It is with great passion that international award-winning artist, Ardith Starostka,
has a desire to create works of art that capture the likeness and emotion of the
human face and form. Primarily working in oils, she has produced figurative and
portrait paintings that now grace the walls of collectors, corporations and
museums across the United States.
Starostka has exhibited and won awards in an extensive list of international as
well as national competitions, which include; the Art Renewal Center International
Juried Show, the Portrait Society of America's International Portrait & Figurative
Competition, the International Guild of Realism Juried Competition and the
National Arts for The Parks Juried Competition, Oil Painters of America
International Annual Exhibition, the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society
National Exhibition and the Nebraska Biennial. Museums have also exhibited the
artists works, which include: The R.W. Norton Art Gallery Shreveport, LA, Appleton
Museum of Art, Ocala, FL; Albany Museum of Art Albany, GA; Butler Institute of
American Art, Youngstown, Ohio and; Wright Brothers Museum at Kitty Hawk,
Outer Banks, NC.
The artist has also been more recently featured in publications such as the
International Artist magazine, The Epoch Times, American Art Collector magazine,
Southwest Art magazine, Plein Air magazine, the Art & Freedom publication
sponsored by the MEAM museum in Barcelona, Spain.
* This statement has been provided directly by the artist in association to their 16th International ARC Salon entries. This content has not been edited for typos or grammatical errors and has not been vetted for accuracy.