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My first visit to the Art Students' League at the age of thirty, was a defining moment for me. As I walked down the paint splotched hallways and peered into the classrooms with artists busily at work, a surge of happiness welled up inside of me. This is where I belong, I thought. Encouraged with my work at the League, I decided to change careers and continue on my creative path full-time. In 2002, I enrolled at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy, a program modelled after the Leon Gerome (1824-1904) and Charles Bargue(1826-1883) drawing program - one of the most influential art-education programs in the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Both Picasso and Van Gogh have followed the program for some time. At the Academy, and later at other studios in Florence, I acquired the tools necessary to express myself as an artist. Since then I haven't looked back - I officially changed careers. My artwork is in private collections in North America and Europe.
Selected Exhibitions 2007 "Time Out" , Solo exhibition 2007 "Timeless: The Figure and the Landscape", Group Show
2007 "A Tavola con Vista", two-person show 2006 "Allied Artists of America 93rd Annual Exhibition" National Arts Club, NY, NY.
2005 "22nd Annual Juried Art Show of the East Islip Public Library" 2004 "Hoyt Institute Mid-Atlantic Exhibition" Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA 2003 "Still Classical: Recent Works on Paper from Florentine Academies and Studios"
2006 Finalist, Experimental Category. "23rd Annual Artist's Magazine Art Competition". December Issue. Juried by H.C. Dodd 2006 Finalist. " International Artist Magazine Annual Competition". Aug/Sept Issue. 2005 Merit Award. "22nd Annual Juried Art Show of the East Islip Public Library". 2005 1st Place, Figurative Category. "The Artists' Magazine Annual Competition"; Student Category. January Issue.
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Melissa Imossi
Contemporary Realist Drawings and Paintings
Astoria, New York
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