I work with matter at the threshold where it resists resolution. Wax, resin, paper, and light are not neutral materials in my practice — they retain, deform, and suspend what passes through them. Heat, pressure, and time are not only processes, but forces that destabilize form and prevent closure.
My works operate as bodies under tension — surfaces that accumulate, conceal, and release traces without fully revealing them. What appears is always partial, interrupted, or in the process of becoming something else.There is no stable image.Only a condition: suspended, dense, and unresolved.
Across painting, object, and installation, I construct situations where matter records transformation — where presence persists precisely because it cannot be fully contained. The work exists in this instability: between surface and depth, containment and rupture, visibility and opacity. It is in this tension that meaning is produced — not as a fixed reading, but as a continuous negotiation between what is held and what escapes.
PBS-TV Art Show segment aired in 2010 feauturing the work of artist Silvana LaCreta Ravena
Silvana LaCreta Ravena: Embodiments of Art and Psychology / by Adam Eisenstat
Silvana LaCreta Ravena is a versatile painter who works in oils, resin and encaustic, creating series of abstract pieces inspired by her passion for the human soul. She is fascinated by the connections between art and psychology. Their paintings and sculptural collages, meticulous in the use of color and textures, invite the viewer to dig into the layers of material hidden in these surfaces, in a poetic archeology.
She also creates wearable art collections of jewelry in which leftover fragments of her large sculptural encaustics are encased in resin, metal and leather. These leftovers are her precious stones and help her to orchestrate bold shapes in surprising angles, translating her viosion of a confidence-inspiring beauty.
Further acquaintance with Silvana’s unique biography and the sources/inspirations behind her oeuvre reveal an artist who has deftly marshaled passion, intellectual rigor, and solid technique to create a genuinely original body of work. Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, she was born in family in which psychology and art are blended. According to Silvana, the open spirit and the generosity of her parents, along with their creativity and intuition, awakened in her and her siblings the curiosity about people’s minds and their forms expression. Both her sisters in Brazil work in film (one is a director and the other film editor), one of them being also a practicing psychologist, as well as her brother and herself.Her work as a clinical psychologist and her background as an artist inspired her to explore in more depth those areas where art and academia, theory and practice converge. She was educated as a psychologist and also holds degrees in art therapy, art history and a master’s degree in fine arts.
She has explored a variety of art forms during her life. The work as a production designer in film and, later, video art, led to her being offered a fellowship to study art and design at New York University, which she had to decline in order to finish her psychology degree. Her favorite art form, though, has always been painting. When she was four years old her parents gave her a set of watercolors and an easel. Little did they realize the career they had set in motion, for with that easel she officially began her life as artist!
From a young age, she went to museums and galleries with her family and, according to Silvana, she can still recall the day her mother introduced her to an art book featuring works by the Italian Renascence master Raphael Sanzio: “Those images stroke me immediately”, says Silvana, “I asked my mother what that was and she told me: this is painting, my dear. From that moment on I fell totally in love with painting”.
At the age of eight, she took her first art classes with Bernardo Cid, a well-known Brazilian painter, a seminal experience that undoubtedly laid the groundwork for her future artistic endeavors. She continued with art workshops and courses throughout her youth. With art already such a big part of her life, by the time she was ready for college she pursued a degree in psychology. This choice grew out of her interest in the connections between fine art and behavior, especially the psychological dynamics behind memory and self-expression. After earning her degree in psychology, she worked in a clinical setting for many years while pursuing degrees in art therapy and art history.
At the time, in addition to showing her art works in art centers, she also taught art and art history. Since moving to the USA, she has established her studio in Minnesota and focused all her energy on painting. She is represented by galleries in multiple cities in the US and Brazil, has exhibited regularly in various venues throughout the US, EU and Brazil, and has received prestigious art awards in the US and Germany. Her work has also been featured in national and international art publications, in television art shows and her pieces are owned by collectors both in the US and Brazil.
Silvana’s nontraditional combinations of techniques brings further variety to her pieces through the use of custom-made colors and additional manipulations of the materials. With different mixtures of wax and resin, for example, she creates layers in her paintings intended to bring the layers of the psyche to life; the paintings’ textures are not merely symbolized, but are present on the canvas. The work is decidedly three-dimensional and demands a live experience—it is impossible to perceive the paintings’ rich textures by seeing them online or in print only.
