Kimberlee Alemian received her BFA at Massachusetts College of Art in 1988, where she stud- ied with George Nick, Paul Rahilly and Rob Moore. She was honored with a full scholarship to attend Boston University’s MFA Painting program. Here she studied with David Aronson, John Moore, Graham Nickson and Richard Raiselis. Upon graduating with her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, Boston University, in 1991, she continued her studies with Graham Nickson at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Alemian is rep- resented by the Munson Gallery, Chatham, the Alpers Gallery, Andover, and the South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.

She is the recipeint of the Grumbacker Gold Medal award and has won many other awards for her work.

Alemian has been included in the following museum exhibitions; A Community of Artists, Dan- forth Museum of Art, Landscapes Revisited, Solo exhibition, Sparrow House Museum, Plymouth, Milton Art Museum, Solo Show, Milton, MA

She paints primarily in the medium of oil. Her subject matter includes landscapes, still lifes and fgures.

In the past few years, she has studied the techniques of, among others, Willem deKooning, Hans Hofman, Richard Diebenkorn, the Bay Area Figurative artists and contemporary artist Cynthia Packard, adopting their methods of strong, gestural brushwork and aggressive color.

Alemian was born in Spokane, Washington,USA. Between 1964 and 1967, she lived in Hong Kong and Bangkok,Thailand respectively. Her father worked with Gillette just when United States companies were exploring and opening up the Asian markets. Here she was introduced to exotic art and architecture. Her family moved to Germany in 1967 where she thrived in the art classes at Munich International School and studied art privately with Marika Popovits.

She has traveled to France with her husband Richard on numerous occasions and looked close- ly at the work of Ingres, Poussin, Degas, Bonnard and Matisse. It was her frst visit to Italy, however, that profoundly infuenced her sense of color and structure. The rich golden tones and structure of the Italian masters hit a unique spot in her sensibilities.