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Christina
Debarry
Debarry is President Emeritus of the Pastel Society
of America 1998-2001. Listed in Who’s Who of
American Art, she is vice-president of the Allied
Artists of America, a member of the Catharine
Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Pen and Brush and the
Salmagundi Club 1991- 01, IAPS former board of
directors, Artist Fellowship, American Artist
Professional League (Fellow), Audubon Artist.
A
master pastelist, Debarry presents workshops and
demonstrations nationally and internationally. Her
workshops have taken her to a variety of locations
throughout the USA, as well as Canada, Mexico and
Giverny, France, where she was the featured artist,
Honoree 2006 - Art du Pastel en France.
As an
internationally recognized artist, Debarry was
invited to China as a guest of the Chinese
government to work with master Chinese artists in
1997. Her art has been included in numerous works in
print, with feature articles in pastel magazines
such as Pastel Artist International, the Pastel
Journal and several books.
Artist’s Statement:
A
lifelong passion for painting, gardening and travel has
led me to paint the floral still life and landscape. As
a painter, I react to the ever- shifting flow of light
that touches my subject matter, whether it is a floral
or a landscape. I am inspired by the vibrancy of
luscious colors that change with every new hour, day and
season. I like to explore the varied shapes, values of
color, textures and structures of the flowers before me
and apply the same sense of wonder to the spacious
vistas of my captured landscapes. In my work, I stress
the use of light and shadow, depth of color, line
quality, texture and form. As I paint my pastels, I
make use of interlacing strokes of pastel to create
layers of impressionistic broken color.
Works in Print:
Who’s Who
in American Art
2005 -
Pastel Highlights II, Weaving Colors with Crosshatching
reprint from America
Artist
Basic Landscape,
Stoking the Fires of Autumn,
Artist’s Magazine,
Basic
Landscape, Joys of Summer,
Artist’s Magazine
USA
Showcase, Pastel
Artist International,
Interview
with the artist,
Pastel Journal,
Pastel
Page: Weaving Color With Crosshatching,
American Artist.
BEST OF
PASTELS I and BEST OF PASTELS II Rockport Publishing
FLORAL
INSPIRATIONS ,
Rockport Publishing
BEST OF
FLORAL PAINTING, North Light Books
BEST OF
PASTELS, Rockport
Publishing
Contemporary Master Pastelists
‘94 Galerie Luminous, Taichung,
Taiwan,
Great American “ART WORKS” pastels –cover
illustration on the box of pastels
Exhibitions:
Butler
Institute of American Art, OH; Europastel exhibition in
Italy – Russia, Xi’an Academy Fine Art, China; Du
Pastel Exhibition, France, Luminous Gallery, Taiwan;
Hermitage Museum VA; Hammond Museum NY; The Morris
Museum NJ; Colorado History Museum CO; Woodstock School
of Art, NY; The Salmagundi Club NY; Pastel Society of
America, NY; Allied Artists of America NY; Pen And Brush
NY; Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art; Audubon Artists NY
Club; Knickerbockers Artists NY; American Artist
Professional League, NY; Hanson Gallery, TN;
Awards; ( recent )
Honoree 2006 Art du Pastel
en France, featured
artist in exhibition ,Giverney, France
The
Dianne B. Bernhard Gold Medal Award in Pastel
- $1000. Allied Artists of America at the
National Arts Club in NYC,
The
Gold Medal Art Spirit Foundation, Pastel Award
- $500. Audubon Artists. NYC
Distinguished Merit Award, NJAAPL
H K
Holbein Award, value $525. Pastel Society of
America,
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Pastel Award
Exhibitions:
Butler Institute of American Art, OH
“Journey’s End “exhibited
Dec. 04 (one of 7 selected from PSA Annual)
Colonel
George J Morales Memorial Award-CLWAC, NYC, 2
Philip Isenberg Award, Pen and Brush, NY. 3 Best in
show, Award of Excellence, Renee Foosaner Gallery;
First place for Pastel, Nabisco Gallery; Ada Rosario
Cerere Memorial Award, Pen and Brush, First in
Pastel Award, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club,
Broome Street Gallery; Claude Parson Memorial Award
for pastels at the AAPL Grand Exhibit; Pauline Wick
Award for Pastel, NJ AAPL Trump Purchase Award, PSA;
Canson Purchase Award, PSA Pastel award, CLWAC,
Salmagundi Art Club; Margaret Sussman Award, Pen and
Brush,
Juror of Selection – national exhibitions:
Pastel
Journal 2008 juror of Competition Awards floral and
still life
Salmagundi
Club, non- member exhibition
Pastel
Society of America, annual exhibition
Catherine
Lorillard Wolfe Art Club,
Allied
Artist of America,
Exhibition
Co-Chair for the Pastel Society of America / Butler
Institute of Art / Exhibition 2003
Cape Cod
Pastel Painters ….co- jury of selection with Dr Zona
Taiwan Art
Center/ Annual International Exhibition
Juror:
Salmagundi
Club, NYC; Degas Pastel Society, New Orleans; LA; Pastel
Society of Eastern Canada, Montreal, Canada; Lake
Country Pastel Society, MN; Connecticut Pastel Society,
CT and many local exhibitions. Cape Cod Pastel Painters,
juror of awards and many local exhibitions.
Formal Studies:
Newark
School of Fine Arts 3 yr certificate, New York
University BS Fine Art, & Art Ed Minor,
The Art Student League of New York, also private studio
classes and workshops.
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