The unique combination of elements Silvana LaCreta Ravena brings to her work — artistic, personal, and professional — gives her the credibility of an original. While each individual piece of hers certainly “speaks for itself,” when seen in the context of the artist’s background, ideas, and singular technique, it clearly gains a degree of vitality and significance that indicates the true measure of the work. From her first watercolor at age of four to the thesis she wrote for her last degree, her education, life experiences and her professional endeavors have been synthesized with her art practice, serving as its natural background. ( by Adam Eisenstat, art writer, for Xanadu Gallery, AZ, USA).
SILVANA LACRETA RAVENA E O GESTO QUE ESCUTA.
by Roger Monteiro ( editor, Revista Safari n.04, ed. Zebra, dez. 2025)
A obra de Silvana Lacreta Ravena se organiza como um ecossistema de camadas em que cera, óleo, resina e pigmento atuam como instrumentos de edição do tempo.
A encáustica não surge como efeito decorativo, mas como método: acolhe vestígios, preserva processos, permite correções sem apagar a história do gesto. Interessa-lhe a fricção entre matéria e memória, superfícies que respiram, bordas que não se escondem, transparências que convocam um olhar demorado, capaz de ler no ritmo do fazer.
Seu vocabulário é tátil e consciente do erro como linguagem. Dobras, veladuras e marcas de passagem substituem a ânsia pela imagem “resolvida” por uma ética do processo: o resíduo se converte em estrutura, o acidente, em decisão. Assim, pintura, colagem e escultura deixam de ser categorias rígidas e passam a se comportar como modos que se interpenetram, guiados pelo que a matéria pede. O resultado é uma presença que não se esgota no visual: ela se mantém no corpo de quem observa.
No plano cromático, a artista trabalha temperaturas e espessuras de luz mais do que paletas descritivas. A translucidez da cera cria zonas de suspensão que fazem o olhar vibrar no entre, enquanto contrastes de densidade organizam a leitura como um tempo respirado. Não há ênfase em “efeitos”, e sim em ritmos: pulsações que aproximam e afastam elementos, definindo pausas, acelerações e ênfases que o olho percebe antes de nomear.
Quando esse pensamento chega ao território do vestir, a pesquisa preserva a mesma lógica. As chamadas esculturas de corpo transformam linha e volume em contorno habitável: não são ornamentos, mas dispositivos de experiência. A forma se completa no movimento, na respiração, na escuta do corpo que a ativa. Cada uso reescreve o desenho, reiterando a ideia de camada agora aplicada à pele, memória que se acende no atrito com o presente.
Com a escuta refinada por sua formação em psicologia, Ravena trata o material como lugar de cuidado, a cera que guarda, a resina que suspende, a linha que abraça. Em vez de certezas icônicas, oferece estados: presenças provisórias e intensas em que olhar e corpo participam da construção de sentido. É nessa continuidade entre superfície, volume e pele que sua linguagem se reconhece e permanece.
“Retrabalhar, religar, suspender aspectos diferentes ou inusitados sempre permeou meus processos criativos e fazem parte de uma abordagem mais ampla, talvez mesmo uma postura de observação da vida, baseada na ideia de reconexão.” (in Revista Safari n. 4, ed. Zebra, dez. 2025).
Silvana LaCreta Ravena, MFA
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Minneapolis, MN, USA
São Paulo, SP, Brazi
Art Representation:
Casa 100+ by Cours de Arts, Gramado, Brazil and Hannut, Bélgica
Galeria VerArte, São Paulo, Brazil
Wendy Frieze Gallerist, Minneapolis, USA
Mentorships: Sergio Fingermmann (2022 – current), SP - BR
Flavia Coelho (2025- current), SP - BR
Marcie Sodermann (2010 -2016), MN - USA
Loretta Beabeau (2007- 2009), MN - USA
Work Experience
Brazilian-born professional artist working at Silvana LaCreta Ravena Studio (since 2006)
Art history teacher (SP, Brazil, 1996-2005)
Art Therapist and Clinical Psychotherapist (1985-1998)
Languages spoken: Portuguese, fluent English, reading Italian and reading French.
Education
2004-2006 Master of Fine Arts, Santa Marcelina College, SP, Brazil.
