Theodora Ilowitz

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Theodora Ilowitz has been a prolific creator of timeless art for the past five decades. She trained and showed her art among the leaders in New York with printmaker Delamonica, brush painter Shou Ping Liao, and sculptor Luis Montoya. She has had numerous one-person shows in New York and New Jersey galleries and museums and has shown in the Conejo Valley over the last decade.

Theodora moved to Southern California in 2000, from New York, via Florida. California has had a great influence on the artist especially in her choice of vibrant colors. She uses a wonderful technique which she calls “painting with rice paper” involving texture, color, transparencies, as well as the nuances of color as they are layered upon each other. Then, as a final coup, she embellishes the paintings with metallic highlights. The end result is an eye-catching, stunning and a totally fresh experience… not what one would expect from a woman who has been an artist for almost fifty years. Theodora has reached a point of culmination, where after years of study and years, the floodgates of creativity have burst open allowing her to “explode” and do whatever she wants to do. “When you reach a mature age you stop worrying, and you have the freedom to do what you love.”

Another area that has captured Theodora’s artistic creative passion is the use of clay to sculpt the images that she later casts in bronze. Her interest in bronze sculpting initially developed after working on over 25 different stones, from soapstone to marble, and was a natural progression into the next stage of her search for new challenges. Theodora has often said that “when one series of work comes to an end, a new one begins.”
One of her pieces, a ballerina, was inspired by memories of her daughter, Rozanna who was an accomplished ballet dancer. The piece is a very stylized, the pose classical. The figure is long and leggy, as every ballerina wishes to be. One can see the influence of her paintings and prints, which have an elegant flow, in the contours of the garment in her modern dancer. In addition, the colors used in her previous work have had a bold influence in the patina of the dancer’s costume.

A well known New York Times critic has praised her work as follows, “Theodora Ilowitz’s works possess an unsuspected strength in their delicacy, fineness, and craftsmanship.”

In addition to her accomplishment as a sculptor and painter, Theodora was well known as a jazz pianist, traveling the world during a music career that spanned 25 years.

Theodora Ilowitz strives to create artworks that convey the beauty of life. Her work is to be found in multiple individual and corporate collections.

AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
Affiliate Painters of Northern N.J. – President * Printmaking Council of N.J.
Women’s Caucus Modern Artist Guild * Metropolitan Painters & Sculptors of N. Y.
Artist Equity of New York * Artist Guild, West Palm Beach
Westlake Village Art Guild * Thousand Oaks Art Association

RECENT SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 “Sculpture on the Hill II” Arts Council of Conejo Valley”
Hillcrest Center for the Arts, Thousand Oaks, CA
2009 Four Seasons Hotel, Westlake Village, CA
2008 Donation of Public Art to Sculptural Garden of Cal Lutheran University
2007Juried Annual Show of Thousand Oaks Art Association
2006 Hillcrest Center for Arts, “Open to Interpretation: Abstractionism” Thousand Oaks, CA
2005 Juried Art Show, Thousand Oaks Art Association, CA

Before 2005 numerous exhibitions on the East Coast. Recipient of multiple awards.

* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist