Symphony In Pink
Academic training in Graphic Design and Art History, skills in marketing/graphics, and 12 years leading public art projects to shape my work.
I am pursuing a Masters in Museum Studies at Leicester University alongside my art practice.
My originals feature in Kawkab Art Gallery, while prints sell in Missprints&Masterpieces.
I was published in All She Makes Magazine, Fall 2021, and Art Seen Magazine, November 2021; most recently in Art Seen Magazine, November 2022, and Artist Talk Magazine, Issue 22.
My work appeared in curated online exhibits;
⁃ Intrinsic Nature – Curator’s Salon, June 2021
⁃ Changing the World, Women Role Models – WCADC, May 2021
⁃ Our Reflection – The Huts Magazine, July 2022
⁃ Oppositions – Holy Art Gallery, May 2022
⁃ Bringing Color to the World – Art Mums United, Sept-Oct2022
– Our Stories – Photo Trouvée Magazine, November 2022
-The Fabric of Our Lives- SOLO SHOW, Women United Art Movement- currently running
Being shortlisted for the Emerging Scene Art Prize in 2020 included my work on over 1,200 screens across Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
I exhibited in DIFC Art Nights in November 2020; and participated in World Art Dubai in 2022 with a solo booth, after having been featured in gallery booths previously.
I exhibited in “Occupy the Moment”, the National Women’s Caucus for Art exhibit (50th conference, Chicago 2021), and WCA-DC’s “What is Ours” exhibition- Sandy Spring Museum Sept-Nov 2022.
More recently, I ranked 8th in the Women United Art Prize Collage and Fiber Art Category. I was also included in the curated Portrait Show at Hubspace Gallery in Dubai Sep4-11 and at Boushahri Gallery in Kuwait in the Art Is Life show Aug15-Sep15 2022. December 2022 saw my work exhibited in Al Fanar Restaurant, UAE National Day Exhibit, and Kawkab Art’s Dubai Box Park Art Show.
While fiber arts have existed for millennia, they have historically been ranked on an inferior scale to painting and sculpture, mainly for their association with femininity and domesticity. The dismissal of crafts as a frivolous feminine pursuit resulted in validating art with more masculine associations. This was formalized when the Royal Academy established the delineation in the 17th century by banning needlework from the sphere of high art in Europe.
With most recognized and documented art having been produced by men, the history of Western art as an academic institution essentially ignored the expression of women and with that, has omitted their story.
This work is donned in a textile that is jutting out of the surface of the canvas as if to say to the viewer, “hey! Come touch me! Come talk to me! I am here!” I ask the question: Has art ever been truly ours, as women? Do we have to reinvent it in order to claim it?
These paintings speak to when October arrives. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and the second most common overall. Each year, we feel good about covering the devastating reality of this disease with pink ribbons, flowers, and butterflies -while so many are battling with their own cells behind flimsy polka dot hospital gowns, bright curtains shielding the lines of light imaging and radiation machines draw on their invisible faces. Until we are serious about funding research that will find a cure, October will remain a cotton candy month that we use to comfort ourselves instead of those that are sick. The truth is, it’s so much better to stay alive than to be gloriously memorialized.
Synoptic Symphony
I have been painting for many decades. I am an honors graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and a member of The Ontario Society of Artists also a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. I freelanced out of Toronto and New York City and appeared in many well-known publications before moving to St. Andrews and setting up “shop”. The traffic was just too much in the Big Smoke! I’ve taught at my Alma Mater as well as at Sheridan College and Central Tech in Toronto. Through residency and a grant, I’ve taught and painted in Bermuda, Cuba, Tunisia, Spain, Sicily, and Mexico. I’m represented by The Cobalt Gallery in Saint John, the Breakwater Gallery in Eastport Maine, and I also display at The Andrew and Laura McCain Gallery here in New Brunswick. I’m a member of the new creative team dubbed, “Dash” presently exhibiting throughout the Maritimes.
