ABOUT THE ARTIST
A graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design (1998 BFA in Illustration) Barbara Willcox DiLorenzo is a painter who until recently, ran a gallery in Ipswich, MA. The Wavepaint Design Studio was a combination graphic and web design studio as well as a fine art gallery featuring local award-winning artists. Wavepaint was also an intimate venue for lectures and performances, as well a classroom for instructed art lessons and open figure drawing. In 2010 Barbara moved to Manhattan with her family, where she studied painting at the Art Students League of New York. Mary Beth McKenzie was her teacher for over a year in the field of realistic portrait painting.
In the fall of 2011, Barbara was a monitor for Robert Cenedella's afternoon painting class. (For a visual representation of what her day was like at the League, visit this link to see her nine-year old son's interpretation.)
Barbara is currently teaching a watercolor class through The Creative Center at Confucius Plaza one day a week. The rest of the time she is working steadfastly on building her children's illustration portfolio. Barbara is also the proud mom of a wonderful nine-year old, and wife to a great cook.
ART MEMBERSHIPS
- North Shore Arts Association - Since 2007
Served on the jury for member shows in 2010
Solo show in the Gordon Grant room in 2011 - Art Students League of New York - Since 2011
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators - Rejoined in 2011
AWARDS & JURIED PIECES
- Art Students League of New York - "The Studio" received Honorable Mention in the Student Exhibition (Mary Beth McKenzie's class) at the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery - April 2011
- Plein Air Contest and Exhibition - "Hog Island" won Best of Medium in Acrylic - Hosted by the Manchester-by-the-Sea Historical Society’s Trask House, organized by the Granite Shore Gallery, July 1-31, 2010
- New England Watercolor Society - Juried into the Regional Show for "Clammer" - Sept. 2009 - Jan. 2010, Duxbury MA
- Topsfield Fair - Received 3rd place in the professional category for "The Conversation" - Watercolor - Fall 2009
- North Shore Arts Association - Beverly A. DeMont Memorial Award for "Wednesday" - Fall 2008
- North Shore Arts Association - Hazel Morey Memorial Award for "Starbucks" - Spring 2008
PAST SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- May 15 - 29, 2011 - Gordon Grant Room of the North Shore Arts Association - Portraits & Plein Air in Oil
Barbara exhibited a solo show in the Gordon Grant room at The North Shore Arts Association for two weeks in May 2011. Thirty new pieces were painted in New York in the nine months since Barbara moved from the North Shore of Massachusetts to the East Side of Manhattan. Subject matter ranged from portraits to plein air paintings of the city's urban landscape.- 2010 - BankGloucester - Portraits in Oil
- 2009 - Hall Haskell House - The Places We Shop, Ipswich Series
- 2008 - Hall Haskell House - The Places We Shop, Expanded
- 2007 - The Pingree School - The Places We Shop
- 2006 - Zumis Café
- 2005 - Hall Haskell House
LINKS TO RELATED PROFESSIONAL WEBSITES
| Contact Information: (347) 577-2921 (mobile) barbara @ wavepaint.com 230 E. 78th Street, Apt. 12 New York, NY 10075
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