Christie Devereaux
Ms. Devereaux is an award-winning artist both in the United States and abroad. She studied at Pratt Institute and has a degree in Industrial Design. She also is a modern dancer who has performed with famed Robert Wilson and was on tour for a year with the Electric Circus.
In 1969, Ms. Devereaux moved to Italy. While in Italy, she worked as an industrial designer and graphic artist. In addition, she was commissioned to paint portraits and commemorative paintings. Her most noted portrait is of Padre Pio, which is in a permanent collection in the Museum of Padre Pio, Pietrelcina, Italy.
In 1980, she returned to the New York. She has continuously participated in numerous invitational gallery and museum exhibits. Her work has been on exhibit at the Lever House, the Prince George Gallery, and the Pen and Brush Gallery all in NYC, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, and in New Jersey at the Morris Museum, Morristown, and Monmouth Museum, Lincroft. Her solo shows include the Interchurch Center in New York, NY, Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, NY and the National Association of Women Artists gallery, New York, NY.
Ms. Devereaux has been reviewed and interviewed in an array of magazines. Ed McCormack, Art Critic for Gallery & Studio Magazine, has written that “Devereaux revises the tradition of Turner, Constable, and Winslow Homer with a conviction that no other contemporary painter of marine scenes…can lay claim.”
