GREENSBORO, NC.- The Weatherspoon Art Museum presents the film Alice Neel. The second film in the Weatherspoon Summer Film Series, Alice Neel is a feature-length documentary film on the life and art of American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984). This document tells the story of Neel’s life, exploring the struggles she faced as a woman artist, a single mother, and a painter who defied convention. This film explores the entirety of Neel’s life, making use of the extensive textual, photographic, and filmic archives granted exclusively to SeeThink Productions by Neel Arts and Alice Neel Images. SeeThink has also gained exclusive access to noted video artist Michel Auder’s footage of Neel in her seventies and eighties. 2007, 82 minutes.

Director, Andrew Neel, the grandson of Alice Neel, is in a distinctive position to direct this film. Under Andrew’s direction, the film takes an intimate approach to Alice Neel’s life, consistent with the themes of intimacy and family that were so central to her work. The film weaves together Alice Neel’s own words and images, still photographs, and interviews with noted art historians, family members, and portrait subjects in order to tell the story of her life. Alice’s story is told using as many of her own words and images as possible. Neel’s personal recollections, documented by Patricia Hills in the early 1980’s, along with Neel’s written work is read in voice-over, allowing Alice to narrate her own story. Given the autobiographical nature of Alice Neel’s art, much of her own work is used to tell her story.