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A Carbon County artist is one of 86 Pennsylvania artists featured in the prestigious Art Of the State 2023 exhibition. Yvonne Wright, a multimedia artist from Jim Thorpe, is featured for her painting "Innocence Lost". Wright owns and operates a small art gallery, Studio YNW, at 100 West Broadway in Jim Thorpe showcasing primarily her own work. Every year for the past five decades, the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, together with the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation, presents the Art of the State exhibition as an annual juried event open to artists and craftspeople across the commonwealth.

Every year for the past five decades, the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, together with the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation, presents the Art of the State exhibition open to artists and craftspeople across the commonwealth as an annual juried event. This year, already in its 56th year, the Art of the State 2023 (which opened September 10th in conjunction with Harrisburg’s 35th Gallery Walk) offers a cohesive theme centered on what Pennsylvania’s art is. [...] This year’s exhibition introduces 86 works from 29 counties, selected out of 1,915 submitted works from 559 artists in various categories from paintings, works on paper, photography and digital media,  to sculpture and craft. [...] This year, Carbon County is represented by Jim Thorpe artist, Yvonne Wright (aka Yvonne Nowicka-Wright), a multimedia artist, who has had a rewarding career in fine arts encompassing international awards and works in public and private collections (e.g. several of her drawings...

Have you ever gone to see a fine art exhibition that requires a magnifying glass to fully appreciate its content? If yes, you will concur that there is something very gentle, elegant and undeniably precious in a form of art that can be enjoyed and collected for its exquisitely small dimensions. Requiring a close proximity of viewing (sometimes with the aid of a magnifying glass) such works provide an intimate encounter with a world of artistic expression that is full of minute details, delightful narrations and clever aesthetic articulations achieved by artists who specialize in small-size analytical works - ushering in their viewing audiences most genuine respect mixed with amazement. 
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The sweltering temperatures of summer did not prevent the many cultural events of 2022 from going ahead as planned, and neither did it discourage the participating audiences from attending them. One of such cultural attractions, famous for wooing both art connoisseurs and art lovers, and generating multitudes of international visitors is The Venice Art Biennale (La Biennale d'Arte di Venezia) - an indoor and outdoor art exposition held biannually in Italy between April and November in the historic city of Venice, as one of the largest and most important cultural events in the world, dedicated to showcasing contemporary visual art in its many forms. 
Primary focused on fine art, this year’s 59th edition also includes film, theater, music, dance and architecture, spanning across several thousand square yards of exhibition space, engulfing most of Venice’s historic buildings and modern pavilions, in the effort to host contemporary cultural productions from 75 countries...

In 2021, Yvonne Wright (a.k.a. Nowicka-Wright) won FIRST PLACE in ACRYLIC category at the 88th Annual International Exhibition of Fine Art in Miniature, organized by the prestigious Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers Society of Washington D.C. (the oldest miniature art society in the United Sates, founded in 1931). The exhibition opened November 21st, 2021 and ended January 8th, 2022. A total of 714 artworks from 9 countries were in exhibit. Yvonne's miniature painting "Destiny" executed in acrylic on board, size 4" x4" sold afterwords.

When you look into a painting created by Yvonne Wright, a sense of wonder freezes your eyes upon the canvas. She draws you into a story she tells through her artwork with an attitude, a perspective of life featuring multiple images perceived through the irrationality of the unconscious mind. Wright, a retired commercial and graphic artist, uses brushes and cameras to produce her visual themes that are on display at her gallery at Studio YNW located at 100 W. Broadway in Jim Thorpe.

A self-proclaimed perfectionist whose creative talents coexist nicely with her university learned skills, Wright spends up to six months brushing layers and layers of oil paints on canvas until she captures the specific message that she intends to communicate through what she calls her “language of visualization.” “My paintings are meant to be decoded,” she said. “There is a message in my work you discover through symbolic interpretation of people, animals, objects and elements of nature I...