2021 Faculty Art Exhibition - Audra Graziano
AUDRA GRAZIANO
Toora-Loora-Li, 2017
Oil on Canvas
48 x 48 inches
As I Lay Sleeping, 2017
Oil on Canvas
38 x 48 inches
Other End of the Line, 2017
Oil on Canvas
40 x 40 inches
My work grows from an interest in how experiences layer upon each other over the course time to form a collective journey. By overlapping drawings of multiple forms on a single canvas, I find a connection with the liminal space that exists when viewing one configuration through another. The work begins to come together with the passage from one arrangement to the next. Through a build up, layering and removal of paint, the space in the work becomes as much about what is visible as what is no longer apparent, and what is there as what has been taken away. For me, it is a process that serves as metaphor for memory, time, and place.
Audra Graziano (b. 1981, Massachusetts) is an abstract painter and educator based in Los Angeles, California. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, including The San Diego Art Institute, University of Arizona Museum of Art, the Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, and galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Berlin. She received her MFA from California State University Long Beach in 2014, graduating with the College of the Arts Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity Award. She earned her BFA from Pratt Institute in 2003, credited with the Pratt Institute Fine Art Award for Outstanding Merit in Painting and the Pratt Circle Award for Academic Achievement. She currently serves as full time faculty in the Fine Arts Division at Cerritos College.
Audra Graziano began teaching at Cerritos College in 2017, including ART110 (Freehand Drawing), ART112/213/214 (Life Drawing), ART130A/130B (Fundamentals of Painting), ART136 (Painting for Art Majors), and ART231 (Intermediate Painting).
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