Arts & Frames by Wood Gallery

ALEXANDRA M. ZLOTO

Alexandra M. Zloto was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She moved with her family to Chicago in 1961, were she completed her studies and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts and Spanish Education from the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Prior to studying at the University of Illinois, she worked as Advertising Media Analyst at North Advertising, and as an assistant to a film producer at N.W. Ayer Advertising in Chicago. Alexandra studied dance and performed at the MoMing Collection School of Theater and Dance and at Columbia College Dance Center, where she performed her own choreographed works.On a scholarship in 1974, she studied at the University of Barcelona, Spain. While there, she exhibited a series of oil paintings and drawings in her first one-woman exhibition at the Ateneo Barcelones in Barcelona.Alexandra has participated in numerous exhibitions and showed her art work in various galleries in Illinois, California and Arizona, including the Sun Cities Museum of Art. Her drawings, paintings and painted furniture are included in private collections throughout the United States, Spain and South America. She exhibits her art at the Art & Frames by Wood Gallery in Coronado, CA, and Vision Arts Gallery in Chandler, AZ.

Her most recent one-woman exhibition was "Timeless Rhythms" at the Chandler Center of the Arts. Her work can be seen in the Center's season performance brochure. She continues creating art work on commission for her clients to enhance their home or office space including large-scale mixed media, acrylic paintings and collages. "My work is where dreams and reality merge, where color is music, and brushstroke is dance. My goal is to capture a vision and hold that moment's impression, striving to express the essence of this inspiration."