Lou Borghetti is a Brazilian artist based in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She studied under several notable Brazilian artists and teaches painting classes and workshops out of her own atelier. Borghetti works in acrylics, monotypes, prints, and photography. She has exhibited widely in Brazil and the United States.

1. Lou Borghetti

2. Lou Borghetti is an brazilian artist who lives, works and
teaches in her own atelier in Porto Alegre, south of Brazil .
“Lou Borghetti’s art, like all real art, keeps
surprises and unexpected resources in the
underground of the unconscious, hers and
ours...”
Lya Luft (Writer)

3. Studied under Danúbio Gonçalves, Fernando Baril, Renina Katz, Katie Van
Sherpenberg and Plínio Bernhardt. Attended the Atelier Livre da Prefeitura
Municipal from 1973 to 1980, studying intaglio with Anestor Tavares, sculpture with
Claudio Martins Costa, drawing and lithography with Danúbio Gonçalves, and Art
Theory and watercolor with Fayga Ostrower. Worked as assistant and student at
Iberê Camargo’s studio and Marco Túlio Resende’s workshop in Belo Horizonte.
Attended watercolor workshops at the Universidade de Belas Artes of Seville and
Florence.
Recent exhibitions
2010 Galeria Tina Zappoli, Porto Alegre. RS (With Fire and Flowers)
2008 Picasso Galery, Washington, DC. (Possible Landscape)
2007 BACI - Brazilian-American Cultural Institute, Washington, DC.
2006 Ado Malagoli Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art, Porto Alegre
2006 Avenida Cultural Clebio Sória, Porto Alegre Municipal Chamber

4. Acrilic:

5. Monotypes and prints :

6. Photographs:

7. Her Atelier is in Porto Alegre, where she
teaches painting classes and presents its
workshops.

8.  Drawing and Painting (aug./2011)
 Drawing and Watercolor (oct./2011)
 Children's Art (nov./2011)

9. • Sketchbook as an ally in the creative process
• Acrylic on canvas - From Sketch to canvas
• Line, Drawing, Color and Composition
• Different techniques, collages, gold leaf,
plaster, etc. (Optional)

10. • Email: lou@borghetti.com.br
• Blog: http://louborghetti.blogspot.com
• Site: www.borghetti.com.br
• Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/louborghet
http://www.facebook.com/lou.borghetti