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While earning her BFA in painting at USC, Sylvia won the
prestigious Freshman Art Award and the Art Department's Painting
Award of the Year in her Sophomore Year. From college,
Sylvia went on to a distinguished career as an Art Director for
three of the top advertising agencies in South Carolina,
including Leslie Advertising and Newman, Saylor and Gregory
which is currently known as Chernoff Newman. Having won
numerous local and regional Addy Awards, she went on to win Best
of Show in the mid-eighties for her poster advertising the
Southeastern Wildlife Expo.
In 1989, Sylvia returned to USC to pursue a
BFA in graphic design and jump-started a free-lance business
that left her little time to express her fine arts talent.
Always prolific in whatever medium was at hand, Sylvia now
claims clay as her cherished partner.
Artist Statement
"I describe much of my work as a neotribal
synthesis of ancient motifs and body adornment. However,
many pieces are simply clay confections which delight in the
female form, celebrating its corporeal manifestation, all of
it's curves and undulations. We should love the body we
are in as there is Devine beauty in each of us.
My work screams out for the viewer to find that beauty in him or
herself."
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