Women in Art Women in Art is an International exhibition of visual modern and contemporary arts organized by Leda Maria and The Ward-Nasse Gallery and Museum in New York. The basic objective of the exhibition is therefore to make a precise selection and give an international visibility to all participating artists in the field of the art world, and also to celebrate Women's Day, which the Ward-Nasse has long collaborated. All the artists participating in the 9th edition. We actually operated a strict quality selection by the gallery curator and art director Mr. Harry Nasse. Each artist is able to offer to the public her atmosphere and establish dialogue between art and the viewers. The exhibition, in its entirety promotes this dialogue through it format and concept. The exhibition will allow the public to understand and appreciate the works on display . Leda Maria About the curator: She was born in Brazil, and hold degree in art history (MFA), at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado - FAAP , and Fine Arts degree at Faculdades Integradas Teresa D'Avila (BFA) - FATEA. Art History at Lorenzo Di Medici School in Florence - Italy, printmaking & Sculpture at The Art Student League of NY, and painting at Studio School of Drawing , Painting and Sculpture.
contact the curator: wardnasse@gmail.com ledaarte@gmail.com
She has been published in Several Magazines, newspapers, numerous art catalogs and art books in Brazil as well in Europe, Asia and USA, and also achieved few awards for her own art. Leda Maria is an art historian, artist , fine art and ceramic/sculptor teacher,
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Natacha Audet Visual Artist CANADA
audetnatacha@hotmail.com www.natachaaudet.com Multidisciplinary artist and self-taught, Natacha Audet was born in 1971 in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada, and has been living there since. She practices her passion professionally since 2005. Very active in her region every year she shows her art in many solo and group exhibitions, notably with the Corporation of Art Professions in Charlevoix, in the various places of broadcasts including the Museum of Bay St-Paul Contemporary Art, the Museum of Charlevoix, or the Autumn Dream festival. She is also very involved in the culture of its environment, supervising the artistic and cultural projects for children, being jury, then spokeswoman for an art contest for youth, she will also travel to Ottawa to represent "Baie St-Paul, Cultural Capital" with some other artists in 2007. In addition the donation of works she also collaborates with many fundraising events in support of the regional heritage and important organizations. Eventually her art works are inspired by herself , she transposes the symbolism and with great sensitivity, memories, experiences,and emotions...
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Artist: Natacha Audet Title: "La Jeune femme et les Lys" Medium: Mixed medium Size: 24''x24''
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Artist: Véronique Besançon
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Anne Drouin Visual Artist CANADA
annedrouin@hotmail.com www.annedrouin.com
Flowers, drawings and colors are her greatest passions, all together they become portraits of flowers with vibrant colors and pure line; the link is the ardor of the painter.
Artist: Anne Drouin Title: Bal en blanc Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 30" x 60"
She was born an artist and has turned to many forms of art over the years to give voice to her creativity expression. Finally in 1988, she offered the form that would be the outlet for her passion...oil painting, she was doing it since she was twelve years old. Pure color, harmony and beauty in all its forms, those are hallmarks of her work. Her muse is the flower and her palette is full of color, blend directly on the canvas to get the right shade of the real one. Capturing the heart of what she paints and probably yours.
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Hermine Visual Artist CANADA
info@herminart.com www.herminart.com
Hermine explores one of the most emotionally and symbolically charged disciplines in the plastic arts, the body. In her own way she recreates the human form. Straight-away she discovered the ideal dimensions in which to give her own sense of art and instinct full rein. To the point of believing that she had brought something new to the concept of realism,something at the intersection of the abstract and figurative, as if she were searching to release the elemental essence of her forms, that which lives outside of fashion and time. She has already become a formidable theoretician with all the requisite ability to successfully synthesize matter, object and emotion to create works with a strange beauty. Everything in her art works to serve a single reality: her passionate vision of being, filled with the shadow of death and the light of life.
