Large painting in blue

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Mixed media painting on imported French 100% cotton paper.
Titled: “Color Study in vertical blue”.
Framed size: 66 x 46 inches.

My paintings are created in several stages. There’s a lot of layering involved in their creation: colored pencils, watercolor, acrylic paint and ink. Each layer of color serves a specific purpose, to express myself in total freedom through color, drawings and words, and then to conceal all that is private within each piece with thick acrylic brushstrokes.

Item Large painting in blue

Created by Johanna Boccardo

As seen in Private Residence, Key Biscayne, FL

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Meet the Creator

Johanna Boccardo

Miami Beach, FL

Wescover creator since 2019

Art is how I contemplate and understand the blurred boundaries between real and virtual life and what is private or public.

Miami-based Venezuelan artist Johanna Boccardo has an ample creative career that includes fine arts, editorial illustration, product design, as well as urban street art.

Through the masterful use of different media, she explores the application and interaction of color sequences to develop abstract ideas and concepts at various levels of non-literal meaning.

I grew up in a small colonial city in the Guayana region of Venezuela along the banks of the Orinoco river. A lot of my childhood was spent at my grandparent’s house, a magical place where the exotic and the familiar mixed, where every plant and animal exploded with vivid color. Life was intimate, personal, and private.

Today a lot of my output is the result of collaboration, whether it’s exploring inner worlds with private clients or augmenting public spaces for cultural institutions or companies. Art is how I contemplate and understand the blurred boundaries between real and virtual life and what is private or public.

Large painting in blue

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Johanna Boccardo