Claire Menegatti

Claire Menegatti lives and works from her home studio in Los Angeles, CA. She graduated in 2010 from California State University Long Beach with her BFA in Illustration. While persuing her education, Claire worked to perfect her skills in the Figurative Arts with repetitive courses in Life Drawing, Life Painting, Costumed Figure, and Anatomy, which not only resulted in her having an inordinate amount of credits under her belt, but also honed her now superior eye, senses, and skills. It is this dedication and passion to mastering her complete understanding of form, color, composition, and representation that is visible and ubiquitous in all of her work. In 2008, she received the John Lincoln Figure Drawing Award from CSULB.
Her greatest skills are in the traditional methods of art creating, particularly with oils, watercolors, and inks. Her work has a feminine, delicate, and organic aesthetic and leans towards the whimsical, charismatic, or melancholy moods. The importance of Life is exhibited in all of her work. She enjoys representing the curious, beautiful, and sometimes bizarre nature found in the anatomy and textures of wildlife. Her wildlife images show her child-like exuberance for life and it is enthralling. Her deeper emot...

California State University Long Beach
(BFA In Illustration) 2010

Pasadena City College
(A.A./A.S.) 2003

NWOP Concert (Pasadena, CA) - 2018
The Exchange Gallery (Bloomsburg, PA.) - 2018
The Vast Lab (L.A, CA) - 2018
Gallery 825 - (L.A, CA.) - 2018
Jackalope Art Fair (Pasadena, CA) - 2017
RAW Artists @ Boulevard 3 (LA, CA) - 2016
Lagunas Gallery (Laguna, CA) - 2014
Soapbox @ East LA Rep (LA, CA) - 2012
Fawn Art Gallery (Costa Mesa, CA) - 2012
The Jone's Gallery (Long Beach, CA) - 2012
San Pedro Art Walk @ People's Yoga - 2011
The Long Beach Playhouse (Long Beach, CA) - 2011
The Art Attec (Long Beach, CA) - 2011
BFA Senior Show (CSULB Gallery) - 2010
The Bluebird Gallery (Whittier, CA) - 2009
Scholarship Show (CSULB Museum) - 2009
CSULB Fusion @ Smooth's (Long Beach, CA.) - 2009
Soapbox @ The Garage (Long Beach, CA.) - 2008
Scholarship Show (CSULB Museum) - 2008
Soapbox @ The Garage (Long Beach, CA.) - 2006
The Equator Cafe (Pasadena, CA.) - 2005