1997-1999 Post Graduate degree: Art History Specialist, Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, SP, Brazil
1993-1996 Post Graduate degree: Art Therapist Specialist,Sedes Sapientiae Institute,SP, Brazil
1980-1985 Bachelor of Science: Psychology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, SP,
Brazil
Selected Solo Art Exhibits ( Exposições Individuais):
2026 "Noites da Floresta", Galeria VerArte, São Paulo, SP- BR
2024 “Conversas com o Tempo”, Arte100+, Porto Alegre , RS,BR
2024 “ Silvana Ravena”, Zaro Design, Araraquara, SP – BR
2023 « Capoeira », Vera Simoes curator, Galeria VerArte e Cia Metropolitana de SP – SP, BR
2022 « Noites da Floresta », Vera Simoes curator, Galeria Ver Arte & Cosi, SP - BR
2020 « Arqueologia da Cor II », Vera Simoes curator, Galeria VerArte & Metro SP, SP, BR
2019 “Arqueologia da Cor”, Vera Simoes curator, Galeria VerArte, São Paulo- SP, Brazil
2018 “New Embodiments, Luisa Vincent curator, Veronique Wantz Gallery, Minneapolis,USA
2017 “Travel embodiments”, Wendy Frieze curator, Nash Gallery, MN, USA
2106 “Wanderlust”, Meredith Mowry curator, Artwork Network Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 “Interdimensional”, Veronique Want curator, VW Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2015 “Works on Paper”, Wendy Frieze curator, collection WM, Minneapolis, USA
2015 “Silvana Ravena”, Owatonna Art Center, Owatonna, MN, USA
2015 “Vivid Visions: Pristas, Ravena, Botero”, Artwork Network Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
2014 “Silvana L. Ravena”, Meredith Mowry curator, Artwork Network Gallery, CO, USA
2013 “Silvana LaCreta Ravena”, Artwork Network Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
2013 “Moroni and Ravena”, Donna Bruni curator, University of Minnesota Clinic, MN, USA
2013 “Textured Translations”, The Phipps Center for The Arts, Hudson, WI, USA
2013 “An Archeology of Color”, Bloomington Center for the Arts, Bloomington, MN, USA
2011 “In Search of Beauty”, Wendy Frieze curator, Nina Bliese Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2011 “Artwork Network Gallery Features Silvana Ravena”, AN Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
2011 “Off The Wall”, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN, USA
2009 ”Encaustics by Silvana LaCreta Ravena”, Hopkins Center for the Arts, MN, USA
2009 “Memory Moves”,Margie Bohlander curator, Bohlander Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2008 “Ravena and Dollar”, WARM Gallery, St. Paul – MN, USA
2005 “Women Sitting on a Bench In a Piazza”, Carmen Perrone Gallery, SP, Brazil
1998 “Daily Scenes”, Bank of Brasil, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
1997 “Transparency and Light,” Municipal Theatre of Bebedouro, SP, Brazil
1997 “Interior”, Caixa Econômica Federal Bank of Bebedouro City, SP,Brazil
Selected Group Art Exhibits (Coletivas):
2026 São Paulo 472, Vera Simōes curator, Fachada Cj, Nacional, São Paulo, BR
2025 “No Silencio A Vanguarda”, Tiago d’Arles curator, Casa 100+Cours de Arts, Hannut, Belgium
2025 Retrato ou Paisagem II, Renato Negrão curator, Centro Cultural O Jardim, SP,BR
2025 FSSP, Flavia Coelho e Carmem Pousada curators, Centro Cultural Britanico, SP, BR
2025 Fotogramas do Cotidiano, Angela Oliveira curator ,Museu Hugo Daros, Gramado, RS, BR
2025 Mostra Glass, Novo Hamburgo, RS, BR
2025 Exposição Universo, Angela Oliveira curator, Wilde Gallery, Paris, France
2025 «Retrato ou Paisagem», Renato Negrão curator, Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes,
Tiradentes, MG, BR
2025 Inn/Out 01, Flavia Coelho curator, Galpão 556, SP, BR
2025 Verticalidade e Pluralidade, The Coast Gallery, SP, BR
2025 SP-471, Vera Simoes curator, Galeria Verarte no Cj Nacional, SP, BR
2024 Abstrações, Sergio Fingermann curator, Espaço Contraponto, SP, BR
2024 Bandeiras pelo Meio Ambiente, Angela Oliveira curator, Art100+, Porto Alegre, RS, BR
2024 Pontos de Luz, Tania Sciacco curator, Scciaco at SPHaus, SP, BR
2024 Aconchego, Flavia Coelho e Carmem Pousada curators, InGallery at Tapetah, SP, BR
2024 Mares, Rios y Colores, Angel Oliveira curator, Galeria Art100, Barcelona, Spain
2024 Projeto São Paulo, Vera Simoes curator, Galeria VerArte, SP, BR
2024 Cinco Fotógrafos, Galeria Verarte at Livraria Cultura, SP-SP, BR
2023 Bandeiras y Colores , Arte2 curators, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Coletiva by Sciacco Studio, Fundação Gustavo Rosa, SP, BR
2023 Bandeiras e Cores: Conexão Natureza, Arte 2 curator, mar de Guajiru, CE, BR
2023 Bandeiras e Cores, Arte2 curators, Centro dos Correios, RJ – RJ
2023 Coup Galeria, Tania Sciacco curator, Sciacco Estudio, Lisboa, PT
2023 Art that Inhabits Us, April, Art2 curators, Brussels, Bald Art Galerie, Belgium
2023 Bandeiras e Cores entre Nós, Art 2 curators, Galeria n.1, Buzios, RJ, BR
2023 Arte que Nos Habita, Art 2 curators, New Gallery, São Paulo, SP, BR
2023 O que te encanta em SP ?, cj. Nacional, Vera Simões curator, SP, BR
2022 Amazonia, Valquiria Iacocca & Muriah Brasil curators, Casa Odisseia, SP, BR
2022 Modernismo, Vera Simões curator, Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BR
2022 Bicentenario da Independencia, Casa de Portugal, Vera Simões curator, SP, BR
2022 Centenario do Modernismo no Cj. Nacional, Vera Simões curator SP, BR
2021 Coletiva, Galeria Verarte, São Paulo, BR
2020 Coletiva at Galeria VerArte, São Paulo, SP , BR
2019 Coletiva, Galeria VerArte, SP, Brazil, June
2018 Fall Salon, Veronique Wantz Gallery, MN, USA
2018 Group Show at Wendy Frieze Gallerist, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2018 Coletiva Inaugural, Galeria Verarte, São Paulo, Brazil
2018 The Locals, Veronique Wantz Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2017 Summer Show, Wendy Frieze Gallerist and Nash, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2016 Mind Your Beeswax, The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2015 Summer Show, Veronique Wantz Gallery, Minneapolis, MN,USA
2015 International Exposure, NT Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2014 Healing with Arts, Hudson Hospital, WI, USA
2013 Arts and Healing, Westfileds Hospital, New Richmond, WI, USA
2013 Above and Beyond, Veronique Wantz Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2013 Gallery Group Show, Veronique Wantz Gallery,Minneapolis, MN, USA
2013 Eight International Artists, Artists Haven Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
2013 Earth, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2012 Eight International Artists, Artist Haven Gallery, FL, USA
2012 Woman and Water Rights III: Concerning Water”, The Phipps, Hudson, WI, USA
2012 International Contemporary Masters 2012, Southern Nevada Museum, Las Vegas, USA
2012 13 International, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL , USA
2011 Eight Artists, Artists Haven Gallery, Ft Lauderdale, FL , USA
2011 Consequential Fusion : Messages in Wax, Morro Bay Art Center, Morro Bay, CA, USA
2011 Abstractions, Woman Made Gallery , Chicago, IL, USA
2011 International Contemporary Artists, Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts – Las Vegas, NE, USA
2011 Woman Made Gallery Gala Fundraise Event – Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2011 Temporality - 2011 WARM Exhibit, Grain Bell Bottle House, Minneapolis, , MN, USA
2011 Arizona Aqueous, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac , AZ, USA
2010 Rivers of Regenerations ”, Cascade Meadow Science Center, Rochester, MN, USA
2010 The Art of Mentorship, Ines Greenberg Gallery, Bloomington, Bloomington, MN, USA
2010 A World of Artists , Artist Haven Gallery, AH Gallery, Ft Lauderdale, FL, USA
2010 Minnetonka Center for the Arts Biennial, MCA, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2010 Eight International Artists, AH Gallery, Ft Lauderdale, FL, USA
2010 International Contemporar Masters III, Southern Nevada Museum, Las Vegas, NE, USA
2010 Women and Water Rights, Lucy Lippard curator, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
