About
Professional Career 2017-Current I am a full-time fine artist. I have been represented and exhibited my work in fine art galleries and competitions internationally. I am currently represented in several south east Wisconsin galleries and in Florida. 2001 - Current I enjoy teaching non-accredited painting & drawing classes in the Milwaukee & Waukesha areas.
Some of the venues I have taught include ARTworks, Delafield Art Center, Oconomowoc Art Center, Shorehaven Adult Center and Wilson Center for the Arts. 2001 - 2014 Published artist/designer through Wild Apple Graphics (WAG). WAG is an international publishing company. WAG customers include retailers such as Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s and Kirkland’s to name a few.
1991 - 1999 Founded and operated Arc East Art & Frames, a dual-purpose retail custom picture framing business and gallery in Milwaukee, WI.
Education
1988 BFA Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD). Painting major, drawing minor. Semester scholarship 1986. 2014 Associates Degree, Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). Horticulture major, arbor minor. Awards and Recognition 2023 "Let Us Get to Know"... The Shores Sarasota Art Scene" Sarasota, FL
2020 Best of Show, Gallery V, Kansas City KS 2020 ADC National Arts Competition, Cincinnati, OH, The Top Ten 2019 Manhattan Arts International "The healing power of art" Exhibition, Award of Excellence 2017 Underwood Arts Assoc., Best in show, Delavan, WI 2015 Open Canvas Highest Bid painting for fundraiser. Milwaukee, WI 2013 Open Canvas 2nd Highest Bid painting for fundraiser. Milwuakee, WI. 2012 Open Canvas Highest Bid painting for fundraiser. Milwaukee, WI. 2011 Stevens Point Miniatures Galore, 2nd place. 2010 Honorable mention Hidden River Art Festival. Brookfield, WI. 2009 WI Visual Artist Award, third place. Milwaukee, WI. 2008 Winner of the New York ArtExpo emerging artist competition, Art Business News sponsored. 2003 1st Place at Artists & Display annual Valentines Greeting Card competition. Milwaukee, WI. 2002 Honorable mention at Art Elements Gallery small painting competition. Mequon, WI. 1999 2nd Place at Art Elements Gallery, figurative work competition. Mequon, WI. 1990 Best of show at Dennis Uhlig Gallery, still life competition. Milwaukee, WI. 1988 Best of Alumni Show at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. 1986 Full semester scholarship at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. Professional Memberships/ Groups
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Representation and Exhibits 2023
• Gallery artist, Fine Line Design, Ephraim, WI
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2013 - Current Wilson Center of the Arts, committee member.
2011 - 2015 Art Facilitator with The Alzheimer’s Associations Memories in the Making Program (volunteer position).
2013 - 2016 Shorehaven’s Founders Gallery, committee member.
2010 - 2011 Wilson Center of the Arts, Sculpture Garden committee chair.
2008 - 2010 Wilson Center of the Arts, Ploch Gallery committee member.
2002 - Current WVA (Wisconsin Visual Artists), member.
2004 - Current MARN Milwaukee Artists Resource Network, member.
2006 - 2007 West End Artists Association, member.
1995 - 1999 Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward Association board member.
1992 - 1995 RAA Riverwest Artists Association, member.
1994 - 1999 Milwaukee Art Museum sponsored Gallery Night, member.
1991 - 2002 PPFA- Professional Picture Framers Association, certified.
