Carolyn D. Latanision, NWS - Representational and Contemporary Realism in Watercolors

Biography

Carolyn Latanision has been distinguished with invitational memberships to national societies including The National Watercolor Society, Hudson Valley Art Association, and National Association of Women Artists. The Pennsylvania Watercolor society has honored her with inclusion in their Sylvan Grouse Guild. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in NYC has twice awarded her their Medal of Honor for Watercolor at the National Arts Club. She is a Board Member of The New England Watercolor Society, as well as being a long time member of the Copley Society of Art. Her awards are numerous, and her work is included in more than 30 corporate collections.

Boston Museum of Science and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have both published her work. Rockport Publishers has included her work in Painting Light and Shadow, International Artist has included her work in two publications, and Watercolor Magazine has featured her work as well. Recently her work as been included in 100 Ways to Paint Still Life as well as 100 Ways to Paint Figures. Her work may be seen at Sidley Austin Brown and Wood, LLP in NYC; Westin Hotel at Copley Place in Boston; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Federal Savings Bank, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cabot Corporation and Royal Insurance in Boston; Martin-Marietta Corporation in Baltimore; and Katayama Chemical Works in Hyogo, Japan, to name a few.

People and architecture figure prominently in Latanision’s work and in both cases urban scenes are frequently depicted. The strength and style of buildings and the many abstract patterns of light and dark they provide, the juxtaposition of people and architecture and the connections they create, make a statement about the complexities of the time in which we live. Sometimes she’ll catch amusing chances or accidents of life that suggest possibilities the viewer can interpret from his or her own perspective.

Watercolor is a favored medium because of the many ongoing and interesting challenges it presents, although she also works with oil, casein, and acrylic.

Latanision has won prestigious national awards for her work from the societies mentioned above, as well as from Audubon Artists, The Salmagundi Club, Adirondack National Exhibition of American Watercolors, and Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, among others.

A native of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, memorializing the Bethlehem Steel Company plant in watercolor, oil, casein and also photographs, is an ongoing project.

Resumé

EDUCATION:	Kutztown University; Kutztown, Pennsylvania (B.S., Art Education) Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio Art Institute of Boston (Continuing education) Radcliffe College; Cambridge, Massachusetts (Continuing education)
AWARDS: More than 80 awards include those from:	National Watercolor Society New England Watercolor Society Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Rocky Mountain Watercolor Society Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors Audubon Artists; New York, NY Salmagundi Club; New York, NY Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club; New York, NY National Park Academy of the Arts Hudson Valley Art Association; Hastings-on-Hudson, NY National Association of Women Artists American Artist Magazine Copley Society of Art; Boston, MA Concord Art Association, Concord, MA United States Department of Commerce; Washington, D.C.
MEMBERSHIPS:	National Watercolor Society, Signature Member New England Watercolor Society, Signature Member Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Signature Member and Sylvan Grouse Member National Association of Women Artists (Juried Member) Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club; NYC (Juried Member) Hudson Valley Art Association, (Juried Member) Copley Society of Art; Boston (Copley Master designation)
PUBLICATIONS:	Best of Watercolor Painting Light and Shadow (Rockport Publishers, 1997) Cover, Teaching and Advocacy; Stenhouse Publishers, 1997 The Artist Magazine website Artist-of-the-Month, April 2001 Watercolor Magazine (Advice from the Experts), Summer 2002 Watercolor Highlights, 2003 Arts for the Parks Catalog, 1989 Bruce Medical Supply Company, 35 catalog covers American Mutual Insurance Company, published paintings in 7 calendars Pleiades Magazine, Premier Issue 1990 One Hundred Ways to Paint Still Lifes (International Artist Publication) 2005 One Hundred Ways to Paint People and Figures (International Artist Publication) 2005
GALLERIES (current):	Anne Irwin Fine Art, Atlanta GA Artana Gallery, Boston MA Chabot Gallery, Providence RI Copley Society of Art, Boston MA
COLLECTIONS: Commissioned Corporate work includes:	Westin Hotel, Copley Place; Boston, MA (limited edition print for 425 rooms) Fiduciary Trust Company; Boston, MA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Materials Processing Center; Cambridge, MA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President’s House, Cambridge; MA Fleet Bank; Cambridge, MA (4 paintings) Fleet Bank; Dedham, MA (3 paintings) Loomis Sayles and Company; Boston, MA Boston Federal Savings Bank; Boston, MA Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Boston, MA (3 paintings) Bruce Medical Supply; Waltham, MA (35 catalog covers) Colonnade Hotel; Boston Hotel (reproduced for greeting cards) Oxbow Corporation; Dedham, MA (3 paintings) Electronics Development Corporation; Boston, MA A-V World, Div. Roberts & Associates; Natick, MA S .D. Warren Company; Boston, MA Spaulding & Slye; Waltham, MA (2 paintings) Royal Insurance Company; Boston, MA Boston Museum of Science; Boston, MA (reproduced for greeting cards) Additional Corporate Collections: Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP; NYC (destroyed in World Trade Tower I) Katayama Chemical Works Company; Hyogo, Japan Cabot Corporation; Boston, MA (2 paintings) Martin-Marietta Corporation; Baltimore, MA (3 paintings) Liberty Mutual International; Boston, MA Palmer and Dodge LLP; Boston, MA BayBank Norfolk, Corporate Headquarters; Dedham, MA (2 paintings) Boston Equity Properties; Boston, MA Collaborative Research, Inc.; Boston, MA Ingoldsby and Associates; Wellesley, MA Isaacson Ford Webb & Miller; Boston, MA Prudential Leasing; Cambridge, MA (3 paintings) Signal Capital Corporation; Hampton, NH. OYC International, Inc; Andover, Ma
TEACHING:	Currently teaching adult watercolor classes at the Wilmington Art Center, Route 62, Wilmington MA. Contact Carolyn for information or to sign up for classes.