Carmen D'Avino

His works in oils and sculpture have achieved similar success, part of his always expanding experimentation into shape, color and form.

Beginning in the late 1930s with his studies at the Art Students League in New York City, and influenced by his teachers Robert Brackman and Andre l'Hote, D'Avino gravitated toward films and painting.

D'Avino had hoped to continue his art studies in India under the GI Bill, but was unable to find a suitable school.

In the spring of 1950, the sculptor Robert Rosenwald left his small studio at number 8, rue St. Julian le Pauvre, located directly across the street from one of the oldest churches in Paris, and diagonally across the Seine from the towers of Notre Dame, and turned it over to his friend Haywood "Bill" Rivers.

The opening of the gallery created considerable excitement and was reported both in the English language press as well as in a number of French papers.

In its slightly more than two years of existence more than 50 painters and sculptors exhibited at Galerie Huit, including Carmen D'Avino, Shinkichi Tajiri, Harold Tovish, Oscar Chelimsky, Sydney Geist, Al Held, Burt Hasan, George Earl Ortman, Raymond Hendler, Robert Rosenwald.

D'Avino continued his art studies by enrolling at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, and in 1951 returned to North America, and eventually to New York City.

No matter the medium, D'Avino transports viewers of his art to a whimsical, non-threatening, yet distracting place where eyes and minds are never at rest.

With the grain of wood or his palette of vivid colors, D'Avino can engulf people in a tapestry of intricate designs, rich with detail and texture, which grow with organic vitality.

In order to sculpt, he first needs to get the wood ... chop the tree, cut the log, carve, file, sand ... and through the sweat of toil he converts his energy into the sculpture.

[12] Helena D’Avino Carmen My Destiny, 1998 Scott MacDonald Cinema 16: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society Temple University Press, 2002 Conversations with the Artist, 1997–2004 Karen Nadder Lago