Carla Nano

. : about me

Many of my childhood memories are tied to a pencil and a piece of paper. If there is anything I brought with me into this world, is the desire to express myself through drawing and painting, a natural, almost intuitive skill.

As an adult I chose to be a Graphic Designer, and developed my business for 15 years. Of course that my designs where very artistic pieces. With time my real passion prevailed, and I began my path in art.

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I lived until ten years ago, when I moved with my family to Potomac, Maryland. Perhaps it was this great change in my life that helped me to get closer to my passion, art.

I started taking classes in painting and drawing at Montgomery College School of Art + Design; until I met my current teachers, Natasha Mokina and Victor Pakhomkin, two excellent artists of the Russian Classical School. I participated in several Workshops, and my work has been exhibited at the Winter Palace Art Gallery located in Georgetown; at the Embassy of Russia in Washington DC; and at the Embassy of Argentina in Washington DC.

Even though my art is in the classical realism, I enjoy adding my personal touch and contemporary point of view. My goal is to capture ...

• 2010-2014
Painting and Drawing classes at Winter Palace Studio
• 2007-2009
Painting and Drawing at Montgomery College School of Art + Design
• 2000
Postgraduate on Flash in the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
• 1999
Postgraduate on Web-design in the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
• 1998
Postgraduate in Multimedia Design in the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
• 1988 . 1992
Bachelor Degree in Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

• December 2013
Figure Workshop + Exhibition: Figure in the History of Panting
Study of the human figure through the masters
Reproduction of “The Valpinçon Bather” by Jean Auguste D. Ingres December • 2012
Color Workshop + Exhibition: 300 Shades of White
Study of the color white and the light through the masters
Reproduction of “The floor scrapers” by Gustave Caillebotte
• September 2012
Embassy of Argetina, Washington DC
My work was selected by the Embassy Curator to particiate in the Exhibition “Salon de Otoño” (Fall Salon)
• March 2011
Academic Drawing Exhibition, Winter Palace Studio Art Gallery, Georgetown, Washington DC
• May 2011
Still Life Exhibition at the Russian Embassy, Washington DC