Liora Fine Art

LiORA   Watercolor/Mixed Media works on paper    

Liora's work is a reflection of her unique vision of the world.  She attended Parsons School of Design in New York, which honed her eye for design and color. Living and traveling in Europe as an adult has had a great influence, as evidenced in her European series. Liora grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut, and has been living and working mostly in South Florida since 1986.  She has been a full time artist since the late eighties.

Exhibits include curating and exhibiting in “Doing Business As Artist Entrepreneur” (DBA) 2011, a solo show at the Gildor Pastor Center Gallery at The World Trade Center in Monte Carlo, a series of solo shows at the Northern Trust Banks, Broward College and numerous galleries.

Commissions have been created in South Florida for The Stranahan House (their centennial poster), The Bonnet House (historical properties in Fort Lauderdale), Sunfest, Las Olas Art Fairs (5 of their official posters), several restaurants in the south of France, Easter Seals, and  the poster for The Red Cross Designer Show House in 2007.  Liora designed and created a series of murals at Joe DiMaggio's Children's Hospital.  Early in her career, she was commissioned to paint 2 wooden eggs for the White House Easter Egg roll.  That year, she was in the company of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenburg, and Maurice Sendak, to name a few.  Those pieces all are housed in the Smithsonian Museum's permanent collection.  

Collections include The Smithsonian Museum, the Virginia Beach Center for Contemporary Art, The Art of Living Foundation, and Northern Trust Bank.

In 2011, Liora's signature work, "Wake Up Save the Earth...” was licensed to Oxford University Press for a text book cover, Justice in a Globalized World, by Valentini.

Liora teaches creative painting, Mandala classes and creativity workshops at Artserve, Pearl's, and the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.  From September 2011 through February 2012, She has been leading teacher in "Creative Connections", a grant program funded by the Community Foundation of Broward, through the Art and Culture Center, working with at risk youth in collaboration with three other nonprofit groups.

Liora’s works reflect her passion and love for the planet earth, and her dream of a more peaceful and harmonious world.

Liora is a member of 2+3, The Artist’s Organization.

Her works can be seen in public and private collections around the world.

 

 

SELECT EXHIBITIONS  (* asterisk indicates one woman shows)

"Bonnet House Impressions", Fort Laud, FL.    2012, 2009, 2007, 2006 

*“Architecture”, Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce, January 2012

“Construct”, Artserve, September, 2011

“Light and Dark”  Glass Gallery, July 2011,

“Portals”, Gallery Six, March 2011

“Doing Business As Artist as Entrepreneur” , Gallery 6, January 2011

*“Inner Reflections”  CAMP 4 Health Fundraiser,  May 2010

“Portrait of the Inner-Self”  2+3  Artserve, March 2010

”Multimedia Exhibition”, Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL. January 2010

“Art Bravo”  Artserve 2009, 2011

“Global Rivers Art Project” traveling exhibit: Valdez Museum, Mexico 2009

“Second Wind” select members of 2+3, Pembroke Pines Glass Gallery July 2009 

“It’s about Time”  2+3 Environmental Exhibition, Artserve, March, 2009

“Heroes of Humanity”, Art of Living Foundation, F.I.U.  Miami, FL.    2007

“Summer Extravaganza”  Matthew’s Fine Art Gallery, Tampa, FL.  2005

“Journey to Magical Places”,Two woman show,Glass Gallery,Pembroke Pines 2003

“We Endured”  Yuri Dojc,  2 person show, installation, Broward College, 2002

“Stranahan House Illustrated”, Fort Lauderdale Historical Society, FL.  2001

* “Liora’s Art”,  G. & T. Salon, Westport, CT.    2001

* ”Light Journey”, Gildo Pastor Gallery, Monte Carlo, Monaco 2000

“Grand Opening Exhibition”, Gracie Lawrence Gallery, Delray Beach, FL.  1999

* “Liora, Selected Works”, Las Olas Branch, Northern Trust Bank, 1998

 “Open Studio”, San Jose, California  1997

*  “Works by Liora”,  Quintile Books, Greenwich, CT.   1996

Florida Historical Society, Maitland Art Center, FL.  mid nineties.

