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BIOGRAPHY
Recognizing her artistic abilities at the age of 5, Mindi never imagined being anything but
an artist. Well, except maybe a mermaid. Her imagination and passion for creating has spanned her entire life beginning in elementary school, often making up outlandish short stories narrating her odd artwork. Continuing into middle and high school she expanded into all forms and mediums of art: painting, illustration, crafting, beading, sculpture, ceramics and pottery, commercial art and graphic design. Among her high school peers she was known for her sharpie marker tattoos, low brow art purveying, weird artwork and individualistic expression advocacy. Mindi’s senior graphic arts class formed a fictional design company servicing the school’s design needs including screen-printing
t-shirts for school organizations, creating banners and posters for school functions, building props and sets for theater productions and painting the football field with the
team logo.
A natural progression into graphic design led her to college where she flourished as an illustrator and designer. After graduating from Pittsburgh Technical Institute in 2002, Mindi has worked for several design agencies and in-house creative departments as well as with various freelance and pro bono clients.
While seeking opportunities in full-time employment, she also is an active artist having displayed work in over 15 solo and group exhibitions across the US. Her focus is figurative and abstract expressionism with a postmodernist slant.
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CREATIVE PHILOSOPHIES
"There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no
surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Color is my day long obsession, joy and torment.” Claude Monet
"Art is what you can get away with." Andy Warhol
"Let the beauty we love become what we do." Paulo Coehlo
The accepted definition of creativity is production of something original and useful.
There is never one right answer. To be creative requires divergent thinking
(generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those
ideas into the best result). The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek |
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