"Engaged" Painting

Lara Theo was born in South Africa in 1975 where she stayed her first year. After she travelled and lived all over the world which gave her the opportunity to experience a wide variety of cultures from which she gained a lot of inspiration. Her influences go from African Art, Expressionism and Impressionism, over Cubism to Abstract where she fell in love with Art. She finally realized that abstract Art completed her & gave her freedom. Lara is currently living in Athens Greece where she completed her studies and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree at the “University of La Verne”. Her first abstract influence being Malevich, she brightened up her ideas and imagination – using the wildest colors to the simplest colors – to objects to lines - enabling her to see how minimalist art can be. In her student years she engrossed a lot of inspiration and confidence. Her introduction to the abstract work of Art of the abstract artist Pollock, she proceeded to paint with depth. During her studies she was involved in a majority of exhibitions in Greece – “Pinakothiki Kouvoutsaki Kifissia”, “Demokritikos Hall” in the year 2000. An important point in her career was being involved in an exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden with Andy Warhol’s paintings at the “Wetterling Gallery” in 2001. In 2002 she continued her art studies in Paris at the “Parsons College of Paris”. Through her experiences there she refined her techniques of working with her hands on canvas. In 2003 she had participated in a few exhibitions in Greece, her latest one being “Whispers & Forms” in Athens with great critics.