Sketches of Sound
Friday, March 31st, 2023
An evening presenting the artwork of Ava and Celia Liberace, paired with new musical works written and perfomred by violinist-composer Lauren Vandervelden, with Audrey Vardanega on piano, and delectable delights prepared by renowned chef Heinz Rimann.
Celia Liberace
Celia Liberace (b. 2000) is a DMV and NYC-based painter completing her BFA at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Much of her work represents an amalgamation of both classical representation and the modern interpretations of contemporary life, using human anatomy to reflect upon complex systems woven within nature and to communicate topics regarding sexuality, identity, social and environmental consciousness, and self-actualization.
She is deeply fascinated by the body’s potential to convey evolving psychological, spiritual, and physical states, and the simultaneous deterioration or evolution of the body and one’s natural environment.
Ava Liberace
Ava Liberace is an artist based in Virginia and Connecticut, and is completing her bachelors for studio art and biology at Wesleyan University. Most of her works take particular interest in the human form, capturing motion, and merging these points of observation with fabricated worlds and mental states.
She uses formal techniques in drawing to explore close observation and to express different emotional and neurological states and their interactions with the environment through abstract experimentation. Her main medium is pencil and pen, and she has shown work in Sarasota, Florida; Alexandria, Virginia; and New York City, New York.
Lauren Vandervelden
Lauren Vandervelden is a violinist and composer based in New York City. She is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School where she was a proud recipient of the John Erskine Prize for exceptional scholastic and artistic achievement.
Lauren studied composition with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner and violin with Kurt Nikkanen, concertmaster of the New York City Ballet Orchestra. She currently studies violin with soloist Kinga Augustyn. Lauren is the 2022 Grand Prize Winner of the Bellagrande International Music Competition for violin performance.