2009 Mirando al Sur, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2009 Travel Stories, Altered Esthetics Gallery , Minneapolis, MN, USA
2009 The Struggle Within, Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2009 WARM Chronicles , WARM, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2009 Sketch it out , APW Gallery , NYC, NY, USA
2009 World of Imagination Vol.02, APW Gallery , NYC, NY, USA
2009 Rejected!, Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2008 ART ATTACK , Northrup King Building, Minneapolis, MN, USA,
2008 MCA Annual Juried Exhibition, Minnetonka Center for the Art, MN, USA
2008 Art Spring Collection, Belfry Center, Minneapolis, MN , USA
2008 Bitter Fruits, Anxiety Dreams, Althered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2008 Midwest Sanctuary, Althered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2006 Masters Degree Exhibit, Eugene Villon Gallery, SP, Brazil
2001 Art Salon of Barueri, City Hall Theatre of Barueri, SP, Brazil
1998 II Architecture Design Exhibition, Bebedouro, SP, Brazil
1997 Bebedouro Art Salon , City Hall of Bebedouro, SP, Brazil
1996 Colors Transparencies II, Mokiti Okada Foundation, SP, Brazil
Feiras de Arte
2026 Punta Art Fair, Art100by Cours des Arts and Maggy Gallery, Punta del Este, UR
2023 New Jersey Art Fair, Sciacco Studio, NJ – NY, USA
2019 Spectrum Miami, Art Blen Gallery, Miami , FL, USA
2015 Vanguard Visionaires, Art Platform NYC, ARTE EXPO New York , NYC, USA
2014 ArtExpo New York City, Artblend Gallery, NYC, NY, USA
Private Art Collections partial list
Mr and Mrs Thompson Peña, Minneapolis, USA
Mr and Ms. Barrett, Denver, USA
Msr. R. Elise, Belgique, EU
Ms. D. Hoffer, Denver, USA
Mr. Y. Salon, Denver, USA
Mrs. L. Vincent, Sydney, Australia
Mrs. K. Scully, Virginia, USA
Mr. K. Kirvida, Minnesota, USA
Mrs. M. Kunz, Minnesota, USA
Msr. W. Frieze, Minnesota, USA
Mrs. H. Dawe, Minnesota, USA
Mrs. and Mr. Lattu, MN, USA
Mrs. T Guedes, Colorado, USA
Mr . J Horejs, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Mr. and Mrs. P. Angelone, MT, USA
Mr. and Mrs. J. Peppel, MN, USA
Mrs. A. Merlin, Minnesota, USA
Mrs. K. Huertas , São Paulo, Brazil
Mr. H. LaCreta Jr., São Paulo, Brazil
Mr. and Mrs E. Ravena, São Paulo, Brazil
Ms. M. Ravena, São Paulo, Brazil
Mr.JP. Correia, São Paulo, Brazil
Ms. C. Campanelli, São Paulo, Brazil
Ms. V. Godoy, Bebedouro, ,Brazil
Ms. R. La Creta, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mr. and Mrs. M. Manile, São Paulo, Brazil,
Mr and Mrs. A. Vergueiro, São Paulo, Brazil
Mr. and Mrs. H. Bule Arruda Sao Paulo, Brazil
TV Art Shows and Video:
2012/4 Featured Artist at TPT-Public Television Broadcast: “MN Original”,
Minneapolis, MN, USA, April 2012
2011 Video: “Pompeii Series: Brides of Herculaneum”, shown at Scuola
Armaturarum Arena, City of Pompeii, Campania, Italy
Commissioned Art Works, Grants and Art Awards:
Silver Medall, 2022, encaustic work, Amazonia Juried Group Show, Casa Odisseia, São Paulo, BR
Honorable Mention Award, Le Circle, Paris, France
1st Prize, 2014, Palm Art Award, Leipzig, Germany
Award of Merit, 2013, Palm Award, Leipzig, Germany
3rd Place Award, 2013 Artists Haven Gallery International Fine Arts Competition, Artist Haven Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
Artist of the Year, 2011, TOSCA magazine, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Award of Excellence, Palm-Art Award 2010, Art Domain Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, 2010
3rd Artslant 2010 Showcase contest – Showcase Winner Award, NC, US, 2010
2009 Featured Artist Contest Winner, Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2009
CAPES The Art Research Council of São Paulo- scholarship (2004-2006)
Commissioned work, Ms. Heather D., MN, USA.
Commissioned work to Mr. and Mrs. Philip and Linda A. ,Middleton, MA, USA, 2009
Commissioned work to Ms. Rosa M. , Sao Paulo, Brazil
Commissioned work to Mr. and Mrs. Mauricio and Marcia M. , Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, 2005
Commissioned work to Cargill Brazil, SP , Brazil, 1997.
