About the Artist
IVONNE GALANES SVÄRD an award-winning artist, musician and writer, was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the tender age of three, she drew an unusual, detailed depiction of the events of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Since then, she has known she was meant to be an artist. When asked, about her motivation Galanes simply says “I can’t help it, art just runs through my veins as God put it there”. Her parents quickly provided her with art lessons, and her father, artist Ricardo Galanes Lloréns, encouraged and carefully tutored her during her growing years. Under his guidance, she started painting in oils at the age of seven (7).
Galanes graduated from the former Lucchetti School of Visual Arts and went on to further her art education at Pratt Institute, in New York, where she studied drawing, painting and sculpture, learning the techniques of the Great Masters from master teachers. She studied anatomy with Sal Montano, where the class included studying and sketching from real corpses, just like Leonardo Da Vinci did. Galanes has won several awards during her life as an artist, since 1979, and has shown pieces in numerous art shows in the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico. She is also a member of the Portrait Society of America. Galanes currently offers private lessons focused in classical drawing, painting and human anatomy.
COLLECTIONS
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AWARDS
SOLO AND COLLECTIVE EXHIBITS 2017 -HISPANIC HERITAGE Art Exhibit at City Hall 2016 -CHRISTMAS COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT at Unik Prestige Gallery, San Juan, PR 2016 - COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT at City Arts Factory "Dia de los Muertos", Orlando FL 2015 - COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT for Mother's Day exhibit at Unik Prestige Gallery, San Juan, PR 2014 - INAUGURAL COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT at Unik Prestige Gallery, San Juan, PR 2013 - COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT at "Tango del Encanto" Festival at Cuartel de Ballajá, San Juan, PR 2012 - SOLO EXHIBIT "Vejigantes" at Maji Lina Gallery, Palmer, PR 2010 - SOLO EXHIBIT 'Warriors of the light" at Fundación Desarrollo Nuevo Pensamiento, San Juan PR 2010 - SOLO EXHIBIT 'Crepúsculos para el alma" Re-exhibit at El Pocillo, San Juan, PR 2009 - SOLO EXHIBIT "Crepúsculos para el alma" at Biblioteca Carnegie, San Juan, PR 2003 - COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT Grand opening for Panaché Gallery, Aguadilla, PR 2002 - COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT "Arte en el Hilton" at Hotel Caribe Hilton, San Juan, PR 2002 - COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT "Mujeres en el Arte" at Hotel Caribe Hilton, San Juan, PR 2002 - COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT "Estrellas en el cielo II" at Galería Pamil Fine Arts, Rio Piedras, PR 2001 - SOLO EXHIBIT "Movimientos Líquidos" at Galería Gato Pardo in Jaguar de PR 2000 - COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT - SELECTED ARTIST to participate in the Women Artist Show "Dueto para la Mujer" at Galerías Prinardi, as one of Puerto Rico's most prominent, female, living artist. 1999 - SOLO EXHIBIT "Sueños y Vivencias" at Centro de Estudios Avanzados del Caribe, San Juan, PR 1996 - COLLECTIVE JURIED EXHIBITION at Lake Worth's Art Students League, Lake Worth, FL (BEST OF SHOW Award in "Summer Memories" juried exhibit) 1996 - COLLECTIVE JURIED EXHIBIT at Lake Worth's Art Students League, Lake Worth, FL (HONORABLE MENTION in "Annual Juried Competition") 1992 - COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION at Arsenal de la Puntilla, San Juan, PR (SELECTED ARTIST to participate in the Cultural Show: "The Third Root. African influence in Puerto Rico's Cultural History") 1981 - COLLECTIVE JURIED EXHIBITION - 1st PRIZE for Best Design in the annual commemorative poster contest for the "Environmental Health Awareness Week" 1980 - COLLECTIVE JURIED EXHIBITION - at Ateneo Puertorriqueño, San Juan, PR (HONORABLE MENTION in the Puerto Rico Women's Guild Symphonic Orchestra Annual Contest) 1979 - COLLECTIVE JURIED EXHIBITION - at The Royal Bank, San Juan, PR (HONORABLE MENTION in the "8vo Salón Arte Joven" contest) |
SCENE FROM "THE HOBBIT" - illustration in oils.
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