Elisa Carozza

Elisa Carozza has been painting since her early teens. She studied with artists Diana Dowek, Alfredo Benavidez Bedoya, and Ann Balbirnie in their studios both in the United States and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Elisa also attended summer and weekend classes in Philadelphia at P.A.F.A.and Moore College of Art, before enrolling at Tyler School of Art, receiving her B.F.A. in 1998. In the Fall of 1999, a cross country journey took her to Northern California where she was impressed deeply by the wild beauty of the landscape and developed and exhibited several series of landscape paintings, including the Pond and Rooted series as well as local vineyard paintings. In 2006, after seven years in bucolic Sonoma County, she moved south to Oakland, in a swing back to city life, invigorated by the energy of flux and blossoming potential in the city. Carozza co-founded and operated a custom frame shop and art gallery in downtown Oakland for 13 years with ex-husband Travis Kuhl. While in the Bay Area, Elisa developed and exhibited the Threshold, Flights and Veiled series and curated exhibits in the gallery at Kuhl Frames. In late 2020, another relocation to Bend, Oregon spawned the "Mosaic Range" series of paintings inspired by the snowy mountain ...

Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, B.F.A.1998
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Weekend and Summer programs, 1988-90
Private Studies with Ann Balbirnie, Diana Dowek, and Alfredo Benavidez Bedoya, 1984-92
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Bibliography
Dan O' Connell, Sheltered in Place: Poems & Art, two artworks featured, book cover by Elisa Carozza
Garrett Burrell, The Plague Doctor, cover art by Elisa Carozza 2009
Obi Kauffman, Review: "Flights",OAKLAND SWEE(t)ART, online magazine, May 4, 2008
Frank Cebulski, Review: "Cal Small Works 2001"artMuse: Sonoma Museum of Visual Art Quarterly, Nov 2001

Teaching
2005 Artist in Residence, CHOPs Teen Center, Santa Rosa, CA
2005 Juror, Artists at the Trailhead, CHOPs Teen Center, Santa Rosa, CA
1998 Assistant Beginning Painting Teacher, Tyler School of Art, Phila. PA

Curatorial
2007- present Co-Owner + Gallery Curator, Kuhl Frames + Art, Oakland, CA
2004 - 2006 Volunteer Exhibit Coordinator, Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA

Selected Exhibitions
2022 Malvern R. H. Art Show, Malvern, PA
2021-22 Resident Artist, Kuhl Frames + Art, Bend, OR
2015 Pro Arts Gallery, EBOS Exhibition, Oakland CA
2015 East Bay Open Studios, Kuhl Frames + Art, Oakland CA
2015 Rosenblum Cellars, Oakland CA
2012 Veil, Kuhl Frames + Art, Oakland CA
2008 Good Paint, IndustriELLE Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 23rd Annual Immaculata University Art Show, Immaculata, PA
2006 4th Annual Café Show, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2004 Anti-Auction, Roshambo Gallery, Healdsburg, CA
2004 Word Up, A Street Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
2004 3rd Annual Café Show, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2003 Fortune, Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA
2002 California Small Works, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2001 California Small Works, Juror Kenneth Baker, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA

Public Art/Installations/Commissions
2017 Downtown Oakland Association- Mural-1600 Peter Van Kleef Way Oakland, CA
2013 Wine Label Art, 2010 "Freedom from the Press" Cabernet Sauvignon, Eden Canyon Vineyards, Paso Robles, CA
2005 Hyatt Vineyard Creek, Brasserie de la Mer, Santa Rosa, CA
2003 LemoUSA Headquar...