Veronica Napoles, a Cuban-american, has been an artist all of her life.  As a youngster, she drove her parents crazy by repeatedly submitting her drawings to “Can you draw this pirate?” only to have a saleperson appear at the door soon thereafter.  She received her BFA from the University of Miami and her Masters in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley.

Veronica turned her interest in art into a successful career as a graphic designer.  She went on to teach design at Berkeley, wrote a book on branding, Corporate Identity Design, and created some of the more important corporate idenitity programs of the 1980's and 1990's.

Throughout her graphic design career, Veronica was always looking back to her early painting days, wanting to eventually resume fulltime painting.

Referencing distinct art historical periods and styles, her images can be at once tranquil and yet troubled.  Her work has been described as “perverse classical painting done by a Cuban Frida Kahlo.”

Additional:
Board of Trustees Headlands Center for the Arts, Current
Board of Directors Youth in Arts, San Rafael, 1999 through 2004
KRON – Hispanic Leader of the Year
Sundance Film Festival Screenplay Semi-Finalist 1993

Veronica on Wikipedia