Commissioned works to Art Bis Stores, SP, Brazil, (1993 through 1997)
Commissioned works to Cultural Department of Bebedouro City, SP, Brazil, 1995
Press, Interviews and Art Publications:
Safari Magazine n.4, “Silvana Ravena”, front cover and article by Roger Monteiro, Zebra pb, nov
2025, SãoPaulo, BR
Revista Safari 2, “Silvana Ravena: Geometrias do Invisivel”, article by Roger Monteiro, 2025, Zebra
pb, São Paulo, BR
São Paulo 471, “Faces da Floresta”, photography essay, Vera Simões org, 2025, São Paulo, BR
São Paulo 470, “ Noites da Floresta” Photography essay, , Vera Simoes org, 2024, São Pulo, BR
Percurso Magazine 2019, frontcover, Brazilian Psychoanalisis Society pb., São Paulo, BR
Art&Beyond Magazine, summer ed. 2020, Art&Beyond Inc. pb ., Illinois, IL – USA
Art&Beyond Magazine, Fall Ed.2019, back cover, Art&Beyond Inc. pb ., Illinois, IL – USA
Art&Beyond Magazine, Fall Ed.2018, back cover, Art&Beyond Inc. pb ., Illinois, IL - USA
Internationale Kunst Heute 2018, org Martina Koelle, IKH publishing, book,Munchen, Germany,
2016
Interview for Veronique Wantz Gallery’s Lunch Time Reading,online pb, 2017
Art Compass 2016, Ulrich Himmelblau curator, Whois publishers, book, Leipzig, Germany, 2016
Internationale Kunst Heute 2016, Martina Koelle, IKH publishing, Munchen, Germany, 2016
Who is Who in Visual Arts 2014-15, Ulrich Goette Himmelblau, Art Domain Whois, Leipzig,
Germany, 2015
“Bright Works on Display at the Owatonna Art Center in October”, article by Kim Hyatt,
Owatonna People’s Press and Owatonna.com, Owatonna, MN, USA, 2015
Studio Visit Magazine # 23 , book,The Open Studio Press, Boston, MA, 2015
Artblend Vol 1, Michael Joseph, Michael and Elaine Joseph Pbls, book,Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA,
2014
Featured Artists Vol. IV, Cover page, Peter Doughty curator, book, Meadiaplan Pbls, Winchester,
MA,USA and N. Faliro, Athens, Greece, 2014
Important World Artists Vol 1, Thomas & Myrina Tunberg, WWAB, book,Santa Barbara, CA, 2013
Who is Who in Visual Arts, 2012-213, Ulrich Goette Himmelblau, Art Domain Whois, book, Leipzig,
Germany, 2013
International Contemporary Artists Vol. 7, Despina Tumberg, Curator, WWAB Pbls, book, Santa
Barbara, CA, USA, 2013
Local Artists Interviews, Featured Artist interview July 2012 – LAI, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2013
Who is Who in Visual Arts 2011-12, (cover) Art Domain Verlag Pblsh. Lepzig, book,Germany, 2012
International Contemporary Artists, Vol.5, Despina Tunber curator, WWA Pbls, book,Santa
Barbara, CA, USA 2012
International Dictionary of Art, (cover), Despina Tunberg curator, WWAB, book, St, Barbara,
USA2011
“Studio Visit Magazine” # 14– Art Catalogue, art works and artistic profile- The Open Studio
Press, 2011, Boston, MA,, USA
TOSCA Magazine, Featured Artist of the Spring Issue, 2011, TOSCA Art Guide editors, Twin
Cities, USA, 2010
International Contemporary Masters- IV”, WWAB Publishers Santa Barbara, 2010, book,CA, USA
TOSCA Magazine, Winter Issue, 2011, TOSCA Art Guide editors, 2010, Twin Cities, USA
Who is Who in Visual Art, Vol.2010-2011”, Art Domain Verlag, book, 2010, Leipzig, Germany
Dictionary of Art Vol. III”, by Despina Tunberg, WWAB Publisher, 2010, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
International Contemporary Masters – III” WWAB Publishers, book,2010, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Blogged at Chris Madsen’s Everyday Friends 2010, Art blog
Featured artworks in the article : “Meditation on Light and Form” by Mary Abbe, Star Tribune
newspaper, 2010, Twin Cities, MN, USA
Featured artist in the article: ”Friendship and Facebook”, by Rosana Almeida, “Nossa Gente”
newspaper, 2010, Orlando, FL, USA
Solo show “ Memory Moves” featured in news paper “The Messenger”, 08/2009, Minneapolis,
MN, USA
Blogged at Marge Bohlander Art Gallery blog, June 2009
Artist statement published in the book “From Starving to Successful”, by Jason Horejs,2009, USA
Featured artist at “Red Dot, News from Xanadu Gallery”, July 2009, Xanadu Gallery, AZ, USA
Featured artist at Myspace.com, 2009, USA
Featured works in “We Come from Everywhere: Midwest Sanctuary at Esthetics”, by Matt
Conrad, January 2008, at Mnartists online publication, MN, USA
Interviewed artists at Radio Bebedouro, City of Bebedouro, 2005, SP, Brazil
Article about the show” Women chatting on a Piazza”, in the newspaper “ Gazeta de
Bebedouro”, City of Bebedouro, 2005, SP, Brazil
Articles about art:
Author of the article “Art History Brought to Life”, chapter in the book: S. Ciornai (ed), Percursos
em Arte Terapia, vol. II, Ed. Summus, SP, Brazil, 2005 –
Author of the article“In Search of Beauty – Reflections on the Mature Women”, monograph, in the
book: S.Ciornai (ed), Percursos em Arte Terapia, vol. I, Ed. Summus, SP, Brazil, 2004
Author of the essay “Art History Brought to Life”, published in The Art Therapy Magazine of Sedes Sapientiae Institute, n. VII , SP, Brazil, 1999
“Curtocircuito”, visual poem, Leon Ferrari curator, AGRAFICA Magazine, Ed. Entretempo, SP, Brazil, 1987.