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Artist: Hermine Title: L’ombre d’un doute Medium: Acrylic Size: 24" x 24"
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Michèle Kramer Visual Artist CANADA
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Michèle Kramer was born in Montreal. As a teenager, her artistic abilities were already showing. While studying drama, she was also a model at the Beaux-Arts of Montreal. In the early 1960’s, she worked briefly as an actress and, for many years, in communications and public relations, all the while keeping up with her painting. Then, in 1989, in Paris, her artistic career takes on a new dimension. Art workshops with Professor José Miguel of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, two exhibitions at the Canadian Embassy. Then, in 1995, back in Quebec, courses and workshops in drawing, watercolor and oil painting with well-known art teachers. From this point on, her artistic production flourishes. Solo and group exhibitions throughout Quebec, Europe and the United States, participation in dozens of symposiums and art meets. Several Prizes and Mentions. Her figurative style, bordering impressionism, becomes more and more defined as she is inspired by the beautiful landscapes of the Eastern Townships. Her favorite subject is undoubtedly flowers: in the garden, in the fields, in pots and planters. They enhance her creativity through their various shapes and colors.
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Artist: Michèle Kramer Title: Revelation Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 22" x 28"
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Siljaliisa Fine Artist FINLAND
I am surrounded by nature, which feels like being inside of art and poetry. “ When I see a white piece of paper or canvas, I am immediately surrounded by creative force, that has been true all my life. The world needs beauty and art, in colors I see hidden beauty, which I want to carry over and paint.� ( siljaliisa)
Artist: Siljaliisa Title: "Sunflower Season" Medium: Acrylic on Arches Size: 9" x 12"
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Artist: Le誰la Labelle Title: The World of Suzie Wong 1 Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Size: 28"x22"
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Marie Lauzon Visual Artist CANADA
Leelooart.ml @gmail.com www.leelooart.ca
The art is a place of immensely poetic space ! Marie Lauzon was born in Quebec, Canada. At 4 years old, Marie attented the class Dalcroze on the method Émile Jacque-Dalcroze to the musical pre-nursery school : preparatory music school of the UQAM. She took 3 years of method Kodàly classes ; an international method of relative solmisation. Then, she took the years of violin classes with Gyslain Bard and 2 years of piano with France David. Her last piano concert was in May 3rd, 1987 to Lachine. Afterward, Marie follow-up 3 years of classes of plastic arts with Françoise Miguel in the Cegep Lionel-Groulx. Marie has taken many art classes and got a certificate in plastic arts at UQAM (2006). She has participated to numerous artistic projects such as the «Symposium on the art to help». She exposed her works in São-Paulo, Piracicaba, Rio of Janeiro, Miami , Berlin and now in New York.
Artist: Marie Lauzon Title : The Moon of the Yin Medium : Acrylic and Mixed Media Size : 28'' X 22''1,5"
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Juh Leidl Visual Artist BRAZIL
www.juhleidl.com/
Born in Brazil, Juh Leidl at the age of 14 conquered the golden medal at the Childen’s Art Gallery in Zånka, Hungary. Studied Fine Arts at the State University of Campinas, Brazil, where she graduated with a major in painting and participated in group exhibitions promoted in the University Gallery and other galleries in Brazil. Worked at the Contemporary Art Museum of Campinas at the project Dali Monumental exhibition in 98 coordinated by Vania Lucia de Oliveira Carvalho. Post graduated at Escola Panamericana de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil (Pan-American School of Art of Sao Paulo). Her strong involvement with illustration and design over the last 20 years, results in paintings transiting between the figurative and the abstract, but always carrying a personality in colors and in compositions that are crystal clear to the eyes of the spectator. Her technique is divided in two segments: One with the development and execution in wood to the FAYA series, more plastic and with lighter and summarized forms, and the other explores techniques of digital manipulation, painting and drawing with crayon on canvas. Juh Leidl has debuted in international exhibitions after contacting with the art curator Leda Maria, who has discovered her work and ensured her participation in the exhibition Woman In Art 2013 at the Ward Nasse Gallery - NY, where she became a member with the series "Feel" in 2013.
