Orchidia-Queen of the Night, 2021

Kohlene Hendrickson  

Kohlene Hendrickson was born in 1958 in California (Usa). She lives and works in Romainmôtier (Switzerland). She studied Fine Arts at the Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, worked for 12 years as an illustrator and art director, then returned to fine arts by studying fresco with Frederico Vigil, lineage of Diego Rivera. Passionate about frescoes, she went to Italy where she discovered encaustic painting. Her search for a medium that could translate transparent layering of colors and rich mass material finally evolved into her unique multi-media technique, combining the materials of beeswax, resin, pigments and gum arabic. Her artwork is luminous and expressive abstract figuration, exploring dimensionality, the human and cosmic of EROS.

She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the Usa and in Europe.

Accolades

2023 - Harmony for Humanity: The Global Consciousness Art Prize;

2023 - Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, The Faces of Peace Art Book

2020 - Primo Piano LivinGallery, Prize:Silver Certificate Award, Lecce, Italy;

2019 - International Artist of the Year by “Art Comes Alive”;

2015 - Grant recipient awarded by the New York Council for the Arts, the "Inaugural Mario Venturini Artist Residency" at Hac Flx ;

2012 - Grand Prix European Albrecht Dürer" by the Accademia Gentilizia Il Marzocco of Florence for her painting “Awakening”.

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