|
|
|
|
Artist Statement:
Artist Statement for Lois
Di Cosola
all images are copyrighted c
by Lois DiCosola 2010
--all rights are reserved-no
image may be reproduced
without the written consent of
the artist.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
"The art of Lois DiCosola
becomes a unique window
through which can be seen the
magical...
Further Information
| |
Artist Exhibitions:
LOIS Di COSOLA
Born: Lois Bock, Brooklyn,
New York; January 23, 1935
Telephone: (516) 822-5753
E-Mail:
loisdicosola@yahoo.com
Education
1950-53 Museum of
Modern Art School, New York
City, New York, scholarship,
and
Prospect Heights High School,
Brooklyn, New York- Fine Arts
Diploma
1960
Attended New School, ...
Further Information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collections:
Museum of Modern Art,New York
City,USA; Library of
Congress,Washington D.C.;
Guild Hall
Museum,Easthampton,New
York,USA; and many public and
private collections
internationally....
Further Information
|
|
Commissions:
Coming Soon!
|
|
|
Reviews for Lois Di Cosola:
|
|
|
LOIS Di COSOLA
The art of Lois DiCosola becomes a unique window through which can be seen the magical visual poetry present in our environment. Each of her perceptions is a personal thumbprint, bringing biology and biography to our awareness-it is nature, properly seen, written with abstract configurations.
A mind rich in sensitivity, highly original and intelligent, she is always sophisticated in her aesthetic decisions, use of color, dynamic brushwork, superb draftsmanship, and inventive handling of textural surfaces- together with a rare capacity for subtle and economic design, she is moved to re- invent elegant pictorial forms.
Her portraits, while being expert in their physiognomic accuracy, are also remarkable for their projection of the unique temperaments of the personalities depicted. As well, her photographs and photo collages capture the mood and the motion of life- where each image becomes a meaningful homage to our world.
Saul Levine, from "The Art of Lois DiCosola"
LOIS Di COSOLA was born Lois Bock in Brooklyn, New York. She painted and drew from childhood on with a great passion, and nearing her fifteenth birthday, entered a professional art school, developing the skills that are central to the life of an artist, while also receiving a scholarship grant to the young people’s workshop at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan at the age of sixteen. Art Kane, then editor of Seventeen Magazine, selected her work to be the winner of the Seventeen magazine ‘It’s All Yours’ international competition in 1953, and in 1954 she received the 33rd Annual Art Director’s Club award in Editorial art for the same drawing. A graduate in Fine and Graphic Arts in January of 1953, she was already a published working artist in New York City, and the recipient of several national and international awards, including the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Medal for Fine Draftsmanship, and the Carnegie Fine Art Institute national printmaking award. She also holds a Bachelor of Professional Studies degree.
Early in her artistic career, Willem DeKooning expressed a great appreciation for her painting, and Harold Rosenberg, Adolph Gottlieb and Larry Rivers selected her paintings and drawings for special exhibitions at Guild Hall Museum in Easthampton in 1963 and 1964. She was also James Brooks’ selection for the Finch College Museum exhibition, ‘Artists Select‘, and has exhibited her work extensively over the years. Besides a great production of paintings and drawings, DiCosola has also made editions of etchings and lithographs at the Pratt Graphics Center and in the workshop of master printer Donn Steward, where she produced her Moonlight series of aquatint etchings. She has made unique artists books, is a fine photographer, and has made several short films- and is also known for her poetry, stories, and lucid writings on art. She has produced drawings for television- such as Sesame Street, and for publications like the Sesame Street Book of Puzzlers and Time Life books.
DiCosola was one of the twelve artists whose paintings were in the pioneer feminist exhibition, ‘X12’ in Manhattan, in January of 1970- her biography is listed in ‘Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975,’ and the Who’s Who publications. She is included in the Museum of Modern Art archives, the Museum of Women in the Arts archives in Washington D.C., the Guild Hall Museum permanent print collection and archives, Smithsonian archives, Sophia Smith collection, Smith College, the Italo Calvino memorial library archives, in Turin Italy, and in many other archives and collections internationally.
C-lois dicosola----
all rights reserved--
written permission required for reproduction of images-
e-mail: loisdicosola@yahoo.com
http://afonline.artistsspace.org/view_artist.php?aid=3599
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/l/loisd/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11326913@dN07/
art dealer; Aldona Gobuzas tel; 212 861 9318
|
|
contact artist