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Artist: Juh Leidl Title: Fragmentos I - A Medium: Acrylic on plastic Size: 28" x28"
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Marie-Josée Leroux Sculptress CANADA
www.lerou.ca/ Lerou is a stone sculptor located in Montreal, Canada. Her works refers to a Jungian search of archetypal forces emerging from the unconscious and coming into action in our daily life. The characters that emerge from her hands represent mythical beings and timeless, archetypal forces, from our human history. In technical terms, Lerou is attached to the representation of the human body, not tinged with realism, but through round shapes and stylized lines, suggestions, mainly reflecting the soul. Selected by the Paris Fine Arts Society, she had the privilege to lead the Canadian delegation at their Annual Show in 2011. She was then awarded the "Prize of Honor SNBA Salon 2011" for her sculpture entitled "Aquarius”. She realized in 2012, a 10 tons monumental stone sculpture, named “The Guardian of the Water” for the City of Boisbriand, Québec, Canada. This sculpture is dedicated to the protection of drinkable water resources. She represented Canada at the Costa Rica International Stone Sculpture Symposium in Costa Rica, from Sept 17th to October 6th 2013, where she created Afrodita, a 2 meters stone sculpture. In 2015, she was invited to the 1st Zhishang sculpture symposium, in Jimo, China. She also made a monumental sculpture at Lac-Mégantic and StGeorges de Beauce, Québec, Canada. She is member of the International Sculpture Center (ISC), Manager for Canada, AIESM, member of R.A.A.V, vice-president of the board of the Quebec Sculpture Council, member ofASPM - stone sculptors and Atelier 213. 33
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Leda Maria Visual Artist USA/BRAZIL
www.ledamaria.com
She was born in Brazil, and hold degree in art history (MFA), at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado - FAAP , and Fine Arts degree at Faculdades Integradas Teresa D'Avila (BFA) - FATEA. Art History at Lorenzo Di Medici School in Florence - Italy, printmaking & Sculpture at The Art Student League of NY, and painting at Studio School of Drawing , Painting and Sculpture. She has been published in Several Magazines, newspapers, numerous art catalogs and art publications in Brazil as well in Europe, Asia and USA, and also achieved few awards for her own art.
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Artist: Leda Maria Title: Overflowing Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 20" x 24"
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Michelle Michaud Fine Artist CANADA
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A native of the Bas Saint-Laurent region in Québec, I was first drawn to a career in teaching. This led me to pursue studies in psychology, after which I practised for 20 years as a clinical psychologist in an institutional setting. I now maintain a part-time private practice in Montréal, where, among other things, I assist my clients in reaching their full potential. Though my love of art stems from childhood, it is my fascination for the soul and unconscious mind that drew me to painting. At first simply as a means of self-expression and healing, painting quickly became a way for me to connect with the best part of me, as well as touch the inner world of others. A self-taught artist for over fifteen years, I approach painting from an intuitive level, drawing my inspiration from within. Besides my formal training in visual arts, I have been painting at l’Atelier du geste for the past eight years. I enjoy the process of refining my techniques and improving my compositions, which are either purely abstract or a balance between figurative and abstract art. I have shown my work in solo and collective exhibitions, both at home and abroad. In 2015, the Academy Arts, Sciences and Letters of Paris awarded me a prize for all my work and the evolution of my career. Because I see painting as a source of life, it becomes even more necessary for me to exhibit my work; to share my feelings visually to help others grow and exist in full vital energy. 39
Artist: Michelle Michaud Title: Dépaysement Medium: Acrylic, Mixed media on Canvas Size: 20" x 20 "
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Born near Québec city, Canada, she is attracted by anything that is creative, artistic and innovative. She his graduated in industrial engineering technical, in therapist neuro-linguistic programming and one other in training of trainers. Self-taught artist, she painted for many years objects for an art shop and after, she operated her own. She contributes to Children's Wish and many other causes. She has exhibited in Québec, Canada, in New York, Miami and Dallas, USA, on Côte d’Azur in France and in Fombio, Piacenza, Milan Italy, Brazil and Berlin. Her comments were requesred by a painter for a art book in India and she was selected to be part of an art book in 2014, in Canada. She has participated in many national and international artistic exhibitions. She is in her element, connecting with her essence, an expression of her personality, paint the world her own way. « My inspiration and my passion guide my hand and my "brush stroke" is the witness. »
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Artist: Céline Pellerin
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Katia Politzer Visual artist​ BRAZIL
www.katiapolitzer.com
Katia Politzer was born in Rio de Janeiro, where she has lives and works. She is graduated from Escola de Belas Artes - UFRJ and has taken art classes at the Museum of Modern Art and EAV do Parque Lage, in Rio and at DeCordova Museum and the Northeastern University in the USA.
