Saturday December 3rd starting at noon and onward into the late evening at Gallery Lulo.

Alice Warnecke Sutro creates large scale figurative installations that fully depend on audience interaction. Her live drawing sessions are humorous and bright thanks to her signature emotive line style, but also reveal a deeply philosophical comment on the nature of art. After many years of experimental drawing, Alice’s practice prioritizes art’s ancient purpose as a community-forming activity for ritual gatherings.
The format for her projects is recurring: inviting participants from a crowd and drawing them live, direct and with no erasing. She works in charcoal, paint or digital. The figures are rendered with an extremely sensitive line that demonstrates her love of people, often strangers, with whom she converses the entire time.
In keeping with ritual experiences, Alice will always design the project so that she is exploring the edge of her physical capacity by drawing for extended periods of time and on extreme dimensions. Past projects have included covering a 3-story façade with figures by means of a scissor lift and extension paintbrushes, drawing in public hallways in a hotel, and most recently, drawing art fair visitors for 2 days straight in record heat to create a 120 foot human roll.
Alice does not have a studio and claims to have studio-phobia. She works only on public oriented projects carefully designed to meet the criteria discussed above. This life-balance allows her to maintain her other passions: Warnecke Ranch, a family grape growing business; Sutro Wine Co, a boutique wine label founded and entirely run by Alice; and her volunteer work with Alexander Valley Winegrowers. She is a mom of two and lives with her family at Warnecke Ranch in Healdsburg, home to Chalk Hill Artist Residency.

We are excited to host this successful event again showing the process of an artist at work.