Lovie Pignata – NAP Virtual Resident 2016

Lovie Pignata creates her works by using the spaces around her subject to develop the composition through pattern and light, often using elements of shadows and reflections, a theme most apparent in her photos.  Lovie works in a variety of mediums to achieve the desired end result for her work.  She regularly combines photography, collage, cut paper, acrylic paint and pen and ink.  Lovie studied undergraduate fine art, majoring in sculpture, at Pratt Institute.  She has also been a participant in the Botanical Drawing program at the New York Botanical Garden,  as well as advanced figure drawing at the Art Student League of New York.  Lovie also instructed the first outdoor drawing classes at Van Cortlandt Park thorough the Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy in 2014