Artist: Katia Politzer Title: BaĂa de Guanabara Medium: Fusing Glass Sculpture Size: 6" x12 " x 14"
She participates in individual and group exhibitions. The most important events in Brazil being at Funarte, Centro Cultural dos Correios, Forte Copacabana and Jockey Club. The International exhibitions being at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris 2013; Spectrum Miami Art Show 2014; Artexpo New York 2015, 2nd Biennial of Palermo Italy 2015. She has been awarded prizes such as Guglielmo II and Sandro Botticelli in Italy.Katia has dedicated herself to the Art Glass Works for over twenty years, mainly using the Fusing technique to create sculptures and panels.
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Malu Rogers Visual Artist BRAZIL
rogers.malu@bol.com.br
Malu Rogers, was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1968, works in advertising and as a painter. She completed her courses in both:The Art Students League of New York and The Art Studio NY. Her art works seeks to question and understand the boundaries and origins of modern human behavior. Trough stares, expressions, makeup, excesses, judgements, failure, and the search for perfection, the artist paints an unpredictable criticism of human futility in its complex dimensions. In dialectic fashion, the artist's work encompasses the polarities between real and artificial in modern human behavior.
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Artist: Malu Rogers Title: I'm Ok Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 24" x 32"
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Luma Sanos Sculptress BRAZIL
www.LumaSanos.com LumaSanos@gmail.com
Artistically known as Luma Sanos. I am a sculptor since 1994. Born in Brazil in 1958, graduated in Physics in Rio de Janeiro. I've discovered my true passion for sculpture after joining Flory Menezes atelier, in Rio. I have been trying ever since to transpose into material all kinds of shapes,emotions and movement. Throughout the years I have been taking courses that increase my possibilities, always trying different material and techniques. Someone saw some of my work and said: it made me smile. That is exactly the purpose of my artwork, bring magic and fantasy to people's life. I currenty live in Curitiba and work in "Atelier de esculturas da Fundação Cultural do Parque São Lourenço" with the orientation of artist Elvo Damo and in my own atelier.
Artist: Luma Sanos Title : Beach Girl Medium: Paper Mache and Iron structure Size: 10" x 10"
I'm represented by Ward- Nasse Galery, NY. since 2011.
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Danielle Tremblay Visual Artist CANADA
tremblay.art@gmail.com www.tremblayart.ca
Danielle Tremblay views a blank canvas as she does any new experience, as an adventure. Her approach to art reflected a belief in freedom of true and uninhibited expression, exploration beyond the habitual, excavation of the self to prepare space for innovation. The process of painting serves as a springboard. She begins by tossing colour onto the white space, spreading , rotating the canvas, finding its orientation, allowing a sensation to evolve, ‘listening’ to the musicality that emerges from the mayhem of her random brushstrokes. Life experiences, random encounters, souls united by affairs of the heart, all linked by colour. And it is a magical amalgamation of brushstroke, paint texture, and colour that pulls together these experiences, giving life to their similarities and eccentricities. Danielle Tremblay attended Frère Jérôme’s - colleague of noted Canadian artist, Borduas - studio for the 25 years, during which time she completed a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree at Montreal’s Concordia University. She now attends Atelier du Geste in Montreal, run by artist Andrée Bonard, a studio with a similar mission to that of Frère Jérôme’s as well as her: develop the individual, inherent creative potential. She has had several solo and group exhibitions.
