On Tuesday evening, January 21, life performance painter Jacqueline DelBrocco will share her work with the Geauga Arts Network Group (GANG). Host for the evening will be Frank Fendi. This educational program, which is free and open to the general public, will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Heinen’s Cafe, 402 Center Street in Chardon, Ohio. No reservations are necessary.
DelBrocco earned her BFA from Wittenberg University in 2007 with a concentration in painting and a minor in art history. Since graduating, she has combined commercial work as a graphic designer with commissioned paintings and other freelance arts projects, including managing a contemporary art gallery in Chesterland, OH.
As a painter, her primary medium is watercolor, and the work she is most passionate about is live performance painting which involves creating a work of art commemorating a special event while that event is taking place. Her performance painting gigs have included fund raisers for the Lillian and Betty Ratner School’s 50th Anniversary Gala at the Cleveland Museum of Art and for the National Huntington’s Disease Society of America where her painting was sold in auction to the highest bidder for $5000.
She explains, “Weddings are my favorite type of event to live paint. Guests seem to really enjoy watching the painting come to life…It’s not an easy gig, but I think that’s why not a lot of people do it. Although it is the most high pressure painting I’ve ever experienced, it’s also the most exciting and gratifying.”
DelBrocco’s live performance paintings tend to be impressionistic in style, but her fine art includes paintings that are figurative and portrait-based as well works in a more abstract style. Her larger works typically begin with a small ink drawing that is created using a technique called surrealist automatism or automatic drawing.
DelBrocco’s publicly exhibited works include a mural commissioned by the Bailey Building Commission in Lakewood, Ohio. She also recently won a national wine label design competition, and two of her designs were subsequently printed on bottles of select wines from a California winery.
The Geauga Arts Network Group is an ad hoc group whose mission is to promote communication, collaboration, and cooperation across artistic disciplines for artists living and/or working in Geauga County. For further information, contact Joanne Durante, 440-729-6481.
