User:Lia Galletti/sandbox

Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1943, Lia Galletti is a painter and printmaker, known for her abstract expressionist work. She left the island with her family at the age of 17 and moved to New York, where she finished her education and started to paint and exhibit her work in New York’s Greenwich Village and other venues on the east coast. Her father, also an artist, influenced her path towards becoming an artist as she watched him paint as a child. Lia has been painting ever since, developing her individual style and technique. She studied printmaking within the disciplines of etching, drypoint, linocut, silkscreen and monoprint. Lia exhibited her work and received an award at The Boston Printmakers, Brockton Art Museum, Boston, MA (1988). Her work is in their collection, as well as in the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, where she participated at the Ibero American Printmaking Biennial of San Juan, Puerto Rico. She recently participated in the Tokyo International Mini Print Triennial at Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

Exhibitions
Lia has had solo exhibitions in Washington, DC; Kingston, Jamaica and in Florida at Art Miami and Art Americas in Miami and at the Capitol Complex in Tallahassee. She has participated in collective expositions in the US, including Caribbean Visions: Painting and Sculpture (a traveling exhibition in 1995); Cadaqués, Spain; Ottawa, Canada; and Mexico City (VI  Bienal Iberoamericana de Arte Pedro Domecq). She participated in the Art In Embassies program in 1995 at the American Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica. Lia has received several awards, including State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship HM Visual Arts/Painting (2000). Her work is in several private and public collections, including Bacardi International and The Art Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American States, Washington, DC. Her work has sold at Sotheby’s New York.

References and External Links
Shifra M. Goldman, Modern Art Of The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean, CARIBBEAN VISIONS PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, 1995 José Gomez-Sicre, Art Of Cuba In Exile, 1987

Newspaper and Magazine Articles
Bacardi Celebrates 150th Anniversary With Limited Edition Duty Free Promotions, Ryan White, GLOBAL MARKETING COMPANY, July 18, 2012 http://dutyfreemagazine.ca Bacardi Marks 150th Year With Limited Edition Travel Retail Promotions, Melody Ng, THE MOODIE REPORT, July 18, 2012  http://www.moodiereport.com Lia Galletti: Las Posibilidades de los Colores, Carlos M. Luis, EL NUEVO HERALD, October 2, 2011  http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2011/10/02/1035061/lia-galleti-las-posibilidades.html Transformative Expressions: The Bold Look Of Artist Lia Galletti, Yohana de la Torre, GULF COAST TIMES, September 9, 2011  http://www.gulfcoasttimes.net/2011/09/ Alliance Names Winners In 2D/3D Exhibition, GRANDEUR MAGAZINE, September 2011 http://www.news-press.com/section/grandeur Lia Galletti, Concha Alzola, VANIDADES CONTINENTAL, Year 41 Number 10, May 15, 2001 El Arte de Lia Galletti, Carlos M. Luis, EL NUEVO HERALD, October 22, 2000 Galletti en Galletti, Armando Alvarez-Bravo, EL NUEVO HERALD, Wednesday, August 21, 1996 Los Líos de Lía, Juan Carlos Pérez, EL NUEVO HERALD, October 24, 1995 Mixing Cuban Culture and African Religion, Will A. Pluck, THE INVESTOR'S CHOICE, Jamaica, October 1, 1993 Women Explore The Eighties, Elisa Turner, THE MIAMI HERALD,  May 28, 1987