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MaiYap
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Biography Mai Yap is a Chinese Panamanian artist born in the countryside village of Aguadulce, Panama in 1959. In 1968, she subsequently moved with her family to Panama City. While studying at Colegio de Nuestra Señora de Bethlem and Instituto PanAmericano, as well as at the University of Georgia in Athens, USA, her commercial illustrations were in great demand. In 1982, after obtaining a Bachelor in Arts Degree in Advertising and Graphic Design, she returned to Panama. While in her native country, she worked as a junior copywriter at McCann-Erickson and Boyd- Barcenas advertising agencies. Her stay would last only three years before she got married to an US Air Force pilot, relocating to Miami, Florida, USA, in 1985. After several years of working as a fashion designer with a thriving clothing business and later as a bakery owner, Yap plunged forward to answer her true calling. In 1992, following the birth of her only child, she dedicated her efforts to teach herself how to paint. From the beginning her unusual close-up flowers helped her to establish herself as one of the best floral painters in South Florida, which landed her a position as an art teacher at prestigious Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens in 2007. She is now considered a master colorist and an expert on both the brush and the palette knife techniques. Using only palette knives, she is the first to depict South Florida’s landscape using a thick impressionistic pointillism style. Turning to abstraction in 2011, Yap gave voice to her deepest passions and concerns. These latest environmental abstracts question our beliefs and propel us to take action to preserve our planet. As an international artist, numerous collectors and art lovers around the world cherish Mai Yap bold flowers, landscapes and abstracts. Exhibitions Selected Solo Exhibitions 2016: “Impressions of South Florida”, Consulado General de Panamá, Miami, Florida, USA 2016: “Convergence”, MiArt Space Galllery, Wynwood, Florida, USA 2015: “Equilibrium”, MiArt Space Gallery, Wynwood, Florida, USA 2015: “Petals & Pistils”, Consulado General de Panamá, Miami, Florida, USA 2015: “Eternal Flowers”, West Oak Library, Orlando, Florida, USA 2015: “Confetti”, White’s Art Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA 2015: “Earthenscapes”, 360 Space, Wynwood, Miami, Florida, USA 2014: “Painted Tapestries”, Biscayne Nature Center, Key Biscayne, Florida, USA 2013: “Everglades: Painted Tapestries”, ArtSight Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, USA 2010: “Flowering Impressions”, First National Bank of South Miami, Kendall, Florida, USA 2010: “The Secret Language of Flowers”, Regions Bank Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, USA 2009: “Flowers of Joy”, Century Bank, Venice, Florida, USA 2009: “Love Bouquet”, Biscayne Nature Center, Key Biscayne, Florida, USA 2009: “Petals and Pistils”, Datran Center Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA 2008: “Petals and Pistils”, Rex Art Framing Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA 2008: “Petals and Pistils”, Hillary’s Framing Gallery, South Miami, Florida, USA 2007: “The Music of Flowers”, Wirtz Gallery, First National Bank of South Miami, Florida, USA2006 2007: “Flowers of Hope”, Prudential Realty, Miami, Florida, USA Selected Collective Exhibitions 2016 Panamanian Embassy in Rabat, Morocco / 5th Bronx Latin American Art Biennial, Bronx, New York, USA / Latin American Art Pavillion, Art Medellin International Show, Medellin, Colombia / “2016 Beijing Art Exhibit”, Lanrum International Art Gallery, Beijing, China / “ArtPop!#Bodhi”, Pompano Citi Centre, Pompano, Florida, USA / Featured Artist - XII Gathering of Intl. Women Writers, FLA Intl. University, Miami, Florida, USA / “Florida Mangroves: The Silent Sentinels”, Sunrise Civic Center, Sunrise, Florida, USA / “All Florida Exhibition 2016”, The Box Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA / “Catalyst”, Artserve, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA / “5th Annual Paint Me Miami”, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, Florida, USA / Art Center Miami, Booth G10, Seoul Open International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea / “Art & Environment”, Art&Design Gallery, North Miami, Florida, USA “Asia in America”, MiArt Gallery, Wynwood, Florida, USA / Featured Artist - 32nd Annual Riviera Country Club Art Show, Coral Gables, Florida, USA 2015 Latin American Art Pavillion, Booth E110, Red Dot Miami International Art Show, Miami, Florida, USA / “Asi Pinta Panama”, Miami Dade College North Campus, Miami, Florida, USA / “Take a Seat”, Rosenbaum Fine Art, Boca Raton, Florida, USA / “Niña/Pinta/Santa Maria”, Miramar Cultural Center, Miramar, Florida USA / “A Sense of Place”, Coconut Art Festival Gallery, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA / “Florida Mangroves: The Silent Sentinels”, Biscayne National Park, Dante Fascell Gallery, Homestead, Florida, USA / Biennal Friouato 2015, Taza, Morocco / “Red Eye”, ArtServe Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA / “New Expressions of Latin America”, Ana G. Mendez University, Miramar, Florida, USA / Simons Gallery, AMAZON Fine Art.com Online Gallery / “International Exposure”, Nina Torres Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA / Earth Day Houston, Piag Museum, Houston, Texas, USA / Earth Day Sugar Land City Hall, Sugar Land, Texas, USA / Earth Day Oyster Creek Park, Sugar Land, Texas, USA “Abracadabra”, Art and Cultural Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida, USA / “Colors & Shapes Inspirations”, White’s Art Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA 2014 Artsight Gallery, Booth 702, Spectrum Miami International Art Show, Midtown, Miami, Florida, USA / ARTSpecifier.com Online Gallery / “Oblique Perspectives”, Curator’s Art Project Gallery, Wynwood, Florida, USA / “Abstract Anthropomorhpic”, Curator’s Art Project Gallery, Wynwood, Florida, USA / International Biennale Artists Miami, Nina Torres Art Gallery, Florida, USA / “Everglades”, Frameworks Gallery, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA / “Nature Artisans”, Wirtz Gallery First National Bank of South Miami, Florida, USA / “Palette Knife Artists”, Sunstate Bank, Coral Gables, Florida, USA / “Confetti”, Alper JCC Miami Art Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA / “Petals”, Art Center Wynwood, Miami, Florida, USA / Riviera Country Club Art Show, Miami, Florida, USA 2013 “Genesis”, US Century Bank, Miami, Florida, USA / “Alegria”, South Dade YMCA Center, Miami, Florida, USA 2012 “Flowering Reflections”, Datran Center Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA 2010 Riviera Country Club Art show, Coral Gables, Florida, USA 2009 Collector’s Gallery and Framery, Venice, Florida, USA / Riviera Country Club Art Show, Coral Gables, Florida, USA / Unilatina University, Miramar, Florida, USA 2007 In the Park with Art - Art Festival, Palmetto Bay, Florida, USA 2006 “Art Box”, First National Bank of South Miami, Florida, USA 2005 Creative Learning Therapy Annual Art Auction, Miami, Florida, USA / Dade Art Educators Association Annual Show, Miami, Florida, USA PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens, Miami, Florida: 2007 to present The Art of Painting Flowers 2011 to present The Art of Painting with Palette Knives 2009 to 2014 Workshops on Thinking of Renoir, Inspired by Van Gogh, In Love with Monet, Georgia on my Mind and Picasso, the making of a Modern Legend ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2016 City of Miami Artist Recognition by Mayor Thomas Regalado 2015 Juror for the 2016 Coconut Art Festival / Featured artist at the 32th Annual Riviera Country Club Art Show / Organizer and curator of “Asi Pinta Panama”, the first show featuring Panamanian artists in Miami, FL 2013 Founder of Palette Knife Artists of Miami, the first art group of its kind in South Florida SELECTED REFERENCES AND EXTERNAL LINKS Annual Calendar, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens 2009 to present By Carolyn Graham Edlund, “Featured Artist MaiYap”, https://www.artsyshark.com/2016/07/11/featured-artist-maiyap/, July, 2016 By Jeniree Blanco, “Confetti, a mix of colors and nature”, La Estrella de Panama online newspaper, http://laestrella.com.pa/estilo/cultura/confetti-mezcla-colores-naturaleza/23871848/foto/138008, July 9, 2015 By Jeniree Blanco, “MaiYap exhibits at White’s Art Gallery”, City of Doral newspaper, May 2015, page 36, Doral, Florida, USA By Alina Diaz, “Palette knife painting feels like flying free”, Neighbors, Miami Herald newspaper, April 27th, 2014, Page 3SE, Miami FL, USA By John Edward Smith, “Nature’s Artisans of Miami”, SOMI magazine, April/May 2014, Page 32, Miami, FL, USA By Ana B. Ramos, “Capital del Sol”, El Nuevo Herald newspaper, Sunday, April 27, 2014, page 3E, Miami, FL, USA By Sergio Alsina, “Palette knife artists of Miami celebrate their 1st show”, El Nuevo Herald, Sunday February 6, 2013, page 10E, Miami, FL, USA By George Leposky, “Everglades: Painted Tapetries”, www.examiner.com, March 3, 2013 By Beatriz A. Mendoza, “El Encanto de Pintar con Palette en Miami”, Diario Las Americas newspaper, 2013, #287, page 1B, Miami, FL, USA By Rocio Blanco Garcia, “Bouquet blooms at art exhibit”, Neighbors, Miami Herald newspaper, May 10th, 2009, Page 6, Miami, FL, USA By Patricia Mazzei, “Artwork reflected village’s growth”, Neighbors, Miami Herald newspaper, February 10th, 2008, page 6, Miami, FL, USA By Gary Alan Ruse, “Local artist’s commemorative work commissioned by village”, Palmetto Bay Community Newspaper, Feb. 26-Mar 3, 2008 cover, Miami, FL, USA By Jessica Kirchner, “Art is adding beauty to public places”, Neighbors, Miami Herald, July 27th, 2008, page 3, Miami, FL, USA Categories -American Artists -Panamanian List of Panamanians - Artists -List of Panamanian Americans -List of Latin American Artists -American Artists -Living people -Panamanian Painters -Women Painters -1959 births 
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