Zoe Ivonne

ARTIST STATEMENT


There have been three great passions in my life, fly and travel the world, which led me to graduate as an International Flight Attendant and Air Operations Management in my youth, to be an Early Childhood Teacher and express myself as a Visual Artist. For a life time, I have treasured independent self-taught studies in art and I have been always fascinated by the expressive freedom and visual impact of Abstract Painting, in particular by the emotional color use of Rothko and Richter and the Gestural Expressionism of Pollock. Years ago, I had the wonderful experience to be an Art Gallery Director in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which not only allowed me to represent great artists, but to get deep into the insight of their creative process; then I decided to start creating my own Art.
I do not follow the same working process on every piece, I begin with an inspirational idea, but I focus on expression instead of design, allowing the materials to create their own dialog. I constantly experiment with color and texture, mixing and overlying pigments and acrylic mediums, using brushes, rolls, squeegees and palette knives, and applying washes and transparencies in some areas to achieve dynamic and unpredictable color-effe...

2018-Art in the Heart of the City, Selected by New Britain Mayor for a six months exhibition at New Britain City Hall, New Britain, CT
2018-11th Annual CT+6, Region Juried Exhibition, New York and New England Artists, Salt Box Galley, West Hartford, CT
2018-Juried Annual Exhibition, Saltbox Galley, West Hartford Art League, W H, CT
2017- Nancy Fritzch Award, Best Painting in Acrylic, West Hartford Art League, WH, CT
2017-10th Annual CT+6, Region Juried Exhibition, New York and New England Artists, Salt Box Galley, West Hartford, CT, Curated by Min Jung Kim, Director of the New Britain Museum of American Art.
2017-Juried Annual Exhibition, Saltbox Galley, West Hartford Art League, W H, CT
2016-Juried Annual Exhibition, Saltbox Galley, West Hartford Art League, W H, CT
2011-2012- Zoe Y. Galeria de Arte, Gallery Director, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Publications:
Identidad Latina Newspaper, Hartford, Connecticut. Zoe Ivonne, Only Latina Artist selected for Annual West Hartford Art League Juried Exhibition. December 8, 2016. http://identidadlatina.com/locales-artista-latina-seleccionada-por-west-hartford-art-league/