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Alecia Barry Underhill is a professional artist specializing in equine subject matter. She is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, with a BFA in Illustration, and was recently chosen as an associate member of the American Academy of Equine Art.

Also a member of the Equine Art Guild,she works primarily in oil either on canvas, masonite board, or plywood. She has been drawing and painting horses for over fifteen years, and continually travels to gain new perspectives and new research material. Saratoga Racetrack, The Coaching Weekends in Newport, and New England area horse shows are recurring themes that appear in her work.

She has produced the poster, Horses from A to Z and its followup, Cowman Numerals. She spent her teenage years working with horses at a riding stable and Morgan farm in Connecticut, and continues to ride and work with her own Morgan mare, Unique. She and her husband, Michael, live on a farm in Connecticut with the horses, two cats, and their son, Max.

 

Galleries:

ABoDE Gallery, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard
The Gallery and Shoppes at Celebrations

Solo Shows:

2005 ABoDE Gallery, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard
2003 Thompson Public Library

Juried Exhibitions:

2007, Masters of Foxhounds of America Traveling Exhibition
2007, AAEA Spring Exhibition, Crossgate Gallery, KY
2006 The Horse in Art, Wildlife Experience Museum, Colorado
2006, Animals in Art, Lyme Art Association, CT
2006, AAEA Fall Open Juried Exhibition
2005, Nine Patches Art Show, La Veta, CO
2004, AAEA Fall Open Juried Exhibition
2004, Draft Horse Classic
2003, 1998, 1992, 1989 AAEA Juried Exhibitions
1999, AAEA Celebration of the Horse, Georgia
2001 Equine Art Guild Juried Show
1999 Western States Horse Expo
1995, Georgia Dressage and Combined Training Assoc. Juried Show
Providence Art Club
Warwick Museum, RI

Invitational Group Shows:

2006, The Driven Horse, Skyline Farm Carriage Museum, ME
2006, Stonington Vineyards, Greener Pastures Rescue benefit show
2005 Equine show to benefit Greener Pastures Horse Rescue, The Gilded Edge, Salem, CT
2003 The Equine Spirit, The Wildlife Experience Gallery, Denver
2001 New Canaan Society for the Arts Equestrian Show
2000 Hartford Fine Arts Gallery
Rhode Island School of Design Staff Exhibition (Annually since 1998)
Lone Star Park, Texas

 

Awards:

2001 Equine Art Guild Juried show - 1st Place award for "Blessing of the Horses"
1995 Georgia Dressage and CT Assoc. - 2nd Place award
©2005 Alecia Underhill