Works on Paper Exhibition

April 7 - April 25

Opening Reception is Friday, April 7th (5:30-8pm)

Awards to be announced at 7pm

Free and open to the public!

Fiorenza Gorini

Perspectives - The Human Figure

Exhibit Store Coming Soon

Fiorenza Gorini was born and raised in Milan, Italy, where she graduated in language arts and worked as a teacher before moving to San Francisco Bay Area in 2006. In 2008 she began her professional artistic career.

Fiorenza has been attracted to a variety of techniques and subjects, but in the past three years, her interest has been drawn mostly to the human figure. Figure painting has allowed her to experiment over time different stylistic approaches, as in her artistic statement: “…moving freely from a more representational style to a more abstract direction and vice-versa, simply following the inspiration of the moment”.

She focuses her creative process on design and color mixing, but she also enjoys the unpredictable results of unplanned and spontaneous production: “behind the creative process I always feel a sense of mystery and excitement”.

Fiorenza sees art as a never-ending adventure driven by the desire to “get better, pushing my limits and overcoming my fears of failure”.

At this point in her artistic journey, she would define her art as an “exploration in progress”.

Group Show

Works on Paper

Exhibit Store Coming Soon

Adriane Dedic
Amy Rattner
Barbara deGery
Cliff Bryant
Daniel Meehan
Darren Kerr
Dawn Tower
Dustin Adamson
Edna Acri
Emilie Munsch
Fiorenza Gorini
Helen Kim
Jeff Ishikawa

John Spotorno
Judy Kramer
Kammy Chiu
Lauren Herzog Schwartz
Lesley Taylor
Lily Hurlimann
Myrna Ehrlich
Paul Ransohoff
Stephen Curl
Suzanne Carey
Wayne Kvenvold
William Jackson
Youming Cate
Zhi Su

Juror: Denise Howard

Juror
Denise Howard

Denise Howard grew up on a Missouri farm surrounded by animals and nature, drawing constantly. She earned a BA in Art and a BS in Math/Computer Science concurrently from Truman State University, and later an MS in Computer Science from Ohio State University, focused on computer graphics. She worked for several Silicon Valley companies, was one of the developers of iPhoto at Apple, and earned movie credits on Antz and the Academy Award-winnning Shrek at PDI/Dreamworks. Software engineering left little time or energy for creating art for 25+ years.

Finally the urge to return to her art became too strong to ignore, so she committed to it as a second career and soon received local, national and international recognition and awards for her realist colored pencil and graphite work. Her art, and articles by and about her, have been published in several books and magazines, and she is popular as a workshop presenter. She is the author of 101 Textures in Colored Pencil (Walter Foster Publishing, 2017) and a co-author of The Complete Book of Textures for Artists (Walter Foster Publishing, 2020).

She is a Ten-Year Merit Signature Member of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA), for which she is also the president. She is a Silver Signature Member of the United Kingdom Colored Pencil Society (UKCPS).

She lives in Santa Clara, California with her husband, two cats, and a garden full of native plants and hummingbirds.