{"id":14,"date":"2021-11-21T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T15:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terrivargas.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2022-06-26T07:45:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:45:55","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/terrivargas.com\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"14\" class=\"elementor elementor-14\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c8ddeb6 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"c8ddeb6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a5337e\" data-id=\"6a5337e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-feefb6c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"feefb6c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.6.6 - 08-06-2022 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">My Life & Art<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-034f786 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"034f786\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ba0c118\" data-id=\"ba0c118\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3dc998b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3dc998b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">My approach to art comes from two entirely different places \u2013 one place is my mind which simply wants to depict something pretty or interesting \u2013 the other is raw emotion which needs to get onto a canvas so that my mind can then take over and push it around, shape it, build upon it or throw it away.  I am not particular about the medium used, as long as it is fluid enough to allow me to have my way with it. The important thing is my relationship to the canvas, the excitement I feel as I watch the images being born from my hand and the satisfaction that comes after of figuring out what the heck I was feeling.\nI was born and raised in New York City in a fifth floor walk-up railroad flat in Chelsea - before it was Chelsea.  Then it was a true New York neighborhood of immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Puerto Rico and more.  As a school girl, I was brimming over with a creative urge that neither I nor my old school Puerto Rican parents nor the nuns at my Catholic school could contain.  While I had absolutely no training in any of the arts, I managed to land parts in school plays, taught myself to sing and learned dance moves by sneaking into rehearsal venues and watching the likes of Donald O\u2019Connor practice.\nWhile my main source of income has always been from accounting jobs, the arts were where my heart lay.   In my early adult years I dabbled in everything from pottery, leather working, and jewelry making; and took art courses at the New School in New York City.\nFor eight years my partner and I created and sold wearable hand-painted silk accessories at the Brooklyn Artisans Gallery, an artist owned and run business in Cobble Hill,  Brooklyn where we lived.\nAlthough I got great satisfaction from the Visual Arts, I was still drawn to the performing arts so I took classes at the HB Studio in New York where I studied with Uta Hagen, Sandy Dennis and Michael Becket.  Through the years several acting gigs presented themselves to me, including parts in a  couple of off-broadway productions,  roles in the TV series, NYPD Blue and Law and Order, 100 Center Street and most recently a supporting role in the film shot  in Newburgh titled \u201cMi America.\u201d\nSince retiring from my \u201creal job\u201d I am spending more time on my artwork and enjoying life in the Hudson Valley surrounded by an incredible group of \u201ccreatives\u201d who keep me inspired.\n<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Life &#038; Art My approach to art comes from two entirely different places \u2013 one place is my mind which simply wants to depict something pretty or interesting \u2013 the other is raw emotion which needs to get onto a canvas so that my mind can then take over and push it around, shape &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/terrivargas.com\/?page_id=14\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrivargas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrivargas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrivargas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrivargas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrivargas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terrivargas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/terrivargas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrivargas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}