All About Vikki North and her ArtBackground...
Vikki received her education in fine art at Cal Poly and was immediately recognized for her talents. The California University purchased her first college studio oil painting. She had placement on the Dean’s Honor list and received the Cal Poly Women’s Club Merit Award. Vikki worked in the field of television and film for twenty years. She was considered one of the preeminent artists working in the world. Her credits include title designs for NYPD Blue and Murder One. She's done promos for ABC, Universal, Tri-Star and Warner Bros., and commercials for virtually every major advertising agency in the U.S. She crafted the spectacular special effects featured in The Way Things Work: In Mammoth 3D, one of the attractions at the Sony Entertainment Center Metreon in San Francisco. She was awarded two International Monitor Awards for best Design and Editorial for Stephen Bochco’s Murder One .She is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmy’s) and served with the Clio Awards. Before retiring in 2003, her last accomplishment was a PSA Project with actor James Woods for the American Stroke Association. The celebrities cast for the job included Sharon Stone, Don Rickles, Patrick Dempsey, Penny Marshall, and Michael Clark Duncan. “Being a real artist gave me an edge over my contempories during my years in television. Learning how to run and tweak visual effects equipment is a task most can do with a little effort. Pushing it beyond its conventional limits for artistic achievement is a passion inherent only to an artist.”
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Vikki's Paintings...
Vikki North’s paintings are original art created on finest canvas. Her medium is oil and acrylic; She is a contemporary artist and works in figurative, symbolic and fantasy genre. She also does portraiture and custom work for her clients. (Contact the artist) ‘I’ve always been an artist from as early as I can remember. I sold my first painting at the age of eight years old. It was about that time that my Dad decided I needed a better artist signature for my paintings. He came up with the spelling of my name. Many decades post, I still sign my paintings that way.”
Red Chair Series...“As big as my house is, I can only sit in one chair at a time.” (Russell Simmons, Do You, 2007)
Visiting an antique store, there they stood. At every corner and turn, chairs of various shapes and sizes, like puppies in the pet shop, screaming, “ Take me! Pick me!” As I walked past these pre-owned treasures, they seemed to hold the energy of people long gone and decades past. We each have our own chair at the dinner table, office, school or church. We select it, claim it and specify where it is to reside. To be without it is disrupting to our balance. We often hold on to the chair even when it’s old and tattered, like a precious old friend. Our chair gives us comfort. We give our chair a small part of our soul. My chair is red. What is color is yours?
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