BIO
Emily Eve Weinstein, was born in Newburgh, New York in 1955. First ten years lived in East Islip, NY. With her folks moved to Greece and then France. Formal art studies began at Academie Charpentier in Paris, then West Surrey College of Art in England and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA...BFA from VCU. Has lived in the Triangle, NC since 1982.
Selected solo shows: Waterworks Art Center, Salisbury, NC; Durham Art Council; Fayetteville Art Museum; Danville Museum of Art, VA; Council for the Arts, Jacksonville, NC; Bank of the Arts, New Bern, NC; Iredell Museum of Art & Science, Statesville, NC; The Ark Gallery, Greensboro, NC; The McPhearson Center, High Point, NC; The Horace William House, Chapel Hill, NC; Carytown Art Gallery, Richmond, VA; Keane Mason Gallery, NYC; Charwood Gallery, Roanoke, VA; West Surrey Gallery, Farnham, England...
Most recent grants: Orange County Arts Commission, Strowd Roses Foundation, Mary Biddle Duke Foundation, Durham Arts Council for the Emerging Artist Grant, Downtown Durham, Inc.
Work experiences include four artist-in-residencies (Oregon, Nevada, New York and North Carolina); teaching portraiture, landscape painting, mixed media, mural painting, faux finishes; originating two businesses, Pet & People Portraiture and Murals-By-Many. Weinstein also lived in a van/studio for three years while painting the unwinding scenery of America.
Art gift books are: Moon Book, Cat Book, Dog Book and Saving Magic Places published by Discovery Press and Beau Soleil Publishers.
Updated - 2/21/11, as of this date, Weinstein has finished the design and execution of Volume I of the 25-year handmade book project. Copies are now available. She is working on the preliminary drawings for a monumental mural and is planning a workshop to benefit Independent Animal Rescue.
Photograph by Dave Otto