OUR ARTISTS
NATASHA TUROVSKY
A professional violinist, Natasha Turovsky discovered visual arts almost twenty years ago. She decided to pursue professionally her passion by enrolling in the Fine Arts program at Concordia University in Montreal in 1992, where she specialized in painting and printmaking.
RODOLFO VIOLA
Rodolfo Viola was born in Milano on August 8th 1937. His painting follows the trends of non-representational art of those years, and he defines the aesthetic along with philosophical implications of his research in the Manifesto Universalista which he co-authors with Franco Zeffirelli, Peter Maag, Carlo Mauro and Giuseppe Marotta…read more
PEDRO PEDRAZZINI
Pedro Pedrazzini was born on November 11, 1953, one of seven children, in Roveredo, Ticino, Switzerland. His father was a physician and his mother a painter and homemaker. Pedrazzini spent the first 18 years of his life growing up in a culturally rich home where his parents collected art and sponsored many art events. He also read many books about sculptors and painters, especially 20th Century Italian artists such as Morandi, DePisis, Modigliani, De Chirico, Casorati and Marino Marini, a family relative…read more
ELIN LI
Elin Li has been a major featured artist with the ART AVENUE GALLERIES and ART-TO-YOU team for four years. Elin has a very diverse background both in art and languages. She was born in China in a Korean family and community. As a result, she speaks and writes Chinese and Korean fluently. Her English is excellent as well, from her ten years in the US. …read more
JACK DOWD
Florida artist Jack Dowd has become nationally recognized for rendering life-size portraits of unique lifestyles and bringing them to public attention. Jack Dowd thinks of himself as an American, contemporary, social realist sculptor and painter echoes style and gravity blend with the significance of the 1930’s Ash Can School; a metaphor for the everyday realities of urban life. …read more
ALEXANDRU MACOVEI
Born on March 27, 1954 Draganeshti, Singerei, Moldova
Permanent Resident Palm Beach Gardens, FL – 2010 …read more
JORDAN AVERY
Jordan Avery is a 17 year old fine artist and designer from Sarasota, Florida. Growing up and living in an area rich in the concepts of the fine arts and cultural diversity indoctrinated her into the global community from a very young age. Not only was she born in Sarasota, but so was her passion for the arts and people… read more
SALVADOR DALI
As an artist, Salvador Dali was not limited to a particular style or media. The body of his work, from early impressionist paintings through his transitional surrealist works, and into his classical period, reveals a constantly growing and evolving artist. Dali worked in all media, leaving behind a wealth of oils, watercolors, drawings, graphics, and sculptures, films, photographs, performance pieces, jewels and objects of all descriptions. As important, he left for posterity the permission to explore all aspects of one’s own life and to give them artistic expression…read more
RICHARD MORAVITS
The goal of my art is to channel my thoughts and feelings, leaving a part of me on the mediums that I work with. I hope that when you look at my art you also find a part of yourself. I hope it both wakens and quiets your inner self. It is like a Rorschach test, it is meant to say what it awakens within you as an individual. …read more
TEGI BARSEGIAN
Tegi was born in Yerevan, the Soviet Republic of Armenia. She graduated with honors at the Terlemezian School of Arts in 1983 and Yerevan Academy of Arts in 1988. However, as an artist she matured in Kharkov, Ukraine. She has been living in the United States since 1999.
