Biography
Barbara Kolo
was born and educated in New York. She developed an appreciation
for art at an early age,
often visiting
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOMA. Her interest in drawing
and painting lead her
to apply
to the High School of Art and Design. She later attended the
School of Visual Arts, receiving her
BFA in 1981. During
the 1980's she 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. Read
Barbara's interview
about creating movie posters underarchives at:
(hollywoodlitsales.com)
Barbara's early
interest in drawing and painting had never diminished throughout
this period. During the
early '90's she
began to follow the urge to develop her own personal artistic
voice, and also joined Los
Angeles based artists
organizations such as SITE (Seeking It Through Exhibition) to become
more involved
in the art community.
Her drawings were soon being included in local
group shows and national
juried
shows. From her
earliest works, Barbara's focus has been on drawing organic
material from life. The objects
are presented in
a setting akin to portraiture, and are
rendered with a sensual,
theatrical feeling avoiding
the merely descriptive.
The resulting sense of mystery is rewarding to the viewer on both
an emotional and
intellectual level. Her latest
worksdeals with organic material on an intuitive level.It deals
with organic
shapes, colors
and patterns that represent what we see in nature.
In 1992 the School
of Visual Arts, in a very special gesture, gave her a solo show,
a rare occurrence for an
alumna of eleven
years. Over the next few years Barbara's drawings were accepted
in more group shows, and
commissions and
sales followed. Slowly, this second career as a fine artist became
her main focus. Some
highlights from
the last few years are a chance to work, exhibit and live in
Paris, France for two years.
Barbara's work
was included in an exhibit at the American Chamber of Commerce, La Genie
de la Bastille
(a Parisian event
similar to the Venice Art Walk) both in Paris.
Outside of Paris, her
work was also
included in a group
exhibition with Voeux D'Artists at the Palais des Art in Marseilles,
and a group exhibit
in Descartes, France. She participated
in the 2005 Florence Biennale in Florence, Italy. In 2006, she
joined the
Topanga Canyon
Gallery in Topanga, California and had a solo exhibition called
"Natural Color".
When asked about
the future of her career as an artist Barbara said: "I want
to focus
on developing my artwork
to a higher level artistically, expanding it conceptually and
reaching a wider audience."
Copyright 2003/2007 Barbara Kolo - Do not use images without permission.
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