The Larchmont Public Library presents OVER MY RAINBOW, an exhibit of artwork by Dorothy Cancellieri, on display in the Oresman Gallery from September 4, through September 29, 2012. The exhibit is free and open to everyone during normal library hours.
There will be an artist’s reception for Ms. Cancellieri on Thursday evening, September 13, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm in the Oresman Gallery. Everyone is welcome.
Dorothy Cancellieri’s paintings are full of emotions expressed through palette of rich, vibrant colors. With figures and animals as her favorite subjects, Imagination plays a key role in each of her works.
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Cancellieri was brought up in the Bronx, N.Y. and lived in Manhattan, but has resided in Yonkers for the past 24 years. Art was always a favorite subject for her, beginning in elementary and continuing through high school. She comes from a creative family. Her dad liked to draw, and was employed as a jeweler for Harry Winston. My mother's palette was her home. It had to look just so. Her brother, Michael Cancellieri, is also an artist.
In 1980 Ms. Cancellieri started taking art classes at the New School in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. While there she took a class with Professor Donald Stacy called “Painting and Drawing from the Imagination”. After the first class she was hooked, and continued to paint and draw at his loft, Stacy Studios in Union Square, for the next 32 years! Although Mr. Stacy is now deceased, sheI still rents space at the studio and continue to paint there.
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Ms. Canceliieri teaches art and yoga enrichment programs in elementary schools throughout Westchester County. She has been a member of the Mamaroneck Artist’s Guild from 1998 and her works have been shown in numerous exhibits throughout the area including the Upstream Gallery in Dobbs Ferry and the Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery at Iona College, to name a few.
For more information about the exhibit, call the library at (914) 834-2281 or visit the library online at www.larchmontlibrary.org. Please call or visit the library online for exhibit hours.