Impressionistic or semi-abstract would probably identify my work. I tend to resist classification by not immersing myself in one ongoing echelon. Over the years I have ventured into many genres including landscapes, seascapes, still life, and editorial cartooning. I experiment somewhat, as formal representation is not my way of subverting subject matter into a final solution. Motion and depth are paramount as I develop a canvas. Through basic design elements, I strive to create continuous motion enabling the eye to flow fluidly throughout the composition. Working from images I’ve shot gives one a myriad of subjects and overviews, and this is now my usual source. I am, however, most fortunate to have a beautiful view of Passamaquoddy Bay with the Niger Reef right outside my studio window. This astounding scene I’ve put to canvas many times. Visual stimuli are everywhere here in our beautiful province.
Synthesis
I was born and raised in NYC but mostly in The Bronx. I attended CCNY where I graduated with a BS in Mathematics and an MA in Mathematics Education. I taught high school mathematics in The Bronx. I have always been interested in the arts and started writing poems and playing guitar at age 19. I studied poetry under Professor Robert O’Clair. I studied guitar at The Guitar Workshop. I studied painting and drawing at SUNY in Purchase. Recently, I have had work exhibited continuously at HMVC Gallery New York virtually since its inception. A wonderful gallery with wonderful artists! My poems have been published in magazines, books, and at HVMOCA. I self-published a children’s book, ”Mr. Fine Goes to the Eye Doctor”. My principal artistic interest has been abstract painting and drawing for the last 10 years, but I have written many poems as well. I live in Putnam County, NY.
My work in fine arts has principally been in 2 classes of abstract paintings: oils and water-based paints. However, I have completed numerous works in drawing. I focus on color, texture, methodology of delivery, and composition. In composition, I am interested in positive space and negative space as well. I believe the painting is a manifestation of my emotional state of both conscious and unconscious feelings.
Taiyo
“Art, in all its many expressions, echoes the collective unconscious of humanity. Mass consciousness is influenced by the action or inaction of the whole. As we change individually, the planet changes collectively. Art changes us at our core and if we allow it, transports us to another time, dimension, or reality.”
At heart, Pamela Nigro is a risk taker, adventurer, and explorer. Not only has she walked on the edge of jungles in the Philippine Islands and chanted in Franciscan Monasteries, she’s also appeared on Broadway stages in the asphalt jungle of New York City.
Her art reflects a narrative about her fascination with human behavior, cultural values, beliefs, and principles. Bold, colorful palettes and a daring, passionate authenticity, as well as a distinctively unique perspective, make her art captivating and widely sought. Pamela believes artists are the record keepers and storytellers of mankind, with an opportunity to curate their work depending on the current social climate and direction.
She is committed to using her art to heal, stimulate discussion, open new avenues of thought, give the viewer a profoundly moving experience… and ultimately to transport them out of their current reality.
My work currently is about the human condition through the exploration and study of ancient and modern cultural symbols, language, customs, and spirituality. With that in mind, I begin a ritualistic stream of consciousness painting style utilizing bold, vivid colors, organic and geometric shapes, symbols, lines, and form.
Getting a glimpse of different cultures and customs reveals our commonalities and an interconnectedness to all Life. In order for a story, symbol, language, custom etc. to be relevant there must be agreement within the culture Bringing focus to the ideas and customs within our civilizations that we agree upon can perhaps help to men the fabric of our societies as well as strengthen our understanding of the past, present and future.