Articles
Door County's Peninsula Pulse By Emma Chamley, August 23rd, 2023 "To Bee or Not To Bee" Fine Line Designs Gallery’s final show of 2023 features works celebrating the natural world The season is coming to a close at Fine Line Designs Gallery in Ephraim, with their final exhibit of the year including oil paintings by Kristy Goggio. Goggio said Fine Line is one of her favorite places to “hang” her oil paintings, with the gallery’s gardens a great background for her primary subject matter this season: honeybees and Mother Nature. Goggio has kept bees for 14 years at her home in Oconomowoc, and said she wants her work to highlight how essential bees are to the earth’s ecosystem. She said bees have been a catalyst for learning about other aspects of nature, as well as adding other natural elements to her work. “I have such a respect for them,” Goggio said, “which links me to more respect for other things that are in the natural world. I guess my respect for them kind of also makes me want to research more and not just about honeybees, but all kinds of things.” Also anchoring much of her art is a stoic depiction of Mother Nature. Goggio said her Mother Nature paintings are some of her most popular, offering viewers a sense of serenity. “I describe her as not a depiction of a woman, not a portrait of a woman, but my symbolization of Mother Nature,” Goggio said. “ I also put her in a very specific pose for specific reasons: broad shoulders to show the strength of Mother Nature. She’s surrounded by flowers and greenery, the delicate side of nature, and pollinators, the living side of nature.” Storytelling is a key part of Goggio’s process – she typically comes up with the title of a piece before she even starts working on it. She described the story of one of her pieces, titled “To Bee or Not To Bee,” as a visualization of the earth without bees, going from green and bright, to gray and lifeless. “There’s always a theme, always a story, everything I paint is about something specific,” Goggio said. “It’s not just left to chance.” Goggio’s work, as well as fiber arts from Sue Benner and watercolors from Michael Ireland, will be featured at Fine Line until Sept. 19. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Door County's Peninsula Pulse by Sally Collins July 27th 2018 Art with Honesty Kristy Goggio was protective of her coloring books as a child. “My coloring books were really nice,” the Kenosha-based artist admitted with a laugh. “My cousin was a scribbler. I would hate when she would do that to one of my coloring books. I’d turn a page and, ‘ugh.’ One year I got a bunch of coloring books and the ones I didn’t like I gave to Tammy.” Though there was no aha moment, Goggio knew early on art would be a part of her career. She went on to graduate with a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, receiving scholarships and recognition for her artwork along the way. Following graduation, she went on to own a frame shop and gallery, Arc East Art & Frames. “Back in those days, people didn’t buy pre-framed posters like they do now at big box stores. You went to a frame shop, looked through poster catalogs,” she explained. Customers would flip through the catalogs, order their favorite, and she would frame the print for them. When Goggio closed up shop in ’99 her husband said, “You really want to be an artist. You haven’t given yourself the opportunity. Give yourself a year, see what happens.” She took her husband’s advice and submitted her work to various poster companies. Wild Apple Graphics sent her a contract. For 14 years, Goggio created artwork for home décor items – from placemats to kitchen towels to throw rugs – sold in Bed, Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s and more. “I learned a lot about how to paint really fast,” she said. “When you’re contracted you gotta keep production going. I basically produced the same kind of image over and over and over again.” While she worked for Wild Apple, she managed to find time and energy to explore her personal creative instincts as well. “I did want to create my own work that [Wild Apple] didn’t have their thumb on,” she said. “And then I needed a place to sell them. I started submitting to galleries.” Fine Line Designs Gallery in Ephraim, owned by Shari Gransee, was one of those galleries. “I am very honored to be in that gallery,” said Goggio. “Fine Line is definitely in the top five galleries in Wisconsin. In the artist world, there’s a lot who want to get in there. Shari is great.” Before her work graces the walls of Fine Line, and galleries across the country, they begin in Goggio’s attic studio. Though most paintings feature similar subjects – a woman, birds and bits of nature – each is distinct and comes together in its own, sometimes surprising, way. “I want to let things happen,” said Goggio. “There’s this technique I do where I lay down oil paint, then lay a different color over it, a thin layer.” She then splashes the canvas with a turpentine mixture, creating circles, patterns, little surprises. “It’s always fascinating. I don’t know what will happen. I go from super, super messy then I clean it up – for me it’s much easier than starting with a white canvas.” She usually has four to 10 paintings in various stages of completion at once. “Some are little, some are huge, some I just started, some I put away for a few weeks if I can’t figure out what to do next,” she said. “When you approach a craft that way, instead of a rigid, paint-by-number way, I think you’re being a little more honest with creativity. You start something – maybe you don’t have every thought figured out – but in the middle you learn things, things shift and change. Hopefully you discover something new.” Goggio lets the “mess” dictate where the painting will go. “I paint a bunch of colors and then start to formulate a composition over it,” she said. “If I get a bright blue next to a bright red, that might say to me, that’s where the hat starts.” It’s no accident that the hats of the women she paints are spilling over with poppies, pine cones, fruit, beehives and bird nests, Goggio has a degree in horticulture, keeps bees, and finds sanctuary in her own backyard garden. “It all connects for me,” she said. “I’m very interested in nature, fascinated by it.” She calls the women she depicts in her paintings a “nod to Mother Nature,” who nurtures and shelters the life around her. Though Goggio admits that if she truly wanted to portray Mother Nature faithfully she would need to include violent, destructive representations as well. “She’s not always a nurturer,” she said. “I have sketches of the darker side of Mother Nature. I’ve shown them to gallery owners and they don’t want me to paint them. I understand that.” When she’s not painting or collecting honey, Goggio can sometimes be found teaching painting and drawing. “I love to teach,” she said. “I love the fascination people get when they realize they’ve created something, watching people go from, ‘I can’t do that’ to ‘Wow! I did that.’” She also enjoys sharing the process. “I think a lot of people have this misnomer that artists see something and then paint it. There’s more to it – steps, little tricks. When you learn the tricks, things get easier.” |
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