BIOGRAPHY
Zoe Lavatelli, born in Dallas, TX, was immersed in art from a young age, growing up in a family of artists in Buffalo, NY. She currently resides in Trenton, New Jersey, and uses primarily oil paint, watercolor, and mixed media on canvas and paper. Lavatelli obtained a BFA from The Cooper Union, and has both formally and informally studied various disciplines outside the art field, which continue to enrich and inform her work. The study and practice of Buddhism has been particularly influential, with its focus on existential questions, and the impermanent nature of reality forming the basis for both the content she engages and the painting process itself. Her studio work has explored figuration and abstraction over the years, but has a new found energy and velocity with the current emergent theme of animal skulls merging with abstraction.