LEROY NEIMAN
Artist LeRoy Neiman was best known for illustrations that presented scenes of sports and entertainment and the people that brought those pastimes to life. Like the America of his times, from the start of his professional art career in the 1950s until his death in 2012, Neiman grew wealthy… read more
CHARLOTTE JORDAN
Charlotte Jordan is a self-taught surreal animal artist currently living in Sarasota, Florida. In 2019 she took the path of a full-time art career and developed a unique style and while continually growing her audience… read more
PABLO PICASSO
Born in Málaga, Spain, in 1881, Pablo Picasso, became one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. A Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer, Picasso was considered radical in his work. After a long prolific career, he died on April 8, 1973, in Mougins, France…read more
GIANPAOLO BRUNONI
Art is a discipline, if that’s how we want to define it, with the task of using beauty to influence the observer. The result we find ourselves contemplating is an image with a strong aesthetic impact that instils our ‘self’ with a feeling of harmony, raising our level of consciousness and our sensitivity. This is precisely what happens with the art of Gianpaolo Brunoni, an artist with a wide-ranging and abstract imagination, whose use of the technique of dripping in certain compositions shows the influence of Pollock on his work. …read more
MARIELA MOODE
Mariela Moode is an internationally renowned artist, with collector of her works throughout the continent, with numerous solos which have been very successful. She use as a source of inspiration to travel around the world. “The magic of different cultures and languages are a powerful source of inspiration.”
She has and is currently participating in different national and international exhibitions…read more
YEKATHERINA GRUZINOVA
YeKaterina Gruzinova is the most recent artist to be exhibiting at ART AVENUE GALLERIES in Sarasota, FL. Yekaterina, or KAT as we already like to call her, is from Russia, and has already lived all over the world, Brazil, Costa Rica, Bali, Europe, and is just beginning her life long pursuit of more travels, explorations and dancing. …read more
SAFAE MOUNSIF
Safae is a Moroccan-Canadian artist, designer, and architect based in Montreal, QC. In 2019, she launched her brand, Sfiya. In Morocco, Sfiya is a teasing yet tender nickname for all the Safaes in the country. ..read more
KAIA EMERALD
Kaia Emerald is a USA-based, multicultural artist who has numerous talents. She lived and traveled around the world. She feels that her home is the whole world. Since childhood she was involved in performing and visual arts. Her gifts were inherited from her family and developed with genuine care and proper tutoring of wonderful teachers… read more
PAULA COLMAN
Paula Colman, an oil painter new to Florida, has been artistically expressive her entire life. Since childhood, she has designed clothing and architectural house plans, and has won numerous awards for her jewelry, textile and ceramic works. Through her education and career as a psychotherapist, Paula continued to pursue the visual arts, training as an oil painter for the past decade… read more
SUSAN SZANTOSI
Susan Szantosi is a contemporary photographer and graphic designer, currently living in Sarasota, Florida. She grew up in Hungary, lived in Austria, Germany and Michigan for several years before relocating to Sarasota. One main direction her art is defined by, are self-portraits, which are aimed to bring awareness to subjects moving her. Susan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Children’s Education, her motivation is to turn the world into a better place for the next generation to live in. Read more…
SHEILA VENANCIA
Sheila Venancia was born in Brazil and is a world traveler. At the recommendation of one of her clients, Sheila came to Sarasota in 2006 for a vacation and fell in love with this beautiful city on the Gulf of Mexico. What she discovered was that Sarasota is a mecca for her passion…read more
VICKI CHELF
Vicki Chelf was raised in Louisville, Kentucky. In her 20’s she moved to the Laurentian Mountains to a small town of artisans and hippies in the Provence of Quebec, where she lived for thirteen years. There, she wrote what she believes is the first vegetarian cookbook published in French. This provided her the means to attend the Ringling School of Art and Design, where she graduated with a degree in Fine Art. Proceeding cookbooks allowed her to pursue fine art painting.Vicki also studied classical drawing with Charlie Miano at the Southern Atelier…Read more
SUSIE SHARPE
Growing up in Korea, art was my first love, and my dream was to become an artist. When I was 16, my family immigrated to the U.S. Without speaking any English, I felt I needed to find a different career than art that offered security to support myself and help others. I decided to become a physician, although it felt like an impossible dream. After many grueling years schooling, while also learning English and supporting myself, I received my M.D. and residency training from Yale. I have had a very successful and fulfilling career as a physician. But I never gave up on my passion for art, and I studied it whenever I could while practicing medicine and raising two children… read more
EUNJOO CHO
OUR ARTISTS
NATASHA TUROVSKY
A professional violinist, Natasha Turovsky discovered visual arts almost twenty years ago. She decided to pursue professionally her passion by enrolling in the Fine Arts program at Concordia University in Montreal in 1992, where she specialized in painting and printmaking.