Taking A Break
John was born in Columbus Ohio, graduated from Ohio State, and lived in Southern California for 30 years. Although John learned to draw and paint as a young boy, his degrees are in the computer science field. It wasn’t until 2010 when his wife bought him a large easel and encouraged him to start painting again, that he began to take his art career seriously. Since then John has been selected in over 200 gallery shows and juried contests, including the National Oil & Acrylic Painter’s Society 2014 Best in America show. John’s Carousel Horse #1 was featured in the June 2014 issue of the Artist’s Magazine Competition Spotlight, and he was featured in the ‘Artists to Watch’ section of the Southwest Art March 2016 edition. John’s acrylic paintings have been included in AcrylicWorks Best of Acrylic Painting volumes 1 through 10 and his paintings have been voted FAV15% in Bold Brush on a number of occasions.
I create, what I call Realistic Impressions, using heavy body acrylics with lots of detail and bold colors. I am constantly dancing along the fine line between realism and abstraction, using one to balance the other. When I approach a new work I start with a concept, a learning goal, various reference images, and a color palette. My sketches are brief because I know the painting will change many times before completed. I usually paint from the inside out, starting with the main focal point, and letting it influence the color and value of the other players in the scene.
Taking A Break In Bryant Park
Frances Gunther was 14 years old when she discovered that she enjoyed drawing. On a summer day in a Catskills camp, she drew an old wooden outhouse. She discovered that she loved doing arts and crafts and taught it to children at YM-YWHA’s and camps. After attending Rhode Island School of Design, where she got a Master’s in Art Education and Textile Design, she worked in the fashion industry as a colorist of textiles. She continued her studies at various NYC art schools. Fran won textile design contests, including a Tommy Award as “Best Student Designer”, a contest promoted by the textile industry.
Fran retired from teaching technology in 2015 and moved to New Jersey with her partner, and once again started taking art classes, painting, and exhibiting. Fran works in acrylics, watercolor, oil, pen and ink, and pastels. Many of her paintings reflect places where she has traveled. Most of her works are based on her own photos and experiences. Her paintings hang in various states. She has exhibited in group shows at the Gourgaud Gallery in Cranbury, Middlesex Senior Art Competition (winning various awards), the Barron’s Art Center in Woodbridge, the Monmouth Museum (in an international juried art show), the Monroe Twp. Juried Art Show and other venues. In 2023, Fran had her first solo show at the Monroe Township library. Fran gives her paintings to family and friends and also sells them, so that others can enjoy her art.
I am motivated to paint and draw through my observations, taking photos of images that inspire me, and/or drawing sketches where I am at a particular time. I enjoy looking at paintings of different artists and admire how they accomplished the look they wanted. These are preliminary steps to starting a new piece.
I use various media, including oils, acrylics, watercolors, inks, and pastels, and decide on which to use based on what would best work in that art and based on the image I am trying to capture. Research is a big part of many of my works, such as the structure of boats, the anatomy of a person or animal, or the parts of various flowers and how they grow. I pride myself on the ability to mix colors and achieve a specific feeling in the paintings that I aim for. I study the lines in a painting, the darks, lights, and contrasts, and the organization and crossing of lines and shapes. Sometimes I am very calculating in a piece, measuring proportions and perspective, and other times I freely draw an image, such as when I’m on a bench in Amsterdam or at a concert.
Each piece that I do reflects my understanding of the place, object, or person, sharing its beauty visually.
Tale Of Two Sisters
Taylor Ramsey is a multidisciplinary studio artist known for her mixed-media paintings and illustrations. She is a BFA graduate from Sam Houston State University, where she majored in studio art and animation.
Ramsey describes her work as an “undeniably black, nonsensical paradise”, that highlights her portraiture through the culmination of melanated figures, layered patterns, haute couture, and fantastical ideas.
I explore storytelling through portraiture. My work focuses on a fantastical view of blackness mainly depicting melanated figures and various cultural southern references. My paintings utilize vibrant colors, with an emphasis on patterns, fashion, and fantasy that brings character identity to the forefront of my work.
Talk To The Moon
Katerina Lanfranco is an NYC-based artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York where she makes paintings, drawings, mixed media works, and sculptures. Lanfranco earned her BA in Art and in Visual Theory and Museum Studies from UC Santa Cruz, and her MFA in Studio Art in Painting from Hunter College, City University of New York. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Kupferstichkabinett Museum of Prints and Drawings in Berlin, and the Corning Museum of Glass.
