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Christy Diniz Liffmann is a Brazilian-American, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She grew up in a family in which the arts were not only appreciated but practiced. This culturally rich environment was furthered enhanced by her close contact and awareness of the natural beauty of that country’s fauna and flora.
She came to the United States to attend college in Texas. She married and moved to Louisiana with her husband. After her sons were of school age, she returned to her studies receiving her B.A. and M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University. It is here that she raised her family and established a career as a professional artist, teacher and formed a company that specialized in decorative painted finishes.
Extensive travels abroad have been a constant source for learning, inspiration and personal growth. Her experiences are woven into the images, creating pathways into memory-based places both near and far.
Diniz Liffmann is represented by galleries in Louisiana and Maryland where she currently resides with her husband. Her work is included in private and corporate collections in the United States, Brazil, France, Italy, China and Israel.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My paintings come out of a specific place that is shaped and colored by the persistence of memory. While the paintings convey an authentic sense of place, they allow the viewer to enter that special space between what is remembered and what is known.
Recollections of people, landscapes, situations, and sensations are initially captured on location in quick drawings or watercolors, only to be reinvented or reinterpreted at a later date. Impressions are edited, combined and often intensified to convey a personalized "memory-scape". Pattern, color, form, light and texture are important elements used to shape the places of memory.
| | | Resume and Selected Exhibits
E D U C A T I O N
1984-1981 Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1981-1979 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1969-1967 French and Spanish studies
Lamar University
Beaumont, Texas
1984 –1982 Graduate Assistant in the Photography Lab
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1984-1982 Louisiana State University, Leisure class instructor
Painting and Drawing
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1983-1984 Graduate Assistant, Instructor in Drawing
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
A W A R D S
2007 ●“Lallah Perry “Most Innovative” Award Mississippi Art Colony Juror: Holly Roberts, artist New Mexico (spring)
2006 ●“Hosford Fontaine – Best of Workshop” Award (body of work executed while at the Mississippi Art Colony) Juror: David Horton, Professor of Art Nicholls State University Thibodaux, Louisiana
2003 ●”Hosford Fontaine – Best of Workshop” Award (for a body of work
Executed which at the Mississippi Art Colony) Juror: Ron Porkrasso
2002 ●”Hosford Fontaine – Best of Workshop” Award (body of work executed while at the Mississippi Art Colony) Juror: Bob Bergusen, Professor of Art, Louisiana Tech University (Spring)
2002 ●”State of Louisiana, Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development Mini Grant” Recipient (October)
2001`●”Hosford Fontaine – Best of Workshop” Award (for a body of work executed while at the Mississippi Art Colony) Juror: Hugh Williams, Professor Emeritus, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama (Fall)
2001 ●”Honorable Mention” “Zigler Museum of Art Juried Competition Juror: Elmore Morgan, Jr., Professor Emeritus Louisiana State University at Lafayette
2000 ●”Purchase Award” Mississippi Art Colony (Fall)
R E S I D E N C I E S - W O R K S H O P S - C O N F E R E N C E S
● China Art Base, Shaanxi Province : Wan Ding, Professor at the Xian Art Institute “Chinese Brush Painting and Calligraphy”
● Italy: Hugh Williams, Professor Emeritus, Auburn University “Painting the Landscape”
● Biloxi, MS Paula Roland “Encaustic mono- printing"
● St. Francisville, LA Elmore Morgan, Jr. “Painting the Landscape”
● Mississippi Art Colony
2007-spring Holly Roberts, New Mexico artist
2006-fall David Horton, Prof of Art, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA
2005-spring Holly Roberts, New Mexico artist
2004-fall Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Prof of Art, UC Berkley, CA
2004-spring Joseph A. Smith, Prof of Fine Art, Pratt Institute author and illustrator
2003-spring Ron Pokrasso, Mixed-media artist, printmaker and teacher, Santa Fe, NM
