Lola Scapitta

BIOGRAPHY

Lola Scarpitta is a third generation artist. Both her grandfather and
her father, have been firmly entrenched in the global art world for
almost a century. Her grandfather, Salvatore Cartaino Scarpitta was an
acclaimed Los Angeles sculptor whose most important works include the
bas-reliefs for the facades of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange and the
Los Angeles County General Hospital. He is also known for the life-size
sculpture of Marlene Dietrich, who posed nude in his Hollywood studio.
That sculpture appeared in the Paramount/Dietrich classic film 'The
Song of Songs' in the 1930's.

Scarpitta's father is Salvatore Scarpitta, famed New York artist who
was represented since 1958 by the world's foremost modern art dealer
Leo Castelli, alongside Pop stars-in-the-making Robert Rauschenberg,
Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol.

Born in Rome, Italy but raised in Greenwich Village, Lola grew up in
the backdrop of the New York City art scene of the 1960's and 1970's.
Her parent's studios were her classrooms and the galleries of New York
City were her playgrounds. It was in this environment that Scarpitta
formed her ideas about painting. The pop art that was around her
influenced greatly the sense of irony and storytelling in her work.
Scarpitta's love of art history is also seen in her work in the many
paintings that are a sort of visual play on the great paintings of the
Renaissance,19th and 20th century art movements. "The art anarchy that
was around me in childhood nourished the go against the grain mentality
in me. I never feel the need to go with flow and with the movements of
the present. And that gives me a greater liberty, which is the greatest
gift from my unique upbringing".

Scarpitta has exhibited in the UCLA Gallery, Art In Action Gallery, the
Self Help Graphics Gallery, Cactus Gallery, Workmen's Circle Gallery,
Phantom Gallery, Echo Gallery, Pico House Gallery and has been a
featured artist at NoHo Gallery L.A., 2ND City Council Gallery as well
as the Museum of Latin American Art in Miami. Her work has also been
featured on Art Revolutionaries.com, Downtown L.A Life Magazine, The
Studio City Sun and The Long Beach Press Telegram. Scarpitta majored in
both fine art and art history and studied under noted painter, Lois
Dodd at Brooklyn College, CUNY.