RESUME

CONTACT INFORMATION

Michele Krauss

E-mail:  Miguelaza@mac.com

Web:  WWW.MICHELEKRAUSS.COM

EDUCATION

ISAD (Milan, Italy) Architecture and Design

KLC (London, England) Interior Design

SUNY (New York, USA) Interior design

JULIA RUEDA (Madrid Spain) Art studies

ANNA PATALANO (CT, USA) Art studies

Statement

Passion. Power. Movement. These trigger my urge to paint, to define the intangible and infinite through color, texture, and lines. It might come from the light on a street corner in San Francisco, an image of a bullfighter in Spain, or the landscapes in an Australian film I’m watching in London.

Wherever I might be living, once the emotional trigger kindles an idea for a painting, it can simmer in my mind for a few hours, or years, before the right moment comes to put it on raw canvas. With my eyes closed, I take my first brush stroke (all that intimidating white space!), which unleashes the captivating odyssey of what follows.

I have an irrepressible desire to pass onto canvas impressions, feelings, impulses and memories derived from the memory of the vast open scenery of my many trips, a source of constant inspiration and meditations on the world around me.

When I paint I become euphoric, electrified by the same feelings of passion and power that I experience in the color, light and texture of an abstract landscape. If I do not paint from my heart, and sense a feeling being transmitted as I paint, I’ll start over.

My abstract landscapes move through the distance and perspective between landmasses and the flow of air.

I am ultimately moved by the desire to create something tangible from what is not, to achieve a sense of the infinite.

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009   “Passion of Color” Arcadia Gallery, Old Greenwich, CT, USA (Mar-Apr )

2007 “Character” Images Gallery, Old Greenwich, CT, USA(Nov-Dec)

RECENT JURIED, INVITATIONAL and GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Carrousel Du Louvre, Paris France (Salon Art Shopping Fair)

2009 Museum of Estense Castle, Ferrara Italy (winner Premio Ercole D’Este)

2009  The Lore Degenstein Gallery of Susquehanna University, PA: National Figurative Drawing and Painting Juried Exhibition. Juror, Daniel Dallman- Professor of Art at Tyler School of Art, Temple University

2009 Museum of the Americas

2009  Juried Competition , Stamford Art Association “Faraway Places 2009”,(3rd place)

2009 Juried Annual Competition Flinn Gallery, juror George Rush, Yale School of Art Professor of Painting. “Left Brain/Right Brain”

2009 60th Annual Art of the Northeast Juried Competition and Exhibition (3rd place)

2009 Group Show at the Bendheim Gallery at The Greenwich Arts Council (May 2009)

2009 Annual Juried Exhibition, Gertrude White Gallery (Greenwich CT,April) “The Spirit of Youth”

2009 Premio San Valentino exhibit, (XII edition), ITALY.(winner Premio San Valentino 2009) (February)

2009Juried Inaugural Exhibit Art Raw Gallery New York Projects,Chelsea NY, USA (February)

2009  92nd Annual Juried Show Greenwich Art Society (2nd place)(February)

2009 Group exhibit,, Chelsea NY (February- March)

2008 Juried International Art Exhibition,at the Museum of the Estense Castle, Ferrara ITALY

2008Juried National Exhibit,”Small Wonders”Annapolis,Maryland USA(Nov)

2008 Flinn Gallery, Annual Exhibition (juried) , Greenwich, CT (July)

2008 Easton Art Council, Juried Art Show” Art In The House(May)

2008 Art Show at Engel & Volkers (May)

2008 Art Show for World Vision (Women of Vision),The Guest House Gallery (may)

2008 Annual Member Juried Spring Show, Gertrude White Gallery, (Greenwich CT,April 2-25)

2007 “Character” Images Gallery, Old Greenwich, CT, USA(Nov-Dec)

2007 Group Show, The Guest Residence, Riverside CT, USA

AWARDS

Premio Ercole D’Este, International Contemporary Art exhibit, Museum Estense Castle,Ferrara Italy

Work of the Month, awarded by Trevisan International Art (August 2009)for painting Warming Up

3rd place Juried Competition , Stamford Art Association “Faraway Places 2009”

Dagny A. Hultgreen Award, 92nd Annual Juried Show Greenwich Art Society (2nd place)Jurist: Paul Master- Karnik, former director of the The Cordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts (February 2009)

Premio San Valentino 2009 award, at the  Premio San Valentino exhibition (XII edition),Vico sul Gargano, ITALY ,

BIBLIOGRAPHY

TIA Newsletter Work of the Month, August 2009

Spain US Chamber of Commerce, May 2009 (news section)

May 7th 2009, Greenwich Time (The Arts)

March 23rd 2009, Greenwich Time (The Arts section )(see article)

March/April 2009 issue of Art Journal Italian ,Art Magazine (see article)

January 2009 issue of Art Journal ( Article by, Alberto Grossi) Italian Art Magazine

Fav.or.it , December 2008

Spain US Chamber of Commerce, Nov 2008

Town artists “Art in the House”, Greenwich Time,May 2008

Art inspired by Spanish culture, Greenwich Post,Dec,2007

RELATED  EXPERIENCE

2009”Art a la Carte” Evening Gallery talk at Silvermine (with artist Alex McFarlane,Edith Borrax-Morrison & Michele Krauss) Art curated by Douglas Dreishpoon.

2008 Art Show for World Vision (Women of Vision),”The Guest House Gallery”,CT,USA. Organization & Setting Up of exhibit

AFFILIATIONS

Active member, Greenwich Art Society

Active member, Greenwich Art Council

Art Journal,March/ April 2009 (Italian Art Magazine)

Self-taught dotted of a deep artistic passion, Michele Krauss-who has always refused to follow academic rules- proved irrepressible desire to pass on canvas impressions, feelings, impulses and memories derived from the memory of vast open scenery of South America but also that of her many trips, a source of constant inspiration and meditations on the world around her.

Her abstract landscapes capture our gaze, but still more to our emotions, aroused by the refined and harmonious chromatics compositions, structure and space that give depth and in such way defining her works. The artist feels at ease changing the wide range of shades that stand out and dialogue in the space of the canvas while the color - compiled by quick and light brushstrokes- takes on a vibrant texture, sometimes tangible, and evokes in our minds the vision of beautiful boundless scenery.

Her works, visual and emotional impact, in fact, recall with emphasis indelible memories, memories of places that are projected on the canvas, the viewer, while taking only one trace pounds in a long journey of color, rhythm and imagination.

A band of color painted over the horizon line now stylistic mark of her works and perhaps a sign of hope –outlines plans, space and color within the framework while the use of materials such as sand, powdery impasto, plaster and wax, materializes the distance and perspective between the heaven and earth giving a sense of infinity and movement.