Inverna Lockpez
About the Artist:
Inverna Lockpez is a Cuban American artist. She attended medical school at the University of Havana, painting and sculpture at the National Academy of San Alejandro, and printmaking at Taller de Gravado. She arrived in New York in the late sixties where she studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Her work has been exhibited widely in more than eighty venues such as Aldrich Museum, C.W. Post College, 55 Mercer St. Gallery, Rutgers University, Hamilton College, the Kentler International Drawing Space, the John F. Kennedy Center, and others. Her work was represented in NY by Chace-Randall Gallery. She was the President of The National Association of Artists' Organization (NAAO) in 1990, the director of INTAR (International Arts Relations) Gallery in NYC for 15 years, and of The Catskill Center's Erpf Gallery and Platte A.I.R. in upstate NY for 7 years.
Lockpez received two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), two Creative Artist Public Service (CAPS) awards, two CINTAS Foundation Fellowship awards, two CETA awards, a Vogelstein Foundation award, and two grants from NY State Council on the Arts. She has published two books: "Cuba: My Revolution," and "The Noble Barn;" both available on Amazon.
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Past Solo Exhibitions at Arts on Douglas:
