THE ARTWORK

McKenzie Is a professional artist whose works span 20 years. She is an Award-winning painter and mixed-media artist known Internationally, as well as, an emerging artist of unique vision and accomplishment. Her work can be viewed in Art Shows, Commissions, and for auction on eBay. McKenzie has received many awards throughout the World. She is the first place winner of the Citicorp National Artist Award, and the recipient of the Millennial Artists award, as well as, many others.

A complete list of awards and credentials are available upon request.

Business associations: McKenzie's artworks are represented in corporate and private collections across the USA and Internationally. She has exhibited in local galleries, regional alternative spaces and national venues. Her work has been shown in New York City, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Sacramento, North Carolina, Washington, DC, Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania. Her work is featured by a New Zealand company on packaging and software. Right Hemisphere She is also working with Fox Television on a new project to be completed in September. Adobe has featured her paintings in their German edition coupled by an extensive article chronicling her career. She has authored many articles in art magazines and her work has been featured in many monthly periodicals.

THE ARTIST

McKenzie was born in Los Angeles, California. She attended UCLA on a full scholastic and Fine Art scholarship. There she gained a visual vocabulary of form and color in nature. She credits her professors for influencing her strong use of color and her energetic approach to compositional dynamism.
McKenzie continues to build on her knowledge of color theory. Her vibrant hues in her latest paintings create an optical vibration in the eye. The added surface textures enrich her boldly painted canvases. McKenzie's study in luminosity and iridescence is visible in these highly evocative compositions.
Her themes are diverse. She searches landscape, cityscape and abstract design for structure and movement in her compositions. She has developed a lively approach to painting in the form of brightly hued and textured paintings. She derives inspiration by observing shapes, contrasts of color temperatures, the play of light against dark on shapes, and the endless variety of nature's elemental forces. McKenzie uses a palette rich with saturated colors that gives her abstract paintings an air of excitement, depth, and mystery.

ARTIST STATEMENT
"I draw my inspiration from the changing patterns and environments in which I surround myself. Using nature and pure emotion as points of departure, I create forms and shapes- colors and hues- to convey energy and movement. The strokes, layers, colors and rhythms become the theme. I strive for new ways to represent my physical and spiritual sensations in paint. Vibrant and intense color is integral to my compositions.  The images are put together in a harmonious sequence to reconstruct the reality of a spectacular world. Energy is the underlying theme of my work."
"I strive to paint with honesty those things which move me."

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