Art Research Essays:
2005 Thesis: “Boxed Memories: An Aerial View of Painting”, 2006, master’s degree Santa
Marcelina College , SP, Brazil
1998 Brazilian Art : A Gender Approach ” , monograph on Contemporary Brazilian
women artists - Armando Alvarez Penteado College, SP, Brazil
1997 In Search of Beauty – A Look at the Mature Women , monograph,
Sedes Sapientiae Institute, SP, Brazil.
Art Lectures, Demos and Talks:
2025 Bate Papo: Flavia Coelho, Carmem Pousada e Silvana Ravena, Galeria 556, 2025, SP, BR
2022 Noites da Floresta, art talk, Espaço Caruso/Galeria VerArte, São Paulo, BR
2020 Memory Moves, Live with curator Vera Simões, Galeria VerArte, online from BR
2016 Art Demo and Talk, Veronique Wantz Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2014 My Art and Psychology, Veronique Wantz Gallery, MN, USA
2013 The Pompeii Series, Pompeii City Hall, Pompeii, Italy
2013 Psychology and Art, Chanhassen High School, Chanhassen, MN, USA.
2013 An Archeology of Color, Bloomington Art Center, Bloomington, MN, USA
2011 Nina Bliese Gallery, MN, one person exhibit, Minneapolis, MN
2006 Ut Pictura Poiesis , Santa Marcelina College – SP, Brazil
2000 Workshop: “Post Modern Experience” – 4th National Congress of Art Therapy , GO, Brazil
1998 Beauty and Menopause , 3rd National Congress of Art Therapy, SP, Brazil
1999 Art History Brought to Life, 3National Congress of Art Therapy, SP, Brazil
1993 Painting Fabrics for Personal Growth, 1st Art Therapy Congress, SP, BR
Other Professional Activities:
2012 Juror at the 4th Annual 6th District Art for Highschool Contest,
Keith Ellison Congressman, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2002-2005 Art History teacher at the Art Therapy Department of Sedes
Sapientiae Institute, SP, Brazil
Member of the Review Board for the Art Therapy Magazine of
Sedes Sapientiae Institute, SP, Brazil
1999-2005 Author of the curriculum and teacher of the course “Art History
Brought to Life”, Sedes Sapientiae Institute Sao Paulo,
Nursery Home Villa Garoud , Alphaville, SP, Brazil
1985-1998 Clinical psychotherapy and art therapy for adults and seniors, SP, Brazil
Selected Comments about my work:
“SILVANA LACRETA RAVENA faz pinturas pesquisando as potencialidades da luz. Às vezes, cria estruturas, desenhos, que recortam as formas coloridas que fazem associações com vitrais. As proporções de seus trabalhos, os tamanhos deles, nos fazem recordar aqueles vitrais que iluminam os espaços arquitetônicos. O sagrado aparece como luz que está fora da cena mostrada. É uma luz inalcançável, lá de trás. Por isso mesmo uma sensação de transcendência brota desses trabalhos. É surpreendente como há coerência nas pesquisas que são apresentadas em backlights, nas pinturas e também em obras tridimensionais. » Sergio Firgermann, artist, & mentor
(for the art exhibit “Abstractions”, SF curator, São Paulo, SP, BR)
“Silvana is a joy to work with. Not only does her work generate constant interest from clients, but she is extremely organized, reliable and responsive. Silvana is the consummate professional, a rarity among artists”
Jason Horejs, Owner,Xanadu Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
“Hi Silvana! We were talking about you on Saturday night and bragging to our friends about the quality, purpose, and intention of your art in our home!! Continues to be absolutely SPECTACULAR and we never get tired of admiring it!!”
