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Artist Exhibitions:
Recent Awards:
2005- The Milford Zornes
Award, 18th International
Animals in Art Exhibition,
Baton Rouge, LA
Juried National and
International Exhibitions:
2005- National Juried Art Show
at the Dog Show, Wichita, KS
2005- 18th International
Animals in Art Exhibition,
Baton Rouge, LA
Selected Local Juried/Non
Juried Exhibitions:
2004-2005 ...
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Artist Galleries:
Buenaventura Art Gallery,
700 E. Santa Clara Street
Old Town Ventura, California
Harbor Village Art Gallery
Spinnaker Drive, Harbor
Village
Ventura, California...
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Artist Reviews:
2004 Conejo Valley
Examiner, "Artist Works to
Save Dogs" October 1, 2004,
Page28, Thousand Oaks, CA
2001 Morning Glory, Thousand
Oaks, CA; Volume 31, page 45,
California Lutheran University
2000 Morning Glory, Thousand
Oaks, CA; Volume 30, pages 52
& 53, California Lutheran
University
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Collections:
Channel Islands Medical,
Ventura, California, USA
P. Kroovand Esq., Lake Forest,
Illinois, USA
K. Wilson, Tulsa, Oklahoma,
USA
B. Fleming, Greensborough,
North Carolina, USA
M. Lynch, Houston, Texas, USA
Dr. L. Welch, West Chester,
Pennsylvania, USA
K. Mann, Las Vegas, Nevada,
USA
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Commissions:
2005 Selected as the Artist
to Create the Artwork for the
2005 Annual Christmas Card for
Almost Home Rescue.
2004 “Channel Islands Tide
Pools” entire room Mural,
Channel Islands Medical Group,
Channel Islands, CA
2004 “The Steamer Tahoe”
Historic Painting on Canvas,
F.J. Chamberlin, Lake Tahoe,
CA
2003 “Step ...
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Artist Statement for Stella Violano
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STELLA M. VIOLANO
When I was a child the world was a place to be freely explored. I would ride my bike, the sun in my face and the wind blowing my hair, anywhere my heart desired. My art career started during such an excursion, when digging past the layer of sand in the local park playground I happened upon a thick slab of adobe earth clay. This discovery led to hours of sculpting subjects, usually the family dog. My father told me of the local history and the role that the native adobe clay played in building homes. It was this love of both art and history that lead me to change mediums to oil painting which allowed me to record even greater detail and imagery in a smaller space.
I am currently painting two series:
"The Historic Series" and "The Animal Series"
“The Animal Series”
The Animal Series features both wildlife and homeless domestic animals in rescues and city shelters. When painting homeless pets I will often paint small studies first and sell them to benefit the rescue that is housing the animal used as a model. The popularity of these studies has allowed me to generously donate back to the animal rescue shelters, directly benefiting the animals that I use as models.
“The Historic Series”
My historic series commemorates the simple lifestyles of the past century. From Florida’s palmetto grove Cow Hunters to Nevada’s Lake Tahoe’s Steamer, such images are symbols of life when living meant working off the land and knowing the outside world intimately. It is my greatest passion to paint history in a way that allows the viewer to feel and appreciate the past as I do.
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