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Queens artist to debut ‘glitzy’ paintings in Bayside
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N E W S
BY JENNA BAGCAL
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@jenna_bagcal
In less than two weeks, Lisa Gindi
will be adding a touch of glamor to a
yearly Bayside art show.
On Sunday, Jan. 13, the self-taught
artist will join 35 artists at The Castle at
Fort Totten to debut her newest works
at the 18th Annual Winter Art Show
organized by the Bayside Historical
Society. She first began participating in
the show back in 2012.
Each artist will show two works
each, including sculptures, watercolor
paintings and photographs. Gindi's
paintings are from her "Gindi Glitz"
art collection which she began working
on in 2008. One is a take on a Life
magazine cover from 1962 featuring
Marilyn Monroe while the other is a
surprise for the guests who attend the
event.
Gindi's love of art began long before
she decided to pursue it as a full-time
career. In 1985 she won an award
for best student artist at Edward R.
Murrow High School after she decorated
the school's display cases with
her hand-drawn fashion designs. Her
hobby turned lucrative when she decided
to design tie-dye beach cover-ups to
pay her way through college.
"My mother didn't have money for
college so I had to pay for my own
tuition. So I was making T-shirts for
these women on the beach and they
the stores didn't have all the different
kinds of sizes," Gindi said.
She recalled how she would go to
the store to buy Hanes T-shirts in
extra large sizes and make attractive
cover-ups that the stores did not provide
back in the 1980s. Gindi said
that women were "fighting over" her
designs when she went to sell them at
a private beach in Brooklyn.
Gindi added that when the tie-dye
designs got messed up, she would paint
over them by hand and charge extra for
the added labor.
The artist went to the Fashion
Institute of Technology where she
majored in fashion marketing and sales
and pursued that straight after college
in the 1990s. She then transitioned
to teaching and earned her master's
of science in education from Adelphi
University.
But art was always something she
practiced even as a teacher, so she left
her job as a tenured high school math
teacher and decided to pursue art as a
career.
The Winter Art Show will feature
two selections from her "Gindi Glitz"
collection which is based on a collage
style that incorporates images
from high-fashion brands like Gucci,
Louis Vuitton and Coach. Her collection
includes paintings and mixed-media
giclee prints that portray pop culture
figures, recreations of fashion ads
or her own original designs.
"Say I'm not doing glitter or stones
anymore and it's plain. I have to have
some kind of aspect that still gives
you the concept of glitz, of the good
life and things we dream about but we
really can't afford," Gindi said.
Gindi's works often include glitter,
magazine clippings and rhinestones
and jewels that she's collected from old
clothing items over the years.
Her work is available for purchase
on lisagindiart.com. She donates parts
of the proceeds from her works to one
charity a year.
The art show will take place at 208
Totten Ave. on Jan. 13 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Admission is $5 at the door. For more
information visit baysidehistorical.org
or call 718-352-1548.
Jenna Bagcal/THE COURIER
Lisa Gindi will debut two new works in
Bayside this month.
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