ELIN LI
Elin Li has been a major featured artist with the ART AVENUE GALLERIES and ART-TO-YOU team for four years. Elin has a very diverse background both in art and languages. She was born in China in a Korean family and community. As a result, she speaks and writes Chinese and Korean fluently. Her English is excellent as well, from her ten years in the US.
JACK DOWD
Florida artist Jack Dowd has become nationally recognized for rendering life-size portraits of unique lifestyles and bringing them to public attention. Jack Dowd thinks of himself as an American, contemporary, social realist sculptor and painter echoes style and gravity blend with the significance of the 1930’s Ash Can School; a metaphor for the everyday realities of urban life. …read more
ALEXANDRU MACOVEI
Born on March 27, 1954 Draganeshti, Singerei, Moldova
Permanent Resident Palm Beach Gardens, FL – 2010 …read more
JORDAN AVERY
Jordan Avery is a 17 year old fine artist and designer from Sarasota, Florida. Growing up and living in an area rich in the concepts of the fine arts and cultural diversity indoctrinated her into the global community from a very young age. Not only was she born in Sarasota, but so was her passion for the arts and people… read more
SALVADOR DALI
The goal of my art is to channel my thoughts and feelings, leaving a part of me on the mediums that I work with. I hope that when you look at my art you also find a part of yourself. I hope it both wakens and quiets your inner self. It is like a Rorschach test, it is meant to say what it awakens within you as an individual. …read more
RICHARD MORAVITS
The goal of my art is to channel my thoughts and feelings, leaving a part of me on the mediums that I work with. I hope that when you look at my art you also find a part of yourself. I hope it both wakens and quiets your inner self. It is like a Rorschach test, it is meant to say what it awakens within you as an individual. …read more
TEGI BARSEGIAN
Tegi was born in Yerevan, the Soviet Republic of Armenia. She graduated with honors at the Terlemezian School of Arts in 1983 and Yerevan Academy of Arts in 1988. However, as an artist she matured in Kharkov, Ukraine. She has been living in the United States since 1999. ..read more
SHEILA VENANCIA
Sheila Venancia was born in Brazil and is a world traveler. At the recommendation of one of her clients, Sheila came to Sarasota in 2006 for a vacation and fell in love with this beautiful city on the Gulf of Mexico. What she discovered was that Sarasota is a mecca for her passion…read more
VICKI CHELF
Vicki Chelf was raised in Louisville, Kentucky. In her 20’s she moved to the Laurentian Mountains to a small town of artisans and hippies in the Provence of Quebec, where she lived for thirteen years. There, she wrote what she believes is the first vegetarian cookbook published in French. This provided her the means to attend the Ringling School of Art and Design, where she graduated with a degree in Fine Art. Proceeding cookbooks allowed her to pursue fine art painting.Vicki also studied classical drawing with Charlie Miano at the Southern Atelier…Read more
EUNJOO CHO
SUSIE SHARPE
Growing up in Korea, art was my first love, and my dream was to become an artist. When I was 16, my family immigrated to the U.S. Without speaking any English, I felt I needed to find a different career than art that offered security to support myself and help others. I decided to become a physician, although it felt like an impossible dream. After many grueling years schooling, while also learning English and supporting myself, I received my M.D. and residency training from Yale. I have had a very successful and fulfilling career as a physician. But I never gave up on my passion for art, and I studied it whenever I could while practicing medicine and raising two children…read more
RODOLFO VIOLA
Rodolfo Viola was born in Milano on August 8th 1937. His painting follows the trends of non-representational art of those years, and he defines the aesthetic along with philosophical implications of his research in the Manifesto Universalista which he co-authors with Franco Zeffirelli, Peter Maag, Carlo Mauro and Giuseppe Marotta…read more
PEDRO PEDRAZZINI