2003-spring David Horton, Prof of Art, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA
2002-fall Johnnie Winona Ross, Artist, Santa Fe, NM
2001-fall Hugh Williams, Professor Emeritus, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
2000-fall Walter Crump, Commonwealth School, Boston, MA
2000-fall Robert Berguson, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
SELECTED EXHIBITS
U P C O M I N G EXHIBITIONS
2008 ●JURIED "ON THE EDGE -New Work in Encaustic" Montserrat College of Art Beverly, MA June 6 - July 3, 2008
2008 ● Solo "Landmarks : Watermarks” Orchard Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland Opening: Friday September 12, 2008
S O L O EXHIBITIONS
2007 ●“Silk Road” Baton Rouge Gallery – Center for Contemporary Art Baton Rouge, Louisiana (February)
● “Silk Road” Galerie Eclaireuse, Lafayette, Louisiana (March)
2005 ● “Following the Muse” Baton Rouge Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (August)
● “Following the Muse” NorDys Gallery Birmingham, Alabama (April)
● “Following the Muse” Galerie Eclaireuse Lafayette, Louisiana (May)
2002 ●“Italian Landscapes” Wyndy Morehead Fine Art New Orleans, Louisiana (September)
●“New Work – Christy Diniz Liffmann” Galerie Eclaireuse
Lafayette, Louisiana
2000 ●“New Work – Christy Diniz Liffmann” Gambles Red Bike
New Orleans, Louisiana (October)
Lafayette, Louisiana (August)
1997 ●“New Work: Christy Diniz Liffmann” Rita Durio Design
Lafayette, Louisiana (1997)
1991 ●“Perspectives: A Decade” Art Bar Baton Rouge, Louisiana
(October)
2 and 3 P E R S O N EXHIBITIONS
2004 ●”Christy Diniz Liffmann & Peter Walls” Galerie Eclaireuse
Lafayette, Louisiana (April)
2002 ●”C. Ellen Hart & Christy Diniz Liffmann” Gallery 3 Houston, Texas
(May)
●“Brazil and Beyond: Christy Diniz Liffmann - Paintings” “Photographs by Paulo Steven Diniz” Albert Blue Gallery Baton Rouge, Louisiana (May)
●”Christy Diniz Liffmann and Donna West” Ann Connelly Fine Art Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2001 ●“Beauty of Nature and Mankind: Christy Diniz Liffmann - Peg Weatherly - Nancy Flint” Zigler Museum Jennings, Louisiana June)
2000 ●“Christy Diniz Liffmann ● Peter Walls” Runnells Gallery East New Mexico University Portales, New Mexico (summer)
1997 ●“Christy Diniz Liffmann - Peter Walls” Unitarian Church Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1988 ●“Christy Diniz Liffmann” - “Billie Southwick Bourgeois”
Lemieux Gallery New Orleans, Louisiana
J U R I E D EXHIBITIONS
2007 ● “Mississippi Art Colony Travel Show” Juror: Holly Roberts, artist, New Mexico. (Spring)
2006 ●“The Art Melt 2006: A Fusion of Art, Jazz and Forum 35”. Jurors: Carolyn Bercier - Curator of Visual Arts Louisiana State Museum Gregory Elliott - Professor and Chairman of the Department of Art University of Texas at El Paso Curator: Susan Brunner - Brunner Gallery Shaw Center for the Arts Baton Rouge, Louisiana (July)
●“Mississippi Art Colony Travel Show” Juror: David Horton - professor of Art Nicholls State University Thibodaux, Louisiana
2004 ●“Baton Rouge Gallery – New Members Exhibit” Baton Rouge Gallery – Center for Contemporary Art Baton Rouge, Louisiana (April)
●“Mississippi Art Colony Travel Show” Juror: Mary Lovelace O’Neal Professor of Art University of California Berkeley, California
2002 ●“Louisiana Artists 2002: A Mixed Media Show” Juror: Kathleen Loe LSU Union Art Gallery Baton Rouge, Louisiana
●”20x20x20: A Compact Competition” LSU Union Art Gallery Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2001 ●“20x20x20: A Compact Competition” LSU Union Gallery
Jurors: Kelli Scott Kelly, Michael Howes, Katherine Scherer Baton Rouge, Louisiana ((September)
●“Mississippi Art Colony Travel Show” Juror: Hugh Williams, Professor Emeritus Auburn University (September)
2000 ●“20x20x20: A Compact Competition” LSU Union Gallery Jurors: Susan Brunner, Michael Daugherty, Addie Euba Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana (fall)
●“2000 Friends of the Zigler Museum Juried Art Competition” Juror: Elmore Morgan, Jr. Zigler Museum Jennings, Louisiana (October)
●“Mississippi Art Colony Travel Show” Juror: Walter Crump (September)
●“Mississippi Art Colony Travel Show” Juror: Robert Jenkins
Bergusen (April)
1997 ●“PROJECT HARMONY: Louisiana State Archives” Juror: Jack Beal Louisiana State Archives Baton Rouge, Louisiana
●“Fest for All” Louisiana Arts Council Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1992 ●“AMAZONIA: STILL GREEN – Let’s Save It ● Four Brazilian Artists” Harvard University Boston, Mass.
