Maria Trapani
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Maria was born in Erice, Sicily, a small mountain village. Her father was the local cobbler and her mother was a seamstress. So it was only natural that she would start, at an early age, to use her hands to create. She moved to America in her teen years and was strongly influenced by her high school art teacher. She earned a BFA from Eastern Michigan University and a MA in printmaking from Wayne State University.
Maria taught art at the middle school and high school levels in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In1999 she left teaching to become a full time artist. She studied sculpting under award winning western sculptor, Richard Greeves. Her works are in many private collections and have appeared in the Cathrine Wolff Lorillard show at the New York Arts Club. She has also been commissioned to sculpt life sized works. Her sculptures are influenced by childhood memories of Italy and the sun soaked hills overlooking the Mediterranean. Her most recent piece was influenced by memories of days spent in the cobbler shop with her father.
Maria is currently focusing her work on oil painting, specifically still life painting in the genre of contemporary realism. She continues to study and learn from many of the 19th and early 20th century masters as well as today's modern maseters.
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