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Diana Grappasonno is an artist, illustrator and aspiring web designer. In 2005, she left the security of a perfectly respectable position working as a forensic scientist in a county crime laboratory to pursue her creative passions and to start Bobo Junket, a web-based fine art business and product line. During the past several years, she has amassed a large body of original art and design work. She has also developed valuable skills managing web analytics, SEO, web marketing, affiliate programs and web ad campaigns for her various sites.
Her paintings of animals and people are colorful and expressionistic and might be described as 'urban folk' or 'outsider' art. Her interest in photography has also grown and while her photographic pursuits were at one time centered around the capture of latent print and blood spatter images, her current endeavor allows for more ethereal and agreeable subject matter- primarily flowers.
Bobo Junket is still alive and kicking in the form of several web-based stores. If you follow the links on the "buy stuff" page, you'll find original paintings, giclee prints, photographic prints, T-shirts, magnets, tote bags and more.
Although her artistic aspirations did not land her quite where she'd hoped, Diana learned a great deal and discovered a new-found passion for the presentation of web-based media. She is currently taking a respite from painting to focus her career aspirations on web design, web content development and flash animation.
Diana is presently taking courses and is actively building her portfolio of web design projects. She is currently available for freelance web design projects until which point she is once again gainfully employed in the security of a perfectly respectable position.
* Four Walls Gallery, group show, Portland, Maine. April 2008. (5-6 pieces)
* Create:Fixate Gallery, "Transformation" group show, Los Angeles. March 2008 (6 pieces)
* Leurzer’s Archive: 200 Best Illustrators (book/periodical): Fall, 2007.
* LA Center for Digital Art, LA, CA. "Snap to Grid!" group show, Sept 2007. (one piece)
* Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR. “Secrets” group show, Sept 2007. (one piece)
* prettydarnswell.com “Women I’ve Known” online show and benefit, Aug-Sept 2007.(one piece)
* The Goodfoot Lounge, Portland, OR. Four person show. July 2007. (approx. 20 pieces)
* Electronic Cottage Gallery- chosen as “Artist of the Month”, 2007.
* WORKS/San Jose Annual Members Exhibit, 2006. (one piece)
* Member, EBSQ (online art association), 2005-2008.
* L’Arte della Strada (sidewalk chalk painting festival), 1997, San Francisco.
* San Mateo County Fair, 1995. (It counts!)
dianagrappasonno (at) comcast (dot) net
503-747-3518 (9 am-5 pm Pacific Standard Time only please.)