Alternative Exposure 11 Grant, (100 Days Action Collective), Southern Exposure, 2017
 * Awesome Foundation Grant Award (Another Brief History of the Sunset), 2017
 * Seeding Possibilities Follow up Grant (ITP), (The Bureau of Linguistical Reality)
 * Kindle Makers Muse Award (The Bureau of Linguistical Reality), 2016
 * Invoking the Pause Grantee (The Bureau of Linguistical Reality), 2015/16
 * Peaceable Kingdom Best in Show, 2013 (juried by Stephanie Cannizzo, of the Berkeley Art Museum and Cathy Kimball, of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.)
 * Smart Art International competition winner, 2009 (Juried by Betti-Sue Hertz, Deborah Munk and John Zarobell)
 * Gordon Onslow Ford Scholarship, Lucid Art Foundation, Inverness, CA, 2009
 * Richard K. Price Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2008