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The Artist with Liberty
#75: "Breaking Through"
Current and Upcoming Shows
"The 2006-2008 Liberty Series"
A Solo Public Exhibition of 24 Paintings
of the
Statue of Liberty as a Still Life
July 2-July 31, 2010
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, 2nd Floor
150 E.
San Fernando Street @ 4th Street
San Jose, CA 95112 #(408) 808-2000
www.sjlibrary.org
Open Monday-Saturday, 9am-6pm
and Sunday 1-5pm
Free Parking in 4th Street Garage weekends
and
in garage across the street from library M-F
1st Annual Art Exhibition,
Los Gatos Birdwatcher store
792 Blossom Hill Road, Los Gatos
(in the King's Court shopping center)
Sunday, August 15, 2010
12-4 pm
Come meet the artist, see her newest
bird painting & enjoy refreshments!
Laurie's work is also hanging at the
DMV and Los Gatos Birdwatcher
(formerly
Wild Bird Center), both in Los Gatos.
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Laurie Barna is a native northern Californian, who currently resides in the Almaden area of San Jose. As
a child, she knew that she had a God-given gift for drawing and later, took several Art classes in college while pursuing
a professional nursing degree. Her first experience with watercolor came in the fall of 1999, when she took a Los Gatos Recreation
Department class. It was love at first brushstroke!
In her second student show in the spring of 2001, her painting
of the Arc de Triomphe was selected by her peers as “Best of Show.” Several of her paintings have garnered
her “Artist of the Month” awards by her Los Gatos Art Association peers and her work has been juried into both
LGAA and Santa Clara Valley Watercolor Society member juried shows. “I love the challenge of painting with such
a versatile yet exacting medium and creating that certain ‘glow’ using color and value.” She has participated
in numerous group art shows and has also donated paintings to the Los Gatos Art Museum's annual Touch My HeArt fundraiser
and to the Wild Bird Center to motivate donors to give to the local wildlife education and rehabilitation center.
In 2006, she took the challenge of watercolor painting "Beyond the Obvious" and began painting the Statue of Liberty
as a still life and in series. She discovered that she is a content painter, and this series has given her an artistic voice
to communicate her strong feelings about Lady Liberty and America. She engages the viewer in a uniquely American dialogue
about the nature and experience of liberty, asking him or her to think...to question...and to remember. There is
a strong sense of both personal and national journey in her series, from Liberty #1: "The Beginning" (2006) to Liberty #101:
"Passing the Torch" (2009). The Liberty Series is complete, even though she STILL has ideas that remain unpainted.
Having painted 101 paintings of the Statue of Liberty, she is now confident in her ability to take any idea and "run
with it." "Popular Art is a celebration of the Image. Great Art is the celebration of an Idea." (Preston
Metcalf, Associate Curator of the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara) This is her Idea--the Liberty Series. Her
desire is to make this series available for public viewing as much as possible. Should you have any suggestions or contact
information for future appropriate public/civic/government venues in which to exhibit this series, please contact her.
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