MPPL // FRANCE
Born in Paris, Marie-Pierre Philippe-Lohezic, MPPL, studied at l’École des Beaux-Arts where her artistic mastery began with a thorough immersion in sketching and oil painting. Mother of three girls, she followed her husband wherever his employment lead and had the unique opportunity of exploring various countries in Asia. The immersion in such different cultures, so fully rich and diverse, had a profound influence over her sensitivity and allowed her to discover and master different procedures that she uses to express herself as appropriate. Now settled in Southern California, Marie-Pierre continuously adds new skills to her palette: Printmaking, Sculpture, Bronze Casting, Stone Carving, Wax, Wood Carving, all contributing to her liberty to elect the medium that will most aptly convey her message or reflect her feelings.
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Creatively inspired by the moderns like Picasso, Buffet, Cézanne, Rodin and Archipenko, Marie-Pierre is attracted to cubism and abstract art, but may also elect to be figurative according to the emotion she wants to portray or the mood of the moment.
Marie-Pierre is less interested in becoming proficient in one technique than to discover what that technique can do for her art. Her versatility is actually her way of expressing her spontaneity. Creating is the spur of a moment, even with a slower media, such as Stone carving. She is at a loss when she is unable to produce a result rapidly, because what initially inspired her may escape her if she fails to grab it. Her art is to capture the instant or to snatch the movement or to seize the mood and these are her major themes: express the instant, the motion, and the emotion.
Extending the concept of metamorphosis, the woman body is a source of endless inspirations, for a woman generates life and alters her body in the process. The woman’s body is so rich that it can be depicted in myriads of ways according to the perspective of the artist and her feelings at the time, and that body is the envelope sheltering the multi-faceted being inside.
MAIN EXHIBITIONS
La Bottega Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA)
Sandstone Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA)
Mystique Fine Art Gallery (Scottsdale, AZ)
Pasadena Showcase House of Design (Pasadena, CA)
Twice Juried for a life size piece in a Community Center (Tucson, AZ)
Juried for a life size piece By "Art in Place" (Charlottesville, VA)
Three Times Juried for Public Art By "Art around the Corner" (St George, UT)
" The Happenings Gallery " (Marina del Rey, CA)
Juried & selected with Mystery by “ American Woman Artists ” (Atlanta, GE)
International Juried "Academic Excellence" at the NAMOS ( Indianapolis, IN)
Life size in place at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens (Vienna, VA)
Group Show, Bistango Gallery-Restaurant, (Newport Beach, CA)
Juried & selected with Nostalgie by “ American Woman Artists ” (Dallas, TX)
Group Show at NohoGallery (North Hollywood, CA)
Juried & selected with Symbiosis in “ National Art Encounter ” (Naples, FL)
Juried for a life size piece By "Art in Place" (Charlottesville, VA)
Juried Group show "Show some Emotion” (Vancouver)
Online International Juried Competition & Exhibition ArtScene
AvantGarden Gallery (Santa Ana, CA)
Juried Group Show “ Fine Art of the Figure ” (Stanwood, WA)
OC Fine Art Gallery (Costa Mesa)
Virtual Juried Gallery: www.theartgallerist.com
Juried and Awarded in a Sculpture Exhibit with “Pen & Brush” (New York)
Juried Group show at “Ellen Noel Art Museum” (Odessa, TX)
Online International Juried Competition & Exhibition: www.artkudos.com with Nostalgie
Cove Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA
“Featured Artist” at NoHo Gallery (North Hollywood, CA)
OC Fine Arts (Costa Mesa, CA)
Gallery “104” (San Clemente, CA)
Gallery “Townley Fine Art” ( Laguna Beach, CA)
Juried and Prized at the “Guggenheim Gallery” Chapman University (Orange, CA)
Paintings & sculptures selected for the making of the movie "Annabel Lee"
Juried Show (Petaluma, CA)
Show at “Art de Soul” (Costa Mesa, CA)
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