Naza (artist)

Naza é Maria Nazareth Maia Rufino McFarren (Born in Santa Cruz do Piauí, Piauí on 19 April 1955) is a Brazilian painter, best known for her abstract paintings of officials, celebrities, and endangered species.

She attended elementary school in Santa Cruz do Piauí and Picos, and high school in Fortaleza. She started university in Teresina. In 1976, she moved to Brasilia, where she began painting professionally. The same year she moved to Recife, where she lived for five years.

It was here that Naza began developing her style, and made his first solo exhibition. Also in Recife, she had her daughter, Guiomar Rufino Lins e Silva in 1979. In 1982, did call for the Bank of Brazil and was taking the job in the Picos. While living in that city, Naza always traveled to make presentations and painting portraits in Fortaleza, Brazil, Recife, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. In Picos, met and married Stuart McFarren, an American, and moved to the United States. First they went to Saint Thomas, and then to Dalton, Ohio. Dalí went to live for three years at Fort Kobbe, a U.S. military base in Panama. Panama was hired to paint portraits of high society in the country. Among its clients were General Noriega and his family. It was in Panama at Gorgas Hospital, who was born her son, Daniel McFarren, in 1987. She moved to Arlington, Virginia, in 1988. The current phase of the artist is the result of research while living in Arlington. This time is the painting "Perdendo o Medo do Vermelho" (Losing the Fear of Red), which was a cornerstone and a major shift in artistic direction.

In 1990, she moved to Barbados, where she lived a few months. Barbados, already separated, she moved with her ​​two children to Fayetteville, North Carolina. There, she spent three years working as an artist, as a teacher of Portuguese to the U.S. Army, and art teacher for Fayetteville Community College. In 1993, she moved to Florida, and now resides in the city of Boca Raton, Florida, where she opened an atelier Naza Art Studio at Palmetto Park Road. She became intensely involved with the local community. She became an active member of several local organizations, including, Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, Women in Visual Arts, Boca Raton Professional Artists Guild, American Pen Women, Soroptimists International.^[1]

In 1998, the journalist Suzane Jales wrote and published the book "The Figurative Abstract of Naza (Abstracted Realism by Naza).^[2] Naza moved to Deerfield Beach in 2003, and in 2005, began to create clothes and other products inspired by his paintings. Her art was at the mansion of Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, attended by several celebrities, including Debbie Gibson, David Carradine and Dan Haggerty.^[3] In December 2007, the artist has lived most of the year in Brazil, where their clothes are being manufactured.^[4][5]

Naza is also a resident of Boca Raton, FL, and Los Angeles, CA, by the year.

References

1. ^ "Portrait Preserves Memories, Slain Boy's Parents Praise Boca Artist", The Sun Sentinel, February 05, 1996, Sarah Lundy
2. ^ Published Biography, by journalist Suzane Jales about Naza's life and work.
3. ^ Art 4 charity, Children's Home
4. ^ Artista Plástica piauiense continua em voga nos EUA, 11/06/2010
5. ^ BRAZILIAN ARTISTS / ENTERTAINERS IN FLORIDA, GEORGIA & N.CAROLINA

External links

• Artist's website
• "Naza (pintora)", Portuguese wikpedia
• Achei USA Das calçadas do Piauí às paredes da Casa Branca
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• Naza Naza, myartspace
• Central de Vídeos / Artistas Plásticos, conexaoamerica
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• Naza deu a volta no mundo para provar seu talento
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• pt:Palácio Karnak
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