"I Paint what stirs my spirit and hope it is spiritually fulfilling to the viewer"
Slightly Expressionistic
When you buy her art, you buy a well crafted work, you own a painting by an artists who is known internationally, and you buy "a moment of peace, beauty and spiritual fulfillment" in your busy world. As one buyer stated, her work of "...peaceful calming nature scenes [show] an ability to convert deep feelings to canvas". Her process of underpainting in opposite colors and using knife techniques for the final layer offers true, clear colors which add to the intrinsic value of the scene.
A national and international artist, Mary-Louise Biasotti Hooper paints seascapes, landscapes, cityscapes, still-life and experimental work. Her purpose is to bring viewers a moment of respite and beauty in their stressful lives by taking them away to another place
Born in Greenwich Village, New York City, to an Italian immigrant family, the yearly art shows in Washington Square Park [begun in 1931 by Jackson Pollock] influenced her desire to paint. Since art was not encouraged as a way to make a living, she entered the field of Education. Her art became a self-taught hobby until formal training and an art degree in 2002. Influenced greatly by the work of Pissarro and Cezanne, she calls her work "Slightly Expressionistic".
Her work is both national and international. Internationally, she is life-juried into the Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea [Biennale International Contemporary Art Show] in Florence, Italy; she is juried into the Gallery of International Fulbright Artists/Scholars; and she was a artist in the UNICEF sponsored Music Project in New York City. Music and art were used to help tsunami traumatized children towards emotional healing and readiness for school in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India.
Nationally, she has participated in numerous juried and non-juried individual and group shows in Michigan, California, North Carolina, Kansas, Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, winning prizes in the process. Among others, she was juried into the 2006 YorkArts Juried Show, the 2006 York Art Association Open Juried Show, and the 2004 "Art of the State" Exhibition at the Museum of Pennsylvania.
Mary-Louise Biasotti Hooper is an artist member of the Art Association of Harrisburg, serves on the board of the York Art Association, is a member of the International Fulbright Arts Task Force, and is an Associate member of the Oil Painters of America.
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