About
Laurie Maves’ non-traditional career path has evolved extensively in her nearly 50 years on the planet. 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 people 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. Here she encourages others to navigate their own creative journeys and to “find freedom in a brush,” similarly as she has through large-scale free themed abstract painting.
Artist Statement 2020
“Painting is a deeply personal process of exorcising the subconscious. Specifically the Mixed Media Series “Prayers Going Up” (Prayers for 2020,) for me is not only a necessary process that supports continued mental health, it helps me visualize my own spirituality, as well as define a space for prayer and meditation.” Maves’ larger than life paintings constantly explore a revolving communication of intuitive information, with themes of mortality’s intersection with divinity. Directly inspired and influenced by the large scale art and messages of Swedish painter and theosophist, Hilma af Klint, as well as abstract expressionist Clyfford Still, her large-scale mixed media works transmit a cryptic sort of language via fields of color and mark making of varied spontaneity, size, and frequency. Her free form application of oil and acrylic paints, oil and chalk pastels, china markers and graphite, allows for the development of an oftentimes raw yet authentic dialogue of the collective unconscious. The viewer is left to translate and be immersed in the fields she creates
Learn More
Think you might be interested in finding out what painting means to you? Take one of Laurie's small group BE FREE painting classes (with appropriate social distancing and mask wearing), schedule some large scale painting time with friends or family, or better yet, receive 1:1 personalized creative coaching or art as therapy based painting sessions
PRESS
on the telly
Tampa Bay’s Fox 13 January 2020
“In this art class, go big or go home” with Chip Brewster
PBS April 2019
“WEDU ARTS PLUS EPISODE 807”
miami
VoyageMIA November 2018
sarasota
SRQ Daily January 2019
“How It’s Made: Inside Art Factory 44”
Sarasota Scene Magazine June 2018
“Get Inspired, Meet Artist Laurie Maves”
Sarasota Magazine May 2018
denver
Denver Fox 31 Good Day Colorado "Center of Attention" featured artist October 2014
Denver 303 Magazine May 2014
“The Friday Experience – Inspiration – First Friday Denver”
Denver 303 Magazine November 2012
“The Friday Experience – Laurie Maves – Living The Dream of Being a Working Artist”
ARTIST Curriculum vitae
LAURIE MAVES (GUGLIELMI)
Personal Details: Laurie Maves Guglielmi (b. 1971, US) lauriemavesart@me.com | LaurieMavesArt.com | 941.900.4145
Education: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Arts – 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 :
2020 "Onward and Upward", Art Center Sarasota, FL
2020 MARA ART GALLERY + STUDIO, Sarasota, FL
2020 “The Big Show”, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL
2020 "Art and Vision", 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
2019 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 :
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, United Kingdom and the United States
Teaching and Art Therapy Workshops :
2019- present Owner 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:
2008-Present, Artwork Network, Denver, CO
2020 Women Contemporary Artists, Florida
2020 Art Center Sarasota
2020 Venice Art Center
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
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