Born in New Jersey, artist Monica Loncola has been painting and drawing all of her life. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio art from Rosemont College in Pennsylvania. After she graduated she continued studies in Medical Illustration and began teaching at the High School level in Red Bank, New Jersey. Since 1980, Ms. Loncola has enjoyed being a self-employed artist. Having lived in NYC and Washington DC throughout the 1980’s, she relocated to Northern California and has traveled to Europe studying and painting in France, Italy and the Caribbean.
Creating original and commissioned works, many of her paintings combine a variety of media and symbolic images juxtaposed in a dreamlike state of recollection. In some works, architectural fragments and botanicals float through the air in an ethereal fashion that suggests spiritual passages throughout civilization. Her technical prowess for detailed realism and her ability to deftly fuse it with abstraction achieve works of art that are an eloquent manifestation of visual synergy.
Ms. Loncola has exhibited her works in Museums and Galleries in the United States, Japan, the US Embassy in The Gambia, Africa, and Puerto Rico.
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