Born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1954

 

Education and Training

 

1972-1974

Drawing and Painting techniques

Casa Municipal de la Juventud (Youth Municipal House), Caracas

1974-1979

BA in Architecture

Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning)

Universidad Central de Venezuela (Central University of Venezuela), Caracas

1979-1983

Special Drawing Workshop taught by the artista Edgar Sanchez

Escuela de Artes Plásticas Cristóbal Rojas (School of Visual Arts Cristobal Rojas), Caracas

The artist works as art restorer for the architectural heritage collection at the Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela (National Library of Venezuela), Caracas

After passing several stays in Paris, France, the artist return to Caracas

1983-1985

Escuela de Artes Graficas, CEGRA (Center of Studies for the Graphic Arts), Caracas

Member of the Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados, TAGA (Associated Graphic Artists of Venezuela), Caracas

1988

Lives in Paris

Works with stained-glass window craftsmen André Ropion and Guy Meliava

1991

Returns to Caracas

Carlotta was born

1994

Rodrigo was born

1998-2004

A new stay in Paris introduces the artist into the Louvre Museum¿s workshop where she courses in

1999

History, implementation and application of the stained-glass window technique and,

2001

The fresco painting technique and the Roman Fresco

2005

New Program of the French National Education. Preparation for the Art history education in the primary and secondary schooling. Sao Paulo, Brasil

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

1973-1974

Substitute teacher Casa Municipal de la Juventud (Youth Municipal House), Caracas

1976-1978

Propaedeutic in Computer applied science to Architecture

Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning)

Universidad Central de Venezuela, (Central University of Venezuela), Caracas

1998

Benevolent Teacher of Visual Arts and Kitchen courses

Colegio Francia (College France), French section, Caracas

2004-2013

Private Courses of Visual Expression, Caracas

Professor of Visual Arts, Lycée Français (French lyceum), Caracas

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

1985

La sagrada estirpe de tres mujeres (The sacred lineage of three women)

Galería Universitaria de Arte (University Art Gallery)

Universidad Central de Venezuela (Central University of Venezuela), Caracas.

 

1986

La sagrada estirpe de tres mujeres (The sacred lineage of three women)

Sin Limite Gallery, San Cristobal, Venezuela

 

1987

4 Young Venezuelan Draftsmen (travelling exhibition)

Consulado General de Venezuela (Consulate General of Venezuela in the Unite States), New York

Bolivar Hall, Londres

Centro de Arte Internacionale (International Art Center), Roma

 

1991

Bodies, Images and Fantasies

Bolivar Hall, Londres

1994

Venezuela à Paris

Le Latina Gallery, Paris

 

2004

Querencias (Fondness)

Arte Altamira Suites Galleries, Caracas

 

2006

Las redes de la creación (The Networks of Creation)

Instalación entorno al XIII Festival ATEMPO (XIII Festival ATEMPO, Collateral installation)

Hall Centro Cultural Corpbanca (Corpbanca Hall Cultural Center), Caracas

 

2007

Iluminaciones (Illuminations)

Alianza Francesa (Alliance Française), Chacaito, Caracas

 

2008

Bosques personales (Personal Forests)

Díaz Mancini Gallery, La Castellana, Caracas

 

2009

Encuentros (Meetings)

Díaz Mancini Gallery, La Castellana, Caracas

FIA2009, Tamanaco Intercontinental Hotel, Caracas

 

2010

FIA2010, Tamanaco Intercontinental Hotel, Caracas

 

2011

Naturaleza Imaginada (Imagined nature), BBVA Fondation Center, Caracas

FIA2011, Tamanaco Intercontinental Hotel, Caracas

Pétalos Ancestrales (Ancestral petals), Art et Miss Gallery, Paris

 

2012

Caóticos y Abismales (Chaotic and Abysmal), French College Fondation, Caracas.

FIA2012, Tamanaco Intercontinental Hotel, Caracas

 

2013

MAGNA MATER…transitos continuos (MAGNA MATER…continuos transits),

Arts Space Gallery, Altamira Suites Hotel, Caracas.

