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Born: Lucia Trifan. April 23, 1949. Tifesti, Romania.

Living in St. Martin, French West Indies since 1984.

EDUCATION: 1976-1979 Romania Fine Arts Brasov, majored in Ceramics and Sculpture.

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST:
In the early 1980’s, avid for new encounters of nature and especially of freedom, Lucia leaves her native Romania to sail around the world. The expedition makes a port of call in the Caribbean on the island of St. Martin. She lives in a small house nestled between France and Holland (St. Martin and St. Maarten) from where she draws her inspiration. She evokes African art through naivety, its richness, luminosity and intensity of its pigmentation.

Sensitive to distress as to the beauty of humanity and the world, Lucia creates her very personal works marked bylight, colors and for some, a certain painful obscurity. Influenced by Chagall and Miro, she feeds her own style easily identifiable and enriches it by her attraction for “the people of the sun” which is very apparent in her canvases. Her work reveals a subtle harmony made of freedom and love, which is incarnated in her figures that seem to be alive.

Lucia’s paintings not only display the richness of the island’s animals and vegetation but also the joy and well being inspired by dancers, the marketplace and the small moments of daily life. 


SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2002 Simpson Bay Art Gallery.St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

2002 Grand Case Beach Club. Grand Case, St. Martin, F.W.I.

1996 Antoine’s Restaurant. Philipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1995 Romanian Cultural Center. New York, USA

1995 Heritage Museum of Art. Grand Case, St. Martin, F. W.I.

1994 Maho Beach Plaza. St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

1979 Casa de Culture a Studentilor. Brasov, Romania

1978 Casa de Culture a Studentilor. Brasov, Romania

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2003 Galerie Thuillier.”Petit Salon”, Paris, France

2003 Centre Culturel Christiane Peugeot. Paris, France

2003 V Benial de Pintura del Caribe Centroamerica. Santo Domingo

2002 Le 3ème Salon d’Automne. Sorèze, France

2002 Le Mois de la Peinture. Grand Case, St. Martin, F.W.I.

2001 IV Benial de Pintura del Caribe Centroamerica. Santo Domingo

2001 American Medical School. Cupecoy, St. Maarten, N.A.

2001 Bay Watch Restaurant. Simpson Bay, St. Maarten, N.A.

2001 Hotel la Samana. Terres Basses, St. Martin, F.W.I.

2000 Centrale Bibliotheek. Den Haag, The Netherlands

2000 Le Mois de la Peinture. Grand Case, St. Martin, F.W.I.

1999 Arte 99. Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

1999 Office du Tourisme. Marigot, St. Martin, F.W.I.

1997 Classic Caribbean Art Gallery. Curaçao, N.A.

1997 Plaza Resort Bonaire. Bonaire, N.A.

1997 Nanette Bearden Fine Arts Gallery. Philipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1996 III Benial de Pintura del Caribe Centroamerica. Santo Domingo

1996 Netherlands Antillean Art, Royal Neth. Embassy, Venezuela

1996 UNESCO Head Office. Paris, France 

1995 Art Invasion, Windward Islands Bank. St. Maarten, N.A.

1995 95 International Art Competition. 54 Gallery, New York, USA

1995 Harquail Theather. Grand Cayman Islands 

1995 Bermuda National Gallery. Hamilton, Bermuda 

1994 Conseho Parokial Paradera. Oranjestad, Aruba 

1993 Ramada Renaissance Hotel. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1993 Carib Arts Traveling Exhibition, Int’l Trade Center, Curaçao, N.A. 

1992 The XXVII Annual Art Show. New York, USA (Honorable Mention)

1988 Nanette Bearden Fine Arts Gallery. Philipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1986 St. Maarten Museum. Philipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1985 Nanette Bearden Fine Arts Gallery. Philipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1979 Sala Arta. Brasov, Romania
1976 Decorative Arts. Brasov Art Center, Romania

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS:

Global Art Rent. Maastricht, The Netherlands

St. Maarten Museum. Philipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

Camaïeu Galleries. Marigot, St. Martin, French West Indies

Gallery Case de Alma Blow. Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

Bread Fruit Gallery. Saba, Netherlands Antilles

Publications:

2002 Femmes et Artistes. REGARDS.

2003 Nature paysage et jardin. REGARDS.

2004 Who’s Who in International Art. Int’l Biographical Art Dictionnary.

1996 III Benial de Pintura del Caribe Centroamerica Catalog

2001 IV Benial de Pintura del Caribe Centroamerica Catalog

2003 V Benial de Pintura del Caribe Centroamerica Catalog

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