Pedro Pedrazzini was born on November 11, 1953, one of seven children, in Roveredo, Ticino, Switzerland. His father was a physician and his mother a painter and homemaker. Pedrazzini spent the first 18 years of his life growing up in a culturally rich home where his parents collected art and sponsored many art events. He also read many books about sculptors and painters, especially 20th Century Italian artists such as Morandi, DePisis, Modigliani, De Chirico, Casorati and Marino Marini, a family relative…read more
CHARLOTTE JORDAN
Charlotte Jordan is a self-taught surreal animal artist currently living in Sarasota, Florida. In 2019 she took the path of a full-time art career and developed a unique style and while continually growing her audience… read more
LEROY NEIMAN
Artist LeRoy Neiman was best known for illustrations that presented scenes of sports and entertainment and the people that brought those pastimes to life. Like the America of his times, from the start of his professional art career in the 1950s until his death in 2012, Neiman grew wealthy… read more
PABLO PICASSO
Born in Málaga, Spain, in 1881, Pablo Picasso, became one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. A Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer, Picasso was considered radical in his work. After a long prolific career, he died on April 8, 1973, in Mougins, France…read more
GIANPAOLO BRUNONI
Art is a discipline, if that’s how we want to define it, with the task of using beauty to influence the observer. The result we find ourselves contemplating is an image with a strong aesthetic impact that instils our ‘self’ with a feeling of harmony, raising our level of consciousness and our sensitivity. This is precisely what happens with the art of Gianpaolo Brunoni, an artist with a wide-ranging and abstract imagination, whose use of the technique of dripping in certain compositions shows the influence of Pollock on his work. …read more
MARIELA MOODE
Mariela Moode is an internationally renowned artist, with collector of her works throughout the continent, with numerous solos which have been very successful. She use as a source of inspiration to travel around the world. “The magic of different cultures and languages are a powerful source of inspiration.”
She has and is currently participating in different national and international exhibitions…read more
YEKATHERINA GRUZINOVA
YeKaterina Gruzinova is the most recent artist to be exhibiting at ART AVENUE GALLERIES in Sarasota, FL. Yekaterina, or KAT as we already like to call her, is from Russia, and has already lived all over the world, Brazil, Costa Rica, Bali, Europe, and is just beginning her life long pursuit of more travels, explorations and dancing. …read more
SAFAE MOUNSIF
Safae is a Moroccan-Canadian artist, designer, and architect based in Montreal, QC. In 2019, she launched her brand, Sfiya. In Morocco, Sfiya is a teasing yet tender nickname for all the Safaes in the country. Sfiya is Safae’s popular alter ego; its earthy, amusing and endearing version. …read more
KAIA EMERALD
Kaia Emerald is a USA-based, multicultural artist who has numerous talents. She lived and traveled around the world. She feels that her home is the whole world. Since childhood she was involved in performing and visual arts. Her gifts were inherited from her family and developed with genuine care and proper tutoring of wonderful teachers... read more
PAULA COLMAN
Paula Colman, an oil painter new to Florida, has been artistically expressive her entire life. Since childhood, she has designed clothing and architectural house plans, and has won numerous awards for her jewelry, textile and ceramic works. Through her education and career as a psychotherapist, Paula continued to pursue the visual arts, training as an oil painter for the past decade… read more
SUSAN SZANTOSI
Susan Szantosi is a contemporary photographer and graphic designer, currently living in Sarasota, Florida. She grew up in Hungary, lived in Austria, Germany and Michigan for several years before relocating to Sarasota. One main direction her art is defined by, are self-portraits, which are aimed to bring awareness to subjects moving her. Susan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Children’s Education, her motivation is to turn the world into a better place for the next generation to live in. Read more…