Fernando Penã and Julie Thompson, art collectors, Minneapolis, USA
“My wife and I had been searching for a painting to anchor our collection displayed in our family living room. As a recent purchaser of the Xanadu Gallery, we are privy to new artist’s works from time to time. One Sunday morning I received an e-mail from Xanadu featuring Silvana LaCreta’s work. Needless to say, it was absolutely spectacular. My wife and I were drawn to it immediately. After a short discussion, we decided to call Silvana and see whether we could commission her to paint us a painting to anchor our collection.This began one of the most rewarding relationships we have experienced. From the first email we sent to all the collaboration we had throughout the process, Silvana listened to our vision and she provided the inspiration and incredible talent to create a wonderful painting that we will enjoy for years to come. I was amazed ar how easy the process worked and I was actually commenting to Silvana how we are going to miss our periodical updates about the painting. It just may be that we have to have her paint us another original painting! If you are thinking of commissioning an artist as talented and dedicated as Silvana to create a work of art that is timeless and this, I would say that it is a very rewarding and satisfying experience, one that I would do again in a heat beat.”
Phillip A. Art collector, Middleton, MA, USA
( published in “Red Dot”, Xanadu Gallery, newsletter, July 2009)
“It was an honor to show your encaustics at Bohlander Arts Gallery. I am quite impressed with the uniqueness of your work, its maturity and rich expressiveness. The show looks great.I was also impressed to see the publicity that you personally generate for your artwork. Not only does this promotion keep your work in the minds of your followers, but it also helps to inform people that might not know about a gallery show or other event that you are part in.
Anyone who works with you will appreciate your professionalism. You are very easy to work with.
I wish you great success with your artistic career and I hope that we can work together in the future. “Marjorie J. Bohlander, Owner ofBohlander Arts Gallery, MN, USA
(Handwritten letter, after a solo show at the gallery, October, 2009)
“If I could live inside a piece of art, it would be Silvana Ravena’s “Red Sight”. I want to wander along its lines, be warmed by the vivid reds and warm browns, and chase hints of a bursting blue around each corner. This is the kind of piece that begs to be explored with fingertips, and at 72″ x 42″, there is a lot of space to explore. Go ahead, be the talk of the town with your gloriously enviable new art .”
Jessica Bradley, Art Director, Artwork Network Gallery
Denver, CO, USA, (published in the gallery’s newsletter and blog, July, 2011)
“The waxen encaustic surfaces of Silvana Ravena’s paintings dance with a myriad of warm tones. The Brazilian-born artist’s work seems abstract but bear its origins in the landscape or figure studies. “ The Ball”, for instance, is a Kandinsky-like study of figures on a ball court, whereas the fish in two paintings almost disappear in a welter of color. Her “Rocky Mountains” landscape is an explosion of tropical colors hinting the scene that inspired them.” Mary Abbe, Art critic
Star Tribune, (published in “Meditations on Light & Form”, Star Tribune, Minneapolis, July 2010)
“Silvana, thank you for sharing your incredible art with our readers”“Silvana LaCreta Ravena grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a city known as a prominent cultural and intellectual center. It is not surprising then that this remarkable woman earned degrees in psychology, art therapy and art history, and most recently a master’s degree in fine arts. She has worked as a production designer in film, as a professional artist and was also a practicing psychotherapist in Brazil. Ms. Ravena has numerous art shows and exhibits throughout the United States. You can view more of her incredible work at silvanaravena.com” Gail Weber, Editor of Twin Cities TOSCA Magazine,
( “Featured Artist Silvana LaCreta Ravena”, in TOSCA, Spring Issue, 2011)
“You deserve all the good wishes and presentations that you are experiencing. Your pieces are wonderful. As I am typing this I am facing your piece in our lobby. So glad you are a part of the ICM Shows.”
Lynn Jones, art consultant, Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts, Las Vegas, NE, USA,
(During the show “International Contemporary Artists IV”,
“Thanks Silvana! That show was a very gratifying experience for me. I always like showing your beautiful work!” Robert Bowman, Exhibit Director, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA
(for the “Minnetonka Center for The Arts 2010 Bienial” art exhibit)
“Silvana, as you know I love your art a lot, so it was a pleasure for me to get to know a little more about the backgrounds of your artistic life. Congratulations! Keep in touch!”
Ulrich Goette Himmelblau, Art Critic and publisher of Art Compass Art books collection.
(Art Compass pb, Leipizig, Germany)
