FINE ARTS RESUME Born in California, Donna majored in Fine Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1964 to 1967, and then studied at various art institutions and ateliers in Mexico, New York and Paris. From 1967 until today, Donna has exhibited her paintings, drawings and graphic art in numerous galleries in New York, on the East Coast and in Paris, France, where her works have been purchased for both private and public collections. She received a grant from the National Endowment on the Arts for one of her projects and a number of prestigious awards. Whether her work is abstract or figurative, grapes, women or muses, painting or lithography, Donna's artistic aspirations have always been the same: the search for beauty and poetry or meaning, communicated through gesture, colour, light and form.
TRAINING 2009 et 11 DREAMWEAVER / FLASH – Next Formation, Paris XII 2005 COMPUTER GRAPHICS – (Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark Express) – ESAM, Paris XVII 2002 – 4 LITHOGRAPHY – Beaux-arts de Glacière, Paris XIII 1998 – 99 ENGRAVING AND TYPOGRAPHY – Duperré, ESSA, Paris IV ENGRAVING – Beaux-arts de Montparnasse, Paris XIV 1966 Fine Art - INSTITUTO DEL ARTÉ – San Miguel del Allende, Mexique 1964 – 67 Fine Art – UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA , LOS ANGELES, CA EXHIBITIONS - INDIVIDUEL 2012 FRANCE LOISIRS –Paris XV – Paintings and giclées and ATELIERS PORTES OUVERTES - Anversauxabbesse – Paris XVIII – Paintings and giclées 2011 CHEZ EUGENE – Paris VIII - Paintings and Lithographs 2005 Le K SAINT GERMAIN – Paris VI – Paintings, drawings and giclées 2004 – 5 L’ATELIER TURQUOISE – Garches –Paintings 2004 A L’AMI PIERRE, Paris XII - Paintings, drawings and lithographs 2003 L’ŒNOTHÈQUE – Paris VIII - Paintings, drawings 2002 ARTISTS DANS LA RUE - Versailles – Paintings, drawings / FRANCE LOISIRS - Paris XV - Paintings and lithographs 2000 – 4 ATELIERS PORTES OUVERTES, FÊTE DES VENDANGES à Montmartre, Paris XVIII - Paintings, drawings and lithographs 1983 - 92 ATELIER PORTE OUVERTE – 13, rue de Sévigné, Paris IV – Paintings, drawings 1974 ARTIST’S COOP – Woodstock, NY – Drawings 1970 – 74 WOODSTOCK ARTIST’S ASSOCIATION – Woodstock, NY – Drawings
EXHIBITIONS – GROUP 2012 ------- ESPACE PIERRE CARDIN- Paris VIII - Paintings and giclées 2008 - 9 ATELIERS PORTES OUVERTES, FËTE DES VENDANGES à Montmartre, Paris XVIII 2006 – 7 A L’AMI PIERRE, Paris XII - Paintings, drawings and lithographs / LES ARTISTES DU CHESNAY - 43° Salon, Le Chesnay - Paintings 2004 – 5 ESPACE LUCRÈCE – Paris XVII - Small oil paintings 2003 ESPACE LUCRÈCE - Paris XVII – Drawings / MARCHÉ DE L’ART À LA BASTILLE – « Première Expo » - Paintings, drawings and Lithographs CONNOISSEUR’S GALLERY - Paris VI – Drawings 2000 – 4 ATELIERS PORTES OUVERTES, FÊTE DES VENDANGES à Montmartre, Paris XVIII - Paintings, drawings and lithographs 1999 – 2003 Ateliers des Beaux-arts à Montparnasse et Glacière, Paris –Engravings, lithos 1983 SALON DE LA JEUNE PEINTURE – GRAND PALAIS, Paris -Drawings 1981 GALERIE FRAC – Paris XVIII – TROIS PERSONNES – Drawings 1980 GALERIE FRAC – Paris XVIII – Drawings 1974 ARTIST’S COOP – Woodstock, NY - TROIS PERSONNES – Drawings / BERKSHIRE MUSEUM – Berkshire, Massachusetts - Drawings / ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS – Hartford, Connecticut - Drawings 1973 MARIST COLLEGE – Poughkeepsie, NY – DEUX PERSONNES - Drawings / ANDALUSIA ART GALLERY – New York City, NY – DEUX PERSONNES - Drawings BERKSHIRE MUSEUM – Berkshire, Massachusetts - Drawings / POLARI GALLERY – Woodstock, NY – DEUX PERSONNES - Drawings 1972 – 73 MUNSON WILLIAM PROCTOR MUSEUM – Woodstock, NY - Drawings / POLARI GALLERY – Woodstock, NY - Drawings 1970 – 74 WOODSTOCK ARTIST’S ASSOCIATION – Woodstock, NY - Drawings
COLLECTIONS LINCOLN FIRST BANK OF ROCHESTER (Collection Upstate Art, NY) Mme. & M. Donald FURTH, Eileen CRAMER, Rosemarie SMITH, Carole UEHARA, Steve VAGLE, Michael LEVINE, M. GRUENBERG, Mme. & M. Maubourguet, Danielle LAGARDE, Marcel BARCILON, Chantal TERJAN, Ramzi AYACHE, Virginia LEPAGE, Mme. & M. CAMP, Monique AMAUDRY et Michael JORDAN Mme. & M. DEGRYSE, CLARTÉ, M.QUINTADE, M. ZÉCRI, Mme. & M. DORMART, Agnès de MOUSSAC, Joëlle JOURZA, Gilles DUMENIL, Arlette KEMPF, Thomas FORSTENZER, Marie-Louise KRAËMER, Yvonne BAUDRY-MONNIER, F. AEBERHARD, Olivier MEURVILLE, Mme. & M. IGUAL, et C. CORLOMB.........
COMMISSIONS 2001 EDITION «12 Raisins – Cartes Postales » - Mme. Carole ALLEN, Paris, France 1974 GRAVURE «Parables of Sunlight », Woodstock Artist Assoc. Membership Print, NY
HONORS 1973 Woodstock Artists Association Christmas Award, NY 1972 William S. Rubin Award – WAA, NY
GRANTS 1974 ARTISTS IN THE SCHOOLS PROGRAM - National Endowment on the Arts, NY |