The SUNY Empire
community has a rich and varied artist community. Join us each week to meet our
faculty, staff, student, and alumni artists to learn a little about their
creative expressions, their process, and them. Our artists hold a Q&A
session following their presentations/performances. Creative Expressions happen
every Thursday at 5pm in Zoom at this link (https://bit.ly/CreativeExpressionSeries ). Find out more
on our website (https://bit.ly/CreativeExpressionsWebsite) including all
our previous sessions and plans for future sessions.
Weekly Host: Lisa
D’Adamo-Weinstein
Full Bios
Jacqueline
Maldonado
is a surface pattern designer and watercolorist.
As a New York native, currently residing in Long
Island, she spent most of her adult career in various facets of the fashion
industry, all the while nurturing her artistic talent through higher education
in visual art and developing a discipline in her artistic practice. In 2012,
Jacqueline took a leap of faith to pursue her art as a full-time endeavor. She
works in a variety of media and explores many styles and modes of artistic
expression but is best known for her work in watercolor.
Her abstracts in watercolor can be understood as
emotional landscapes expressed as color and movement, communicating the essence
of an experience, music, a memory, loss, joy, uncertainty, defeat, triumph,
love and longing. She is drawn to pattern, finding inspiration in the
repetition of forms and forces of nature and the world around her.
Her work is featured as home decor products on sites
like Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters, Bloomingdales, Target, Kohl’s, Bed Bath
& Beyond, Macy’s, Amazon, Joss & Main, One King's Lane, Gilt, Wayfair
and many others. She is proud to have partnered with brands such as Popsockets,
contributing to a charity campaign for Days For Girls, Int’l.
You can find some of her work featured in book publications
by Bowie Style (Print and Pattern: Nature) and Joanna Goss (The Watercolor
Ideas Book).
Additionally, her work has appeared on television on
HGTV's Flipping The Block, as well as several features in HGTV magazine,
InStyle magazine, Good Housekeeping magazine and many popular
art, decor and lifestyle bogs.
“I aim to create imaginative work. Work that is
poetic. Work that is soulful and luminous with color.” – Jacqueline
Paul Lomax is a freelance
photojournalist.
Paul Lomax
spent over twenty years covering international news assignments. His career
took him to North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, the United
Kingdom, and the Caribbean.
Throughout his career he documented society, sport,
fashion, politics, courts of law, natural disasters, and conflict. When he
wasn’t covering major news stories Paul enjoyed walking the streets of the
world with one camera and one lens; photographing life as it passed it front of
him.
Since retiring in 2016 Paul has studied substance
abuse and mental health counseling, and as a consequence is developing
“Recovery through Photography” a CBT
(Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) evidence-based program employing both
photography, and philosophy focused on bringing long-term recovery to people
suffering from addiction.
In January of 2020 Paul took on what he considers to
be his toughest assignment thus far - becoming a full-time student at Empire
State College reading for a degree in Cultural Studies with a concentration in
Philosophy.
His other interests include: Reading, writing, music,
film, sports, gaming, and watching the world walk by from the armchairs of
bistros and cafés.
