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Barbara Kolo
kolohog@verizon.net
www.barbarakolo.com
Barbara Kolo was born and educated in New York. Having developed an appreciation for art from an early age, her interest in drawing and painting lead her to attend the High School of Art and Design, followed by the School of Visual Arts. She received her BFA from SVA in 1981.
During the 1980's Barbara built a career as an award-winning art director in creative advertising for films and television. It was this career that bought her to Los Angeles in 1989. As an independent freelance art director she worked directly with major film studios and design studios specializing in film advertising. In 1991 she accepted the position of Director of Print Advertising at Universal Studios.
Barbara's early interest in drawing and painting had never diminished throughout this period. During the early '90's, she followed the urge to develop her own personal artistic voice and began create her own works. Her drawings were soon being included in local and national group shows. Her focus slowly changed from commercial art to fine art.
Barbara moved with her husband to Paris, France in 2000, for a two year stay. There she rented an art studio by La Bastille. While in France, she exhibited her paintings in Paris and Marseilles.
The couple returned to Santa Monica in 2003 after an eight month stay on the East coast. Barbara has since re-established herself in the local art community.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 LAAA Gallery 825 “Following Feitelson” La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles (Group)
2009 Topanga Canyon Gallery, "Barbara Kolo Solo Show" Topanga, California
2009 LAAA Gallery 825 “Aurora” Los Angeles (Group)
2009 Off Rose Gallery, "Mixed Media” Venice, California (Group show)
2009 Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, Annenberg Community House, Sta Monica, CA (Group)
2009 Korean Cultural Center, "KCCLA 17th Annual Juried Show" Los Angeles, CA (Group)
2009 Jose Drudis Biada Art Gallery Mount Saint Mary's College, "Insight/Inside L.A.",
2009 Topanga Canyon Gallery, “2009 Topanga Canyon Gallery Juried Open” (Group)
2008 L.A. Cultural Affairs, LAX Terminal 1 "In the Abstract", Los Angeles, California (Group)
2008 Artists Space, “Night of 1000 Drawings, New York, New York
2008 Brand Library Art Galleries, “Circle in the Square”, Glendale, California (Group)
2008 Angels’ Ink, “Mixing Mediums”, San Pedro, California
2008 Topanga Canyon Gallery Juried Open, Topanga, CA
2008 Angels’ Ink, “Let There Be Light”, San Pedro, California (Group)
2007 Kanvas, “Paintings of Color and Light”, New York,(Solo Show)
2006 Topanga Canyon Gallery, “Natural Color”, Topanga, California (Solo Show)
2006 Artists’ Space, “Night of 1000 Drawings” New York, New York
2006 Off Rose Gallery, “Ebb & Flow” Venice, California (Group)
2006 TAG, “California Open Exhibition” juried by Laddie John Dill, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Bank of America, Pacific Palisades, California
2006 L.A. Art Exchange Auction, Santa Monica, California (Group)
2003 Off Rose Gallery, “ColorRhythms”, Venice, California (Solo)
2002 Pluralism, “Dessins & Peintures”, Paris, France (Solo)
2001 WICE, “Before and Paris”, Paris, France (Solo)
2000 Moorpark College, “Hibiscus: Black & White Series”, Moorpark, CA (Solo)
1999 Knickerbocker Gallery, “Flora: Inspiration, Subject, Metaphor”, New York, New York
1999 Brand Library Art Galleries, “The Black & White Series”, Glendale, California *
1998 University of California, Irvine, Treble Zone Gallery, “Hibiscus”, Irvine California
1996 Antioch University Los Angeles, “Recent Work”, Marina Del Rey, California
***** The venues above are selected from a much more comprehensive list from
almost 20 years of group and solo exhibitions.
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist