ABOUT

Laurie Maves (Guglielmi)’s non-traditional career path has evolved extensively throughout her life. She began her study of studio art at the University of Wisconsin in the early 1990’s. Unsure of how to launch her career, she traveled to Ireland to wait tables followed by stevedoring in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. During her travels, she realized she wanted to use her love of art to help others in some way.  

Subsequently, she studied Art Therapy and received her master’s degree from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1997.

Upon graduation she moved to Denver, Colorado, and worked as an Art Therapist for a wide variety of venues including but not limited to nursing homes, pre-school day treatment programs, cancer centers and  kindergartens. Throughout the two decades Maves spent in Colorado, she  was constantly drawing and painting, finding a niche for and successfully selling her work in the community. She established more  than 500+ collectors of her stylized representational work, mostly  without gallery representation. In 2008 Maves painted with three other artists live at Red Rocks Amphitheater for a crowd of 10,000 people, and developed as a somewhat “celebrity” live performance painter in the  region. 

In 2017, she and her husband, Ralph Guglielmi, relocated to the Sun Coast of Sarasota, Florida. The following year she enrolled in a three-day intensive intuitive painting workshop led by German artist Bernd Haussmann that positively changed and overhauled the nature of her painting in a most exciting and necessary way. She found a new love for large-scale intuitive abstract painting, which not only constantly explored the deeply personal subconscious, but also challenged her boundaries of media, color, mark making, and composition. She found that she wanted to share the enlightenment of the creative process with others in a whole new way,  and established her own Arts and Art Therapies Studio, “The 11th  Orange,” in the spring of 2019, where she promoted and taught her “BE FREE” large scale painting classes to hundreds of students. Unfortunately, following the negative economic fall-out of COVID-19 in the summer of 2020, Laurie made the difficult decision to permanently close “The 11th Orange.”  

In November 2020, Laurie was given the opportunity to relocate her studio to the warehouse of the prominent JKL Design Group, in northern Sarasota, FL, as the interior design firm’s “in house artist.” Laurie is most appreciative of this latest home for her studio, and has found the new location to be a complete and total blessing to her continued advancement of style and professional development as a large scale intuitive abstract painter.

STATEMENT

My painting is inspired by many things: music, the ocean, a beautiful Italian vista. These things as much as the lives of such artists as Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, Swedish painter and theophist Hilma af Klint and American Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell, all encourage me to create and evolve and never settle. My life is similarly inspired by my husband, by my sons, and by my travels with hopes to continue to learn and grow as an individual, always knowing I have yet to reach my highest potential.

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ARTIST CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details: Laurie Maves Guglielmi (b. 1971, US) lauriemavesart@me.com | https://LaurieMavesArt.com | 941.900.4145

Education: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Art Therapy, 1997

University of Wisconsin – Madison, Bachelor of Art, 1993

Exhibitions​ :

Solo Showings​ :

2020 “What’s In A Name” Rossi Gallery, Dunedin Fine Art Center

2019 “Salt Life” SPAACES Gallery, Sarasota, FL

2018 The Artist’s Studio, Art Ovation Hotel

2017 “Migration Paintings” Galleria Mare, Nokomis, FL

2015 The Aloft Hotel, Denver, CO

2013 “Love for Fraser”, Elizabeth Kurtak Art Gallery, Fraser, Colorado

2012 “Dolce Vita”, Hirshfeld Gallery, University of Denver Women’s College, Denver, Colorado 2010 “Poppies for You”, Studio Shakta, Denver, CO

Group Showings​ :

2021 “Perceptions,” a show of four women, Tennessee Valley Art Museum, Tuscumbia, AL

2021 “NLAPW-Sarasota Branch” Annual Show, ArtCenter Manatee, Bradenton, FL

2021 “Let It Be”, Venice Art Center, Venice, FL

2021 “Staying Connected”, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota FL

2020 “The Big Show”, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL

2020 “Unchartered”, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL

2019 “Expansion of Abstraction”, Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County, Sarasota, FL Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa, FL