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

Participates in numerous collective exhibitions and salons both nationally and internationally since 1972

 

 

 

Awards and Recognitions

 

1982

Honorable Mention

Bienal de Dibujo y Pintura de Cagua (Biennial of Drawing and Painting of Cagua), Venezuela

 

1983

Emilio Boggio Drawing Prize

XLI Salon Arturo Michelena, Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela

 

1984

Mention

III Bienal de Miniaturas Graficas (III Biennial of Graphics Miniatures),

Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados, TAGA (Associated Graphic Artists of Venezuela), Caracas, Venezuela

2008

Mention

XIII Bienal de Miniaturas Graficas (III Biennial of Graphics Miniatures),

Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados, TAGA (Associated Graphic Artists of Venezuela), Caracas, Venezuela.

 

 

Represented by

 

Fundarte, Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados (TAGA)(Associated Graphic Artists of Venezuela), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art), Instituto Autónomo Biblioteca Nacional (National Autonomous Library Institute), Carton de Venezuela, Instituto Nacional de Hipódromos (National Race Track), Galería de Arte Nacional (National Art Gallery), Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Museo Carmelo Fernández (Carmelo Fernandez Museum), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Maracay Mario Abreu (MACMA) (Mario Abreu Museum of Contemporary Art of Maracay), Museo de Arte Popular de Petare (Folk Art Museum of Petare), Fundación del Niño (Children's Foundation), Institito Nacional de la Cultura de Puerto Rico (National Institute of Puerto Rican Culture), BBVA Fondation, French College Fondation, Caracas and numerous private collections in Venezuela, Latin America, Europe and United States.

 

Selected Bibliography

 

Antologia del Cuento Venezolano (Antology of the Venezuelan Tale), Jose Balza, 2012

Espectáculo intimo (Intimate spectacle), Rafaela Bimbo Poems, 2010

Meetings exhibition, catalog. 2009

Illumination exhibition catalog. 2007

Revista Arte Plural (Arte Plural magazine), No.7 and 11

Revista Imagen (Imagen Magazine), September 1986

 

Interview

 

Vale Television, Magna Mater exhibition, Caracas.

2013

El Nacional newspaper, Imagined Nature exhibition

2011

El Universal Newspaper, Personal Forests exhibition

2008

El Universal Newspaper, exhibition Illuminations, French Alliance, Chacaito, Caracas

2007

Free Format by Nabor Zambrano. XIII Festival Atempo and Networks of Creation.

2006

 

Ponencias

Conversation half-closed to the exhibition Meetings, Diaz Mancini Gallery, dictated by Peran Ermini

2009

 

Forum: Women in Art

University Art Gallery

Universidad Central de Venezuela (Central University of Venezuela), Caracas

1985

 

 

Associations 

 

Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados TAGA (Associated Graphic Artists of Venezuela)

Asociación de Artistas Plásticos Venezolanos AVAP (Association of Venezuelan Plastic Artist)

Colegio De Ingenieros de Venezuela CIV (College of Engineers of Venezuela)

Colegio d Arquitectos de Venezuela CAV (College of Architects of Venezuela)

 

Comments

 

¿The pigment replies to itself, but also welcomes the interventions of the water, fingers, until produce unexpected effects of tactile and volume.¿

 

¿Something drags us toward what delves, toward the abyss: not the deep of rich hues, but the inner lighting of the flowers, which float to split out from that powerful call, already known by them.¿

 

Jose Balza

 

 

"The identity of this painting is not a national or regional identity, but libidinal. It is a painting closely eroticizes and endearing. It is not subject to class struggle, nor depends on the History. Rather, this painting subtracts us from this time sowing of odium."

 

Peran Ermini.

 

"Mondrian is realistic in its way. Elizabeth comes to realism ¿not only to the one who dreams and envisages other world different from our- but which reveals the contemporary, the critic of the moment. After all, dreaming for a better horizon and knowledge of what happens to us now are two sides of the same coin."

 

Ida Gramcko.

 

 

"She lets see her interest in the organic of the plastic form, in the forms and the joints, in the clarities and the corners, in the centers and the deeps. There is what it beats, tense, and delves."

 

Maria Elena Ramos

 

 

"What once took place resounds forever for ever and ever."

"Nothing prevents the look to penetrate beyond appearance, nothing inhibits the sensation."

 

Daniel Louvet

 

 

She falls squarely within the organic, interested in the plasticity of the body from which arise the pace and tension of the same picture."

 

Juan Calzadilla