She is the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Japan-US Creative Exchange Fellowship Artist-in-Residence Award; DNA Artist Residency, Sugar Shack Artist-in-Residence; Vermont Studio Center; Pollock Krasner Fellowship at the Byrdcliffe Artist Residency; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Artist in Residence with Flux Factory; Tony Smith Award from Hunter College; Hunter College Exchange Scholarship to study at UdK Berlin, Germany; and the William Graft Memorial Fund Travel Grant to research High Baroque Italian painting. She has been invited as a guest artist and critic to colleges and residency programs in California, New York, Tennessee, and Florida. She writes about art that interests her on POVarts.com. Lanfranco founded Rhombus Space in 2013 and was Chief Curator at Trestle Gallery from 2015 to 2018. Her work has been represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery since 2006. Lanfranco’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, and internationally in Toronto, Canada; Berlin, Germany; Milan, Italy; and Kyoto, Japan.
Recent shows include solo shows Nature Poems at Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Mystic Geometry at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Efflorescence at the SCPS Gallery at Pratt Manhattan, Talk to the Moon at Day & Night Projects in Atlanta, Georgia, and Shadow Light at HOUSEGallery in Philadelphia. Her work has been reviewed in ARTnews, ARTinfo, and The New York Times.
Through my art practice, I explore aspects of nature, science, and fantasy. My work seeks to explore the apparent duality of culture and nature. I make art as a way to ask questions about the world that I live in:
How do I make the invisible visible, and at what point does fantasy become reality?
How do we relate to nature, and what can we learn from natural forms, cycles, and
rhythms?
With each of my exhibitions, I consider the total experience of the viewer, and how they move through the architectural setting of the space to encounter the art. I often include installation elements, shifts of scale, and materials to activate the senses. Thinking of nature through the lens of culture, I reference different modes of representing nature, such as botanical illustrations, floral fabric patterns, curio cabinets, scientific notes, dioramas, and panoramas. I follow the traditions of Symbolist and Visionary art along with Romanticism and embrace bold color in the same vein as the colorists such as the Fauvists and Les Nabis. I am fond of and feel very connected to the spiritual experience that the Hudson River Valley painters were trying to achieve in their transcendentalist landscape paintings.
Landscapes, sacred geometry, natural history, and biological structures are recurring themes. I am interested in how we, as humans, create meaning in relation to the natural world. These paintings are part of my “Talk to the Moon” series that explores the notion of the Feminine Devine.
Talking With My Sisters About My Head Full Of Dreams
Cecilia Anastos is a self-taught, Italian-American painter. Using oil or acrylic on canvas, paper, or wood, Ms. Anastos paints landscapes, cityscapes, and figurative compositions. Sometimes, she expresses her emotions through abstract paintings. Brightly colored and uplifting, her paintings tell stories that touch the relationship of sentient beings with the environment and the joys and struggles of women around the world.
Ms. Anastos also enjoys creating commissioned paintings. One of them now hangs at the San Diego Supreme Court, office of Hon. Judge Muñoz.
Ms. Anastos is a Board Member of the San Diego Museum of Art Artist Guild, and she participates in national and international exhibitions. Her works have been included in exhibitions at the San Diego Museum of Art-Artist Guild, Newport Beach Civic Center, Connecticut Women Artist Gallery, Museum Maritime of Barcelona, and many other online exhibitions.
Using oil or acrylic on canvas, paper, or wood, I paint landscapes, cityscapes, and surreal-impressionist representations of women. Brightly colored and uplifting, my paintings tell stories that touch on the relationship of sentient beings with nature and the tribulations of women. Some of these landscapes and cities will disappear due to climate change. I want to leave a legacy of what they used to look like.