de los Santos has displayed her work nationally and her encaustic painting titled, “Pathos” was chosen for inclusion in the Boise State Women’s Center, Women’s History Month National Juried Exhibition, for the 2nd consecutive year.
Last year, she was awarded a PDAP 2007 (Professional Development Assistance Program) grant from Washington State Arts Commission to study encaustic and photographic processes at the Art Association of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
• Professional artist, graphic designer and photographer.
• Attended the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois • B.A. in Communications Design from University of Illinois at Chicago, • Represented by Artemisia Gallery in Chicago, Illinois
• Represented by Art@Work program, Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington 2002-present.
BIOGRAPHY
Currently, her work is represented in the Art at Work program at the Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane.
In March, 2006, two of her encaustic paintings, “Winning the Lottery” and “Green Day” were selected for the national juried exhibit at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. The show was included with the “Women’s History Month”, held every year at the university. Gloria’s work was one of 44 artists who submitted 142 entries. The jurors selected 35 works by 26 artists for the exhibition.
In 2005, her artwork was included in the group exhibit, “People, Places, and Perceptions, Contemporary Latino Art in the Northwest”, at the Maryhill Museum, in Goldendale, Washington, from July 16 – November 15th, 2005. Selected as only 7 artists out of a field of 240, it was a great honor to be included in this historic show.
Also in 2005, she began “North Country Artist Trails” an open artists’ studio tour in NE Washington. She organized 14 artists’ galleries and studios, designed the brochure and web site, www.northcountryartisttrails.com. The project has proved to be a great success and the new brochure for 2006 will be available in early May.
Her artwork is in private collections in Bermuda, Canada, England and the U.S. She has exhibited her work in Chicago, Colorado, Bermuda, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York State.
Her career began in Bermuda, where she worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for the local newspaper. From there, she worked in advertising agencies and publishing houses in Chicago and Santa Monica, CA, and ran her own graphic design and advertising studio in Falls Village, Connecticut. While in Chicago, she served as a judge for Montgomery Ward’s employee art exhibit. She was the curator for “Brave New Pixels”, an annual computer-generated art show exhibited under the auspices of the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics, (ACM SIGGRAPH) the oldest international computer organization. While living in London, England she was employed as a graphic designer for a large pharmaceutical concern. Her career came full circle when she moved to Los Angeles and began working in special effects for the entertainment industry. Her filmography includes: “Titanic”, “Hollowman”, “Star Trek: Insurrection” and the “Mists of Avalon”, which debuted on the TNT network in July, 2002.
Her parallel career as an arts instructor includes employment with The American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois and UCLA extension where she taught in the Film and Entertainment Dept.
