Floravita - About Floravita

ABOUT FLORAVITA

Floravitas background includes an extensive education in the arts. By the age of four she began her studies in dance and shortly thereafter she proceeded to art and piano instruction with the same intensity to excel in each new endeavor. Jenny went on to win awards with her art and dance through her school years and to continue on at the University of California Santa Cruz where she completed her formal education in art.

Jenny Floravita has been featured in the premier interior design magazine Open House Magazine since 2001. She has done numerous solo shows throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including some of the most popular fine arts festivals like Palo Alto Festival of the Arts. She has also published art marketing articles for Art Calendar Magazine.

The tropics have always been a place that I hold dear in my heart; the air and its dense humid nature; the scent of the Caribbean; the hues and textures of the cocoa palm I love everything about the tropics. It was in Florida while attending a reception of her work at an international gallery that Floravita discovered the wonderfully serene and world re-known Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens. I knew that my career as an artist would be forever changed by this enchanting eighty-three acre tropical wonderland. I realized that Florida was only a wonderful beginning of a whole lush equator awaiting me! It is my lifes mission to continually visit these gorgeous climates throughout the world and gather together the wonderful feelings, sounds, smells and sights through my passion for painting.

Listed are a few of Floravitas exhibits, featured articles & awards. Floravitas oil, watercolor and glass chandelier paintings have appeared in galleries and shows around the US and in Dubai. Floravita also exhibits at high-end art festivals in CA.

Mendocino Art Center, 2009
Weber Art Gallery, 2009
Weber Fridley Art Gallery, 2008
Kumquat Art Gallery, SF, spring and winter solo shows, 2008present
Represented by Parades Publishing, Fine Arts, 2007present
Daily Painters.com Gallery 2006present
Art Miami in the Wynwood Art District, 2007
Art Miami, 2007
Lorelie Cove Art Gallery, 2007
Not Only Baja Art Gallery, 2005-2007
Featured Artist, Evergreen Fine Arts & Fine Crafts Festival, 2007
Featured Artist, Walnut Creek Art & Wine Festival, 2006
Spaces Magazine, featured artist article, 2006
Best of the Best, Danville Fine Arts Gallery exhibit, 2006
Genesis Fine Art Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2005
Blackhawk Art Gallery, 2000-2005
110 Degree Magazine, featured artist article, 2004
Solo Exhibit, Coral Gables International Art Gallery, in Coral Galbes and Miami FL, 2003
Solo Exhibit, Coral Gables International Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2003
Pen & Brush Exhibit, New York City, 2002
Ashley Fine Arts Gallery, Capitola, CA, 2000-2002
Featured Artist in Open House Magazine, 2001 to present
Sally Bookman Gallery, Capitola, CA 1999-2000

In addition, to many, many other awards from Floravita's youth...
Santa Cruz Natural History Museum exhibit, 1996
Cover Painting for Chinquapin, an arts publication, 1994
Four California State Seal Awards and four Governors Medallion, which are the highest awards that can be presented to a high school student in the arts, 1990-1992
Award of Excellence in Fine Art, Bank of America, 1992