2018 Winter Group Show Gallery104, New York, NY

2017 Galleria Mare, Nokomis, FL

2016 Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA

2016 Artwork Network, Denver, CO

2016 Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2015 The Art of Winter, Denver International Airport, Denver, CO

2015 The Art of Winter, Copper Mountain Resort, Copper, CO

2015 Denver Artists, The Armory Performing Arts Center, Brighton, CO

2014 GuitarTown, Copper Mountain Resort, Copper, CO

2014 The Annual Frida Show, Picture This, Long Beach, CA

2014 Red Handed, TbGallery, Denver, CO

2014 The Frida Show, ChimMaya Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2013 Faces, MIIT, Museo Internazionale Italia Arte, Turin, Italy

2013 Open Canvas, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI

2013 The Peace Project, The Whole 9, National Traveling Exhibition

2013 ArT Project 2013 No.4, Studio Arte Carapostol, Venice, Italy

2013 Hand of Spirit with Maxwellvision, Jared David Paul, Skylight Station, Denver, CO 2013 GuitarTown, Copper Mountain Resort, Copper, CO

2012 4th Annual Dia de Los Muertos Show, Studio 12 Gallery, Denver, CO

2012 Open Canvas, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI

2010 Heart Beats the Same, Artwork Network, Denver, CO

2010 Open Canvas, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI

2007 BareWalls, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2006 BareWalls, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Permanent Collections​ :

Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Venice, FL

Orange Theory Fitness, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

City of Loveland, Loveland, CO

Kaiser Permanente, Denver, CO

Copper Mountain Resort, Copper, CO

The Colorado Trust, Denver, CO

True Value Company, Chicago, IL

KPMG, Denver, CO

Mountain Vista High School, Highlands Ranch, CO

Works held in private collections in Austria, Bahrain, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and the United States

Teaching and Art Therapy Workshops​ :

2019-2020 Owner and Operator of The 11th Orange, Arts and Art Therapies Studio, Sarasota, FL

2018 Art Factory 44 BE FREE Large Scale Abstract Painting, Sarasota, FL

2015 Voz Y Corazon, Suicide Prevention Program, MHCD, Denver, CO

2015-2017 Cancer Survivors Group, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO

2014-2015 Awakened Spirit Intensive Workshops, Zuma’s Rescue Ranch, Littleton, CO

2014 Art of the Solstice, with Anya McManis, Denver, CO

2012 Ride the Visionboard, Art on the Brix, Golden, CO

2010 Group Mural Project, The Cunningham Foundation, Project Mercy, Yetebon, Ethiopia 2008 Group Mural Project, The Cunningham Foundation, Yirgalem Kb12 school, Ethiopia

2007-08 Kindergarten Art Program, Red Rocks Elementary, Morrison, CO

2006-07 City of Lakewood, Arts Outreach Program, Lakewood, CO

1998-2001 Team Art Therapist, MHCD, Denver, CO

Residencies​ :

2018-2019 The Art Ovation Hotel, Sarasota, FL

2007 LUNA, San Acacio, CO

Memberships:

2021-2022, National League of American Pen Women, Sarasota, FL branch, Arts Member

2020-2022, Women Contemporary Artists, Florida

2020-2022, Venice Art Center, Venice, FL

2018-2022, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL

2008-2020, Artwork Network, Denver, CO

Live Performance Painting​ :

Independent Contractor, Convention Designs, Denver, CO; Independent Contractor, Artwork Network, Denver, CO; The Art of Igniting Action, with Alicia Fall TEDx Front Range; Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Rocky Mountain Chapter, Denver, CO; Copper Country Music Festival, Copper, CO; Mountain Vista High School Prom; Hanuman Yoga Festival, Boulder, CO; Mountain Pose Yoga Festival, Copper Mountain, Copper, CO; Colorado I Have A Dream, Roast of Kristin Richardson, Denver, CO; Annual Bowling Ball, Flobots.org, Denver, CO; Film on the Rocks, Red Rocks Amphitheater, Denver, CO