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Title : Arthur Medium : Acrylic on paper mounted on masonite Size: 25’’ x19’’
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Ana Ulate Herrera​ Sculptress COSTA RICA
Born in Santo Domingo de Heredia, in Costa Rica, she grew up in the port of Golfito, after several years she moved to the capital, to begin studies at the Liceo of Heredia province of san jose, from very young intended to be a sculptor, beginning in drawing and painting in the artist's home in San Jose, the capital, in 1990, takes the high school, in honor of Fine Arts at the Intercontinental University of the Arts in year 2000. Starts grade tests for the Bachelor of Fine Arts in fine arts at the University of Sciences and Arts since 2015 and currently, then continued studies at the National Workshop of Engraving 2008-2013 and carrying studies of Universal Literature, at the University of Costa Rica, from 2010-2012. As her sculptures, are always accompanied with a poem, now it belongs to the AIESM, International Association for Monumental sculpture, based in Rome, Italy. Ana has, artistic experience as a sculptor with various materials, marble, wood, stone, bronze, resin and metal. In addition, as oil paint, acrylic and watercolor, she has national awards, has 4 biennials since 2000 until 2015, 45 symposia and 50 exhibitions, 6 public works and works abroad in Canada, Ecuador, California, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Chicago, 30 works in private collections in Costa Rica.
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Artist: Ana Ulate Herrera​ Title: Encuentro de dos culturas Medium: Stone sculpture
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Yaki Yaskvloski was born in Argentina. Her main subjects are artistic nudes and documentary photography, working also as a portrait photographer. Along her career, she obtained almost 40 awards all over the world. Yaki participated in 24 Solo exhibits. Her art works have been on display in several group exhibitions, festivals and itinerary shows, all over Latin America as well in Europe and United States.
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Sexual Slavery Victims Sexual slavery may involve single-owner sexual slavery, ritual slavery associated with certain religious practices, or forced prostitution. Concubinage was a traditional form of sexual slavery in many cultures, in which women spent their lives in sexual servitude. The victims experience various stages of degradation and physical and psychological torture. Victims are often deprived of food and sleep, are unable to move about freely, and are physically tortured.
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Women in Art 2016 Exhibition: Ward-Nasse Gallery 178 Prince Street , NY - NY 10012 Opening reception : March 05th from 4-7pm Show Dates: March 01st-30th, 2016 Communications Manager: Leda Maria Catalog : Front and Back cover made by: Anne Edla & Leda Maria Front cover pictures : Natacha Audet • Véronique Besançon • Mariah Campolina • Luz Castañeda •Anne Drouin • Nathalie Frenière • Lígiagogh • Hermine • Maria João • Michèle Kramer • Siljaliisa • Leïla Labelle • Luce Lamoureux • Marie Lauzon • Chantal Leblanc • Juh Leidl • MarieJosée Leroux • Eva Lewarne • Leda Maria • Michelle Michaud • Céline Pellerin • Katia Politzer • Malu Rogers • Luma Sanos • Danielle Tremblay • Ana Ulate •Carmen Vallée • Marthe Villeneuve • Yaki Yaskvloski • Steffie Wallace• Design Production: Anne Edla & Leda Maria Editor & Publisher: Leda Maria Copyright©2016. The Women in Art Project All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced in any way without written permission from the publisher. All rights in each art work reproduced herein are retained by the artists. www.wardnasse.com
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