Biography

Nadine Baurin is a Contemporary Argentine-American artist who was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although she was exposed to painting and sculpture from an early age, it was during a three-month visit to Paris, France, at age 17 that she acquired a deeper appreciation for fine art; in particular, after soaking up the work of the post-impressionists at the Musée d'Orsay, whose expressive style moved her greatly.

After finishing high school, she relocated to the U.S. to study theatre and visual arts, subsequently earning her B.A. in Studio Art at Principia College, with a focus on painting and drawing. After graduation in 1996, she moved to California, going off on a tangent and getting a job as marketing assistant for a software company. She soon moved to a graphic and web design position which provided a more creative outlet, and then she went back to school to earn a MS in Instructional Technology which resulted in a promotion to Senior Interface Designer.

Due to her full work schedule those first 7 years, she painted primarily at night and in 2003 she began to exhibit and sell her paintings to the public. Her love of fine art had a strong pull, and in 2007 she quit her corporate job. With her art studio open full time to the public, she was able to sell and exhibit her paintings on a more consistent basis, while designing websites on the side in order to subsidize the beginning of her fine art endeavor.

In 2013 Nadine’s husband gifted her a little retail art gallery, where she exhibited her paintings alongside the work of a select group of national and international artists. After a few years promoting other artists’ work however, she closed the gallery in order to focus more fully on her own art endeavor.

An avid traveler, Nadine is greatly inspired by her journeys throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe where she’s had periods of independent studies to further her art training. She describes her work as minimal representational, letting her paintings come to light in an intuitive manner: “after applying paint to my canvas” she states “I wait and let the images emerge. Like the child who carves images from clouds, I step away from the literal and attempt to paint what I perceive and feel.”

Nadine currently lives and works in California, splitting her time between Santa Cruz and San Diego. Her artworks can be found in private collections throughout the united states and also abroad as far as Argentina, France and Australia.