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| Education Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA Southeastern Center for the Arts Professional Activities 1964 New York - Engraving Curator 1967-69 Lompoc, CA - Painting Instructor 1969 California - Designed and executed 10 murals at the Vanderberg AFB Hospital 1970 Began the Fine Art Program for Cobb County Board of Education 1972-73 Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Clearwater, FL - Painting instructor 1974-77 Cobb County Adult Education Program - Painting instructor 1978 Full time painter, printer and publisher 1982 Created L'arc En Ciel Editions Exhibitions (partial listing) 1979 The Gallerie Kloster Muchle, Oldenberg, West Germany Kinsrhalle-Bremehaven, West Germany German Senate Hall, Bonn West Germany Marietta Fine Art Center, Marietta, GA 1972 Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Clearwater, FL 1980 Krakins Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1981 R.J.K. Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1982 Gallery Sanguine, LaRochelle, France Georgia Artists Show, Callanwolde, Atlanta, GA Ruzzoli's- Omni International, Atlanta, GA "Salute to Women in the Arts" Atlanta, GA 1983 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Laguana Gloria, Austin, Texas 1983-1990 New York International Exposition 1979-1983 Atlanta's Arts Festival 1984 20th Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA 1985 FICA, Paris, France 1986-87 Reiss Gallery, Denver, CO 1988 Yosumi, Tokyo, Japan 1990 Art Expo, Los Angelas, CA 1990-2003 Abstein Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1991 Artefino Gallery, Charlotte, NC 1993 Musse de Montaut, Chalosse, France 1983-2003 Art Expo, New York, NY 1997 Monothon at College of Sante Fe, NM High Museum of Art, Studio Tour, Atlanta, GA 2001-2003 Mixed Emotions, Houston, Texas 2004 Otpecharki/Prints, Russia 2005- Watson Gallery, Atlanta, GA Motion Pictures Television Raw Deal L.A.Law Loose Cannons General Hospital Collections (partial listing) Lucine Amara, New York, NY Ms. Inge' Wollenstak, Fruedenstadt, Germany American Embassy, Pretoria', South Africa Coronet Carpet Corp., Dalton, GA Hertz Corp., New York, NY Mattel Electronics, New York, NY Phillip Morris Collection Gulf Oil Corp., Houston, Texas Bell-Atlantic U.S. Embassy, Lome, Togo, Africa NationsBank, NC, GA, & FL Cox Communications, Atlanta, GA Diamond International Corp., Cincinnati, OH United Airlines, Chicago, IL IBM Corp., New York, NY American Airlines, Dallas, TX Delta Airlines, Atlanta, GA Published BY Fidelity, Los Angelas, CA Bruce McGaw Graphics, New York, NY RosenBaum Fine Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Twin Willows Studio LLC, Brevard, NC Impress Graphics, Connecticut Slamaker Fine Art, Chicago, IL Editions Limited, San Francisco, CA Museums Karelia Museum, Russia Marietta-Cobb Museum, Marietta, GA Musee'de Montaut, Chalosse, France Galleries (partial listing) Galleria 55, Mexico City, Mexico Gallery Sanguine, LaRochelle, France Liberty Art, Stockholm, Swedan Shorewood, Tokyo, Japan Nan Miller, Rochester, NY Watson Gallery, Atlanta, GA Mixed Emotions Houston, TX Soho-Myriad, Atlanta, GA Wyndey Moorehead, New Orleans, LA Billy Horke, Chicago, IL Indigo Gallery, Ft. Collins, CO Red Wolf Gallery, Brevard, NC |
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| "And what is art... except a way
to express ourselves when our
thoughts and feelings catch in
our throats and fail to transfer
into a sound that is heard." ~ Ann Dergara |
| The enthusiasm with which Ann Dergara approaches
her art is a lifelong passion. Born to Norwegian- German parents who recognized and nurtured her creative abilities, the Greenville, South Carolina native sold her first painting five years prior to beginning her formal education at Georgia State University. In 1978, a printmaking course at Atlanta College of Art led her to Dick Williams and the innovative and contemporary Odyssey Studio. The artist pursued the etching and the collagraph, later the serigraph, and in 1990 began monoprinting. Her mastery of the art of print making is described as remarkable. Yet painting remains Dergara’s first love, and a vibrant testament to her profound talent. Santiago Leon of ARTEFINO speaks for many admirers that Ann’s work is typical of an artist assured of her own talent; it is unconstrained, blending great skill and maturity with the free spirit of a child. Dergara is intent on achieving the original, the unique, the different - but only as it celebrates what is positive and beautiful. Her brilliant use of color expresses her passionate respect for the harmony of nature - a recurring theme in a body of work that brings her growing, international acclaim. |