“Works and Ideas”  Storefront Art Fort Lauderdale, FL. 1995

*Liora-1991-1994 Original Works”, Miami Jewish Home and Hospital, Miami, FL.  1995

* Fort Lauderdale City Hall, FL.  mid nineties

*Wirtz Gallery,  Miami, FL.  1995

“New South Florida Masters”  Northern Trust Bank, Las Olas, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.  1994

* Northern Trust Banks, Coral Gables and Fort Meyers, FL.  1994

Nu Art Vue, Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.  1994

Art Expo, NYC.  1993

* Books and Books, Miami Beach, 1993

* Northern Trust Bank, Boca Raton, 1993

* LIORA, Mia Tanya Gallery, Boca Raton, FL.  1993

* Flagler Federal Bank, Fort Lauderdale, FL.  1992

* Alliance Francaise,  Miami, FL.  1992

*  “Las Olas Impressions”, Riverside Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, FL.  1990

“Salon des Refuses” (Hortt)  Broward Art Guild,, Kenworth Moffet, curator, 1990

* Gallery Within, La Signoria, (SOHO 20 Gallery curator)   N.Y.C., NY. 1989

* Mercedes City Center, first solo show, Fort Lauderdale, FL.  1988

“Easter at the White House”, Washington DC, 1986

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

Creative Capitol workshop for internet marketing, November 2011

Awarded Mini Grant Broward Cultural Division  January 2011

Bonnet House Impressions, 2009, third place in show, 2006, award  

Pembroke Pines “Art Competition”, selected for event poster, 2008

Hollywood International Art and Music Festival,1st place, 2004

International Festival Org. Bronze award for Sunfest poster. 2003

Art in the Pines, First Place in watercolor, 2002

Winterpark Art Festival, third place in watercolor, 1995

 

COMMISSIONS and LICENSES

Justice in a Globalized World, Valentini,cover, Oxford University Press 2011

From the Boardroom to the Buddha, Virginia Rebata, Book cover 2010

Red Cross Designer Showhouse, Official poster and marketing image, 2007

Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital  (Murals)  2005

Sunfest, Official Poster, West Palm Beach, FL.  2003

Las Olas Art Fairs,  5 official posters from 1993 to 2003

Plantation, “Art in the Park”, official posters, 1993, 2003

Stranahan House Centennial Poster 2001

L’Occitan, Menton,  France  2000

Easter Seals, 1996

Delray Affair official posters, 1995, 1996, 1997

Bonnet House, 1993

The White House, Easter at The White House, 1986.  Commissioned to paint  2 wooden eggs that are now housed in the permanent collection of The Smithsonian Museum, along with Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenburg, Maurice Sendak, and many other prominent artists of the time.

 

COLLECTIONS

Smithsonian Museum

Virginia Beach Center for Contemporary Art

Department of Commerce, Tallahassee, FL.

Commissioners Offices, Tallahassee, and Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Northern Trust Bank

Trends Sportswear, Hialeah, FL.

The Art of Living Foundation

Pembroke Pines Art and Culture Center

 

EDUCATION

 

Parsons School of Design, N.Y.C.

Silvermine College of Art, CT.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Artserve

2+3, the Artists’ Organization

Art and Culture Center of Hollywood

Creative Connections

Creative Capitol

 

NOTABLE QUOTES

”These works should not leave Prague!”  about a series of 20 works painted in Prague 

in the summer of 1998.    

-Alan Levy, founding editor in chief, Prague Post

 

“we are really impressed with your beautiful works!” 

-Andrea Christa Furst, Hundertwasser Museum, Vienna

 

“bold watercolors....technique reflects Liora’s command of color.”

-Mario Tarradell,  Miami Herald

 

“vibrant clarity..recalls the complexities of   Kandinsky and the precision of Miro.”      

-Robert Sims, Eastsider

 

"...like fitting together pieces of a puzzle; LiORA superimposes layers of watercolors, collages, crayons and pastels to create bold paintings that seem three dimensional.  The paintings, whether a castle or a street scene, flourish and glow. "    -Johnny Diaz, Miami Herald

 

"Wake-Up/Save the Earth" is a compelling gem of a painting by Liora Davis.  As if seen from space, the earth is posed on a pedestal.  The artist writes the work's title in tiny letters on the left side of the column holding 

the seemingly fragile orb.  On the right side of the column, she adds "Wake up, love the earth and all her magical creatures."  This beautiful piece, a reminder of man's smallness in relationship to the cosmos, could go to work a s a poster for environmental consciousness by the United Nations or the government."

-Candice Russell, arts critic, March, 2009