As an accomplished Fine Artist, growing up in Stony Brook, and as long as I can remember, I was always fascinated with the arts and the Japanese culture, at such a young age.
As a young student in grade school, the emotional challenges for me where relentless.
I became deeply focused with the arts, and looked forward to everyday after classes to develop my talent. I first started by copying game character forms from now retired magazine’s called Nintendo Power. My family was immediately impressed with how I could perfectly match up the images. It was no surprise that every Christmas and birthday gifts thereafter were art supplies.
Not long after, I was inspired to create a portfolio of my work when entering High School, my passion for the arts grew ever stronger despite almost being overlooked by some of my Art directors and instructors at the time.
Aurum(#12)
When being discourage by the lack of interest by my High School teachers in performing of my art assignments, I asked for a meeting with the head of School and the director of the art department. At that meeting, the principle was concerned as to why I was having trouble with the classes, and when I open my portfolio, he was amazed to learn what was created.
At that point, I got the recognition that carried me through the remainder of my high school years, and allowed me set my goals for my future undergraduate studies.
The art studio at Ward Melville High School became a second home to me, constantly spending hours and pushing the limits as to how tardy I could be in other classes. Later on during my senior year of High School an artist and long time professor at LIU Post by the name of Seung Lee came to our art class scouting out for potential artists. On numerous visits professor Lee always came to my station wanting me to come register at the University as a Fine Arts major. Ever since then art continued to become an addiction, I was constantly experimenting with different materials and mediums such as charcoals, acrylics, inks and oils. . It wasn’t long before I was experimenting with different media, and of course, various subjects.
7 Years(#11D)
After High School, I studied at one of the finest universities here on long island at LIU Post, as well as abroad at the Sophia University in Tokyo to further my education as a professional artist and Japanese linguist. This allowed me to further my studies in the arts and Japanese language. This improved my experience when traveling Asia, it provided inspiration and influences in my studies in the arts of a different cultures.
As a first year graduate student, I continued my course of study to advance my knowledge of the Japanese language while studying Art history abroad and mastering my techniques as a Fine Artist.
I was also fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to be included in an exhibition tour of South Korea. Traveling with my work, exchanging techniques and styles of our work with other artist and engaging with other students from around the world. This helped broaden my expectations and gave me the confidence to explore and expose my emotions on canvas utilizing techniques such as glazing, under painting and use of sensual colors in my latest collection of work.
Deity Of Emotions (#13)Res
While studying at the LIU, my work has been shown in many private galleries in the country and abroad such as, PACMAC Arts festival (Patchouge 2014), Studio 5404 Gallery (Massapequa 2014-2015), Ripe Art Gallery (Huntington 2014-2015), Sungshin University (South Korea 2015), Haslla Museum (South Korea 2015) , just to mention a few.
As an artist, achievements include “Everything Is Museum, Guggenheim Museum Proposal Contest” (“Why Can’t Museums Go Underground?” 2008),
LIU Post’s Best in Painting Award (2014), and being picked in a group of 45 chosen out of over 400+ entries to participate in the “National MFA Wet Paint Biennial Competition” at the Zhou B. Arts Center, (Chicago, 2016)
As an artist I’ve always been captivated with human emotion. While continuing my Graduate degree at LIU I have Recently created a collection of work, which captures my inner perturbation, and feelings that are now expressed on canvas in this recent collection of works;
I’m now continuing to follow my heart and my passion to achieve my Graduate Degree, and looking into the future of a PhD in Art Education.
As previously stated, Expression is the art of ones soul…
Candice’s will be on display this month at:
Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition:
Exhibition: April 11-May 6
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 13, 5:00–8:00pm
Steinberg Art Museum (Hillwood Building, LIU Post)
As an integral part of the MFA program at LIU Post, graduate candidates participate in a group thesis exhibition which takes place in the Steinberg Museum of Art at Hillwood. The artists in this exhibition have worked diligently with their faculty mentors to achieve their own personal vision as confident professionals ready to debut in today’s competitive art world.
This spring, students will be graduating in May, 2016. Artists participating in the MFA Thesis Exhibition include:
Chris Ann Ambery, Sohee Conover, Suzanne Desiderio, Nicholas Frizalone, Carrie Anne Gonzalez,
Yuheng Hou, Candice Licalzi, Juan Lopez, Ashley Schriefer, Chelsea Soldner, Yuan Yin, Ting Ting Zhang