HAUNTING ART

Visual Art – Seattle

Artist Background: New York School of Fine and Performing arts summer program “Chautauqua Institution”, art.ciweb.org, NY 1986 Bachelor in Fine Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology NY 1987 - 1991 Artist Shows: Chautauqua Institute “Student Show” 1986 New York Ralph Hays Contemporary Designs 2002 Seattle George C Scott Studios 2003 Seattle Musa design studios 2007 Seattle Canvas Art Gallery 2008 Seattle Old Boston Hotel 2010 And Oh! I have been painting since I was 16! You will not see any still life's, flowers, fruit bowls or abstract landscapes here. I love to do commissioned works. I get inside the heads of people and who they are see their interior space and create a piece to blend their whole being together in surreal kind of way. I find it actually easier to do commissioned work as it is less personal than my own. ARTIST STATEMENT: There was a time I suffered so much I wanted to get it out of me I don't want to die. I was so far wrapped up in loss and sorrow looking up to God wondering will I ever be happy again. Have you ever lost so much it leaves you so confused and empty inside like there is no way out? We all fall to the ground sometime its how you pick yourself up that is the real challenge…isn't it?? I have always lived in my own strange world. I paint to escape my sorrow. I have learned there is hope even in the most hopeless of situations...Cancer, death of loves ones. I cannot blame god for anything. You cannot rely on others to make you happy and fix you. It has to be you. But I know deep down inside those things happen for a reason and this reason is to make you stronger. I am lucky to be on this earth. I paint to rid of the physical pain that is eating me inside nothing was erased. I paint with my past tucked deep down inside of me and it comes out as an explosion and it invades me. I believe we are messengers on earth here to share our stories to help better and guide the future of others. There are no guarantees in life except for one. That is one day we will all pass this earth. We cannot take the material things with us when we die. How we affect others and the positive things we have done to help others will be the only true important things we leave behind. I am blessed by God to tell myself I suffered that much to become who I am today. I paint for this. Kim Lavarello