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Maria Foladori

Visual Artist: Paintings - Visual Artist: Photography

About the artist:

Foladori Weiss was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts Priliadiano Pueyrredon and then returned to her first alma mater, the School of Visual Arts Regina Pacis, as the printmaking professor for seven years. In the 1980s, her delicate paintings and prints were successfully exhibited and sold as part of Argentine movement of "naive painting". After immigrating into the United States in 1989, she focused on photography resulting in several awards and publications. In the last five years, she returned to painting from her studios in Palm Beach County, Florida, New Rochelle, New York and now Houston, Texas. Her large paintings based on 16th Century Ottoman ceramics were presented in a solo exhibition at the Turkish Cultural Center New York.