About the Artist
Wendy Coad’s professional art studio houses both her workshop and gallery painting spaces where she creates her art. Presently, her work is focused on the integration of selected multiple images into a single image, through both the conscious and intuitive process. Using common paint mediums – paint and boards – Wendy honors the historical painting genres and the artists that used chalks and pigments to paint their world onto walls and wooden planks that have survived for hundreds, if not thousands of years. It is her pleasure to link these age old mediums with a very contemporary act of painting.
Wendy Coad began her art career at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, where she worked in an abstract expressionist manner. After receiving her BFA, Wendy relocated to Toronto joining and participating as an active member of the vital “Queen Street Art Community”. As her work evolved into figurative images, she continued her art practice exhibiting in such galleries as Mercer Union, A Space and The Power Plant.
Wendy’s “American Art” career began in 1985 when she was awarded a position as a studio artist at PS1, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources in New York City. It was a year filled with excitement and productivity as she joined artists from the US and from around the world.
Wendy exhibited at “PS1 and the Clocktower’s” national and international Studio Artist’s Exhibition, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Fashion Moda, Printed Matter, the Open Center and Voorhees Gallery. While continuing to live and work in Manhattan she received her Master of Fine Arts at the City University of New York, Hunter College.
Her fascination with the human figure led Wendy to study anatomy and physiology, in conjunction with advanced trainings in Polarity Therapy, Cranio-Sacral Balancing, Mechanical Link and Acupressure, with licensing in Massage Therapy. She is a master practitioner and leader in the field of wellness modalities and has for many years taught Reflexology in New York City at the New York Open Center.
Her move to Miami Beach and recent tenure as an artist in residence at the ArtCenter/South Florida has added inspiration and focus and brought another level of creativity to an already remarkable career.
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