Jeannina Blanco

Artist Statement:
"I did not choose to be an artist, Art chose me! It found me, healed me and gave me a great reason to live. To me, Art is an act of Love!"

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Jeannina Blanco is or has been a member of Southern California Plein Air Painters Association, California Art Club, Artsbridge, Salmagundi Club New York, UNESCO's International Association of Art, Asociación Costarricense de Artistas Visuales and Plein Air Costa Rica. The latter she founded in 2002 and serves as the president of the board.

Born in Costa Rica, at age twenty-one moved to California where she took painting workshops with Marilyn Poliquin at Cannery Paints in Newport Beach and later on with artist Hedi Moran in Scottsdale Artist School in Arizona after she recovered from a craniotomy. Her passion for Alla Prima painting was acquired with practice and learning from associated artists of the Southern California Plein Air Painters Association.

Blanco opened his first studio in Newport Beach, California in 1998, where she became a very successful emerging artist but returned to Costa Rica in 2002, then began teaching and exhibiting and auctioning her artwork in both countries. ...

2018 - Residency program "The noise that precedes the silence - Exercises on Editorial Pedagogies", with Pablo Martinez from Spain and Magui Dávila from Argentina, residences of the Spain Cooperation Center, Bo. Escalante, San José, Costa Rica
2016 - Engraving workshop with Alejandra Fournier, Escazú, San José, Costa Rica
2014, Collaborative workshop with artist Randal Arvilla from the Sydney Contemporary Art Museum, Museo de Arte Costarricense, San José, CR
-Water media workshop with artist Silvia Monge, National Gallery, San José, Costa Rica, 2014,
-Watercolour workshop with artist José Pablo Umaña, Rohrmoser, San José, Costa Rica, 2014,
-Writing workshop “Image-Text for Visual Artists” with writer Aurelia Valentina Dobles, Technical College of Costa Rica
2013, "Scripts for museums” workshop with curator Hugo Pineda, Espacio Cultural Carmen Naranjo, Department of Culture, Costa Rica,
- "Curating in Costa Rica", lecture with curators Ma Enriqueta Guardia, Ma José Chavarría and Ileana Alvarado, Museo de Arte Costarricense, Costa Rica,
-"Implications and results of an exhibition project" lecture with curators Hugo Pineda and Paulina Ortiz, Museo de Arte Costarricense, Costa Rica,
-"Reinventing Leonardo Da Vinci and Contemp...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019, “re-Creation”, Galeria MEOK, Łódź, Poland
2016, “Biographical landscapes”, José Luis López Escarré Gallery, National Theatre of Costa Rica
“Portraits”, Municipal School of Integrated Arts EMAI, Santa Ana, San José,
2013, “In Plein Light”, Plein Air Exhibition, Jeannina Blanco Fine Art, Rohrmoser,
2009, “For love at art”, Gallery of Theater Melico Salazar. Declared of Cultural Interest by the Government of Costa Rica
2007, “Retrospective”, Gallery San José Palacio, Costa Rica
2005, “Retrospective”, Institute of Culture of México, Bo Escalante, Costa Rica
“Symphony”, Las Arcadas, Gran Hotel Costa Rica, Costa Rica
2004, “Selected Works”, Gallery of Alta Hotel, Escazú, Costa Rica
2003, “Symphony”, Gallery Joaquín García Monge, National Theatre of Costa Rica
2002, University College of Cartago, Costa Rica
“Permanent Exhibition”, Arte Blanco Gallery, Escazú, Costa Rica
2000, “Permanent Exhibition”, Studio La Rue, Newport Beach, California, United States
SELECTED COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2019 Itinerant Exhibition “Pajzaż łączy dwa kraje”, Artists Exchange Poland - Costa Rica. Dom Kultury Łódzki, Poland / Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones / Escuela Casa del Artista / Centro de Conservación / Declared of C...