About mimi

mimi…

…her name inspired through Puccini's opera LaBoheme, she came to Chicago from Michigan shortly after receiving her degree. She moved to Chicago to work in the film industry and to pursue a career in art.

Mimi worked for major TV stations in Chicago before entering the package design industry during which time she continued to study painting in the U.S. and in Europe.

She has designed major international packaging and global identity programs for corporate giants such as Kraft and Quaker Oats and has taught fine art design at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Mimi studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Beaux-arts in Paris and the Royal Academy in London.

Mimi began her career with soft pastel and oil pastel, one of the oldest mediums used by Western artists and Eastern artists. She then explored and worked with other mediums including oil paint and acrylic.

Direct experience and the pastel paintings of Degas led her to realize that pastel had for her what no other medium could: direct contact, immediacy, and most importantly spiritual purity. According to Mimi, "the spiritual purity, which Degas also spoke of, can capture and express with such clarity and color the internal light of the soul. And, it is through that light that painting takes on a new perspective and partnership in its relationship to all other sources of light."

Mimi paints exclusively on location, outdoors, from natural sunlight, natural sounds and natural energies. She paints in Chicago and other international cities. The pastel paintings are her attempt to capture the historical, spiritual, and symbolic essence of sites and landmarks that affect our everyday lives and the lives of our communities

After 911...mimi painted several collections of oil paintings depicting the glory and majesty of the sunrise and sunset. These collections were later enhanced with collections of twilight sail boat paintings also done in oil. The objective of these paintings was to create an atmosphere of "tranquility" through illuminating the future.

The past 14 years have been a true success for the art of mimi and she has now decided to take one year to write and publish.

Patrons of mimi art give testament to her light, love and abundance immortalized in her images:

I truly believe mimi is an artistic visionary. Her 3 large paintings have illuminated our home.
Susan Limpa, owner of three large paintings

MY "MIMI" PAINTING IS THE GREATEST GIFT I HAVE EVER RECEIVED.
TERESA E., CHICAGO

"I PRAY TO PASS ON A "MIMI" PAINTING TO EACH OF MY CHILDREN.
THOMAS, V.P. BANK OF AMERICA, CHICAGO

WHEN I BOUGHT MY FIRST MIMI PAINTING I FELT HAPPINESS INSIDE AND MY HOME FEELS SO MUCH HAPPIER WHENEVER I GAZE AT THE BEAUTIFUL ART WE HAVE BROUGHT TO OUR HOME FROM MIMI, I AM A MORE PEACEFUL PERSON.
JULIE KOSOWSKI, Political activist, CHICAGO

I have been looking for paintings for 5 years and when I saw the "mimi" paintings I knew at once I had arrived. I now own 9 paintings and my living space is illuminated with light and love.