1990 ●“UPRIVER: The Artists of Baton Rouge” Downtown Gallery New Orleans,
1989 ●“The Sixty Juried Exhibition for Louisiana Women Artists” Juror: Lois Dodd LSU Union Art Gallery Louisiana State University
SELECTED I N V I T A T I O N A L and G R O U P EXHIBITIONS
2007 ● “Silent Night Auction and Holiday Show” – Gallery Artists Baton
Rouge Gallery – Center for Contemporary Art Baton Rouge, Louisiana (December)
● “Holiday Exhibit” – Gallery Artists Entre Nous Lafayette, Louisiana (December)
● “Kenophobia*- Designers’ Choice Exhibition” Baton Rouge Gallery – Center for Contemporary Art Baton Rouge, Louisiana (June)
2006 ● “Silent Night Auction & Group Holiday Exhibition” Baton Rouge Gallery– Center for Contemporary Art Baton Rouge, Louisiana (November)
● “Baton Rouge Gallery Artists” Nicholls State University Thibodaux, Louisiana (August)
● “Brunner Gallery – Gallery Artists” Shaw Center for the Arts Baton Rouge, Louisiana (July)
● “Green Being – Louisiana State University Art Museum Invitational” Louisiana State University Museum Shaw Center for the Arts Baton Rouge, Louisiana (August)
●“$199 Holiday Exhibit – Gallery Artists” NorDys Gallery
Birmingham, Alabama (December)
2005 ● “KATRINA Invitational” Baton Rouge Gallery – Center for Contemporary Art Baton Rouge, Louisiana (September)
● “KATRINA BENEFIT – Still Life” Ann Connelly Fine Art Baton Rouge, Louisiana (October)
● “Gimme Shelter”: Habitat for Humanity – KATRINA Benefit The Gourmet Gallery Easton, Maryland (September)
● “Silent Night Auction – Gallery Artists” Baton Rouge Gallery - Center for Contemporary Art Baton Rouge, Louisiana (November)
● “$199 Christmas Show – Gallery Artists” NorDys Gallery Birmingham, Alabama (December)
2004 ●”Baton Rouge Gallery – Christmas Exhibit” Baton Rouge Gallery –
Center for Contemporary Art Baton Rouge, Louisiana (November)
2003 ● “Improvisation” Nicholls State University Faculty Invitational Exhibit Ameen Art Gallery Thibodaux, Louisiana (March)
● “Louisiana State University: $99: An Unusual Art Show/Sale” Foster Gallery Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana (March)
2002 ●“Gallery Artists – Ann Connelly Fine Arts” Baton Rouge, Louisiana (May)
●“Winter Group Show – Gallery 3” Gallery 3 Houston, Texas (February)
2001 ●“SPIRIT OF AMERICA: Dedicated to the victims and families of the September 11th tragedy: Ann Connelly Fine Art” Baton Rouge, Louisiana (September)
1997 ●“Caffery Gallery Invitational” Baton Rouge, Louisiana
● “Baton Rouge Green ● Gala & Auction” Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1991 ●“Louisiana Environmental Action Network Invitational” Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, Louisiana
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