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Please join us for our Plunge Into The Arts Artist Open House featuring the work of Cori Carroll and Maria Alejandra Castro Wednesday, May 15th at 6:00pm at Plunge Beach Resort.Registration and your first glass of wine are complimentary!
Parking is $5 cash per vehicle, please pay at the Front Desk upon arrival.
About Cori Carroll and Maria Alejandra Castro:
About Cori: Cori Carroll is an artist of painting and photography, based in Pompano Beach, Florida. Cori has always been a fan of the beautiful Florida sky, the tropical colors of Broward County, and the water and sunlight surrounding everything in South Florida. She captures lots of beach scenes with her camera and gets busy with canvas and paint to interpret the scenes and feelings of her environment. Having painted one semester in high school, she is thrilled to have connected with art again. Cori was a student of Pompano Beach artist and teacher Jeremy Lytle. Her work is seen regularly at the Broward Art Guild and at Piper Gallery and Studio. Cori's paintings and photographs include seascapes, florals and abstracts. Many of these have been included in monthly online art exhibits at LightSpaceTime.art Her painting "Two Sails" was awarded first place overall in a Seascape exhibition at this online gallery.
About Maria (In her own words): I'm a Plastic artist and professional graphic designer born in Bogotá, Colombia, graduated with a Master degree in Fine Arts from the “Universidad Nacional de Colombia” (Bogotá) in 1995 and Graphic Design degree at the “Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano” (Bogotá) 1989.
I have twenty two years of experience and Knowledge in practical workshops of oil painting (landscapes and portraits) ceramic and Silk-screen printing. Also on the conception and development of ideas that involve the realization of digital images with photography and custom work in the corporate industry using programs like Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign.
Focused in teaching Silk-screen printing, ceramic, color and perspective, expression, visual education and Art history. Teacher of art workshops for children.
Art for me is a way of expression based on everyday experience and common memory, always with an emotional, intimate and inner component. Painting, photography and drawing are resources I use during the process, where the only focus is not just the final object.
These means or techniques become the tools to give meaning, not forget the experience and give an approximation to it.
Then the memory releases, reconstructs and recreates a feeling, an event, perhaps losing details or emphasizing them in the last memory, adding or taking out elements to reconstruct the meaning, all of this with a content of humor and reflection on the experience, where daily life becomes a part of the personal psychological puzzle that is open to generate different connections to whomever confronts the work as a spectator and is identified or recreates other stories.
In the beginning of my artistic experience I worked on an experimental basis with different materials as tools to accomplish a formal and thematic unity, used painting, ceramics, photography, printmaking, and recovered materials in this process.
I am currently working in photography, painting, drawing, on some occasions manipulating the images with digital tools and then capturing them in the traditional way with oil painting or acrylic on canvas.
To me the experience of creating the entire symbolic and meaning process is as important as digital manipulation and the ancient craft of painting.
The theme in my work has always had a constant:
Reflections on the birth and the death; the nature; the feminine and the masculine; the new and the old; destruction and construction; the game and the cyclical; space, time and waiting, worlds and parallel times, what was said and the unspoken, the physical and what not you can’t see, the pain and humor (pain seen from a non-dramatic point of view) because my interest is not to create a distressed language if not rather fun, demonstrating the ephemeral, like life itself.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
4660 El Mar Dr, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL, United States, Florida 33308, 4660 El Mar Dr, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308-3618, United States,Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida
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