"Elegant Cat"

ABOUT BRITT ZAIST

A native New Yorker (1946), Britt Zaist received her training at Russell Sage College and at the famous Art Students League of New York. She is also widely known for her large, sumptuous abstractions in colored permanent inks. These paintings are in the collections of IBM, Konica Mfg., Burroughs Wellcome, The Knoxville-Tennessee Airport and other national and international corporations.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

USA:
A. Montague Collection; Artspace; City Art Works; Durham Art Guild; Fine Line Gallery;
Goldsboro Arts Council; Horizon Gallery; NC Nature Artists; NC State Fair;
NC Watercolor Society; Raleigh Fine Arts Society; Raleigh Little Theater;
Rocky Mountain Arts Center; Sertoma Arts Center; Thalassa Blue Gallery;
Wilson Artists Association; Wake Visual Arts Association

Mexico:
(Mexico City) Aura Galerias; (San Miguel de Allende) Galeria de la O, Galeria Izamal;
(Monterey) Galeria los Toldos; (Leon) Museo de la Ciudad de Léon

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS:

USA:
North Carolina: Artspace (Raleigh); Wake Visual Arts Association (Raleigh);
Arizona: Adelante (Scottsdale)

Mexico:
Aura Galerias (Mexico City); Izamal Galeria (San Miguel de Allende)

COLLECTIONS:

USA:
North Carolina: ARC/Wake; Associated Brokers; Branch Banking and Trust Co.;
Burroughs Wellcome, Inc.; Freudenberg Spunweb Co.; Glaxo, Inc.;
Guild Master Graphics, Inc.; Haijai, Inc.; Henley Paper Co.;
Howard, From, Stallings & Hutson, P.A.; I.B.M.; Jerry Turner & Associates;
Konica Mfg., USA, Inc.; News & Observer Publishing Co.; NCNB; Sarried Ltd.;
Tennessee: Knoxville Tennessee Airport

Mexico:
Museo de la Ciudad de Léon

MEMBERSHIPS:

Artspace, Artist; Art Students League of New York, Life Member;
American Watercolor Society, Associate; Wake Visual Arts Association, Artist.

STUDIED WITH:

Mario Cooper, AWS, NA; Dale Meyers, AWS, NA; Maxine Masterfield, AWS;
Gustav Rehberger; Francis Cunningham; Alex Powers; Glen R. Bradshaw;
Joe Cox; Carrie Brown; Ruth Ogle

EDUCATION:

1964-66: Russel Sage College, NY (Fine Arts major, Business Science minor)
1982-84: Art Students League of New Yor