First Fridays    
                                      Featuring: Gloria de los Santos

                Friday, June 4th, 5pm-8pm, Spokane First Friday Art Walk

                       Music by: Suhanna Hamilton & Marshall McLean

      Hors d'oeuvres & Beverages provided by the multi-talented Staff of

                                            Gina's Design Corner

   Glori de los Santos work will be hanging at Gina's Design Corner until June 30th

                                          Gloria de los Santos

                                                gloriadelossantos.com

                                                               Email: gloriart@hughes.net

• Professional artist, graphic designer and photographer.
• Attended the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
• B.A. in Communications Design from University of Illinois at Chicago
• Represented by Artemisia Gallery in Chicago, Illinois
• Represented by Art@Work program, Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington
• Juried member of ShopTheFrontier.org

 

BIOGRAPHY

Currently, Gloria de los Santos’ work is represented at Northeast Washington Arts Council Gallery in
Colville, WA.

She was selected as the Pend Oreille Valley Lavender Festival Poster Artist in 2008.

In March, 2006, two of her encaustic paintings, “Winning the Lottery” and “Green Day” were selected for the national juried exhibit at BoiseStateUniversity in Boise, Idaho. The show was included with the “Women’s History Month”, at the university. Gloria’s work was one of 44 artists who submitted 142 entries. The jurors selected 35 works by 26 artists for the exhibition.

In 2005, her artwork was included in the group exhibit, “People, Places, and Perceptions, Contemporary Latino Art in the Northwest”, at the MaryhillMuseum, in Goldendale, Washington, from July 16 – November 15^th, 2005. Selected as only 7 artists out of a field of 240, it was a great honor to be included in this historic show.

Also in 2005, she began “North Country Artist Trails” an open artists’ studio tour in NE Washington. She organized 14 artists’ galleries and studios, designed the brochure and web site, www.northcountryartisttrails.com.

Her artwork is in private collections in Bermuda, Canada, England and the U.S. She has exhibited her work in Chicago, Colorado, Bermuda, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New YorkState.

Her career began in Bermuda, where she worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for the local newspaper. From there, she worked in advertising agencies and publishing houses in Chicago and Santa Monica, CA, and ran her own graphic design and advertising studio in Falls Village, Connecticut. While in Chicago, she served as a judge for Montgomery Ward’s employee art exhibit. She was the curator for “Brave New Pixels”, an annual computer-generated art show exhibited under the auspices of the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics, (ACM SIGGRAPH) the oldest international computer organization. While living in London, England she was employed as a graphic designer for a large pharmaceutical concern. Her career came full circle when she moved to Los Angeles and began working in special effects for the entertainment industry. Her filmography includes: “Titanic”, “Hollowman”, “Star Trek: Insurrection” and the “Mists of Avalon”, which debuted on the TNT network in July, 2002.

Her parallel career as an arts instructor includes employment with The American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois and UCLA extension where she taught in the Film and Entertainment Dept.

Gloria is the former director of Colville Arts Foundation (now Northeast Washington Arts Council). Colville Arts Foundation is a 501 {c} 3 publicly supported non-profit organization.

GRAPHIC DESIGN
A professional graphic designer and photographer, Gloria runs a graphic design company specializing in branding, marketing, and identity systems. She has over twenty years experience in graphic design. She has worked on major accounts such as Honda, Aetna Health Care Systems, and others. She has experience in the entertainment industry, having worked as a digital artist for films such as: “Titanic”, “The X-Files Movie”, and “Inspector Gadget”.  Conversant in FrontPage web design, Microsoft Office Products, QuarkXpress, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign. Full Service advertising agency, media placement and consultation.

STATEMENT

 My artwork is very personal and is informed by the environment in which I currently live. I strive always to create and express myself without reservation. Photography, painting, encaustics, whatever medium I find myself working in, I am drawn to capturing the human experience. The body as landscape, or the flowers that grace my garden, these are all elements that infiltrate my art. Capturing the loneliness of a landscape with a photograph or capturing on canvas the portrait of a girl, these are all things worthy of study.                              

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