CAROL CASE SIRACUSE
It has been said that art is a reflection of ourselves and how we see and live life. This means so much more to me today than it would have a few years back. Since retiring from the practice of architecture, I am experiencing a new opportunity to grow, a new life as an artist. Expressing my observations in pen, pencil and watercolor, I can give form to my visions and my passions, the landscape of our surroundings and the inspiration of our travels. These creative urges will keep me occupied forever. What a privilege. My reward is simply contentment.
BIOGRAPHY
A Buffalo-based artist and retired architect, Carol Siracuse studied printmaking and drawing with Leonard Baskin at Smith College before undertaking her architectural training at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Princeton University. She practiced architecture in Boston, and Ithaca, opening her own firm in Chautauqua County in 1980. In 2001 she moved to Buffalo to apply her educational planning expertise, and became a vice president at Cannon Design, retiring in 2010 after 38 years of practice. At Cannon she concentrated her nine year effort on the Strategic Plan for the Reconstruction of the Buffalo Public Schools, a project which fueled her passion for the architectural heritage of Buffalo, NY. It is her belief that Buffalo offers such a diverse and rich architectural palette that there is something amazing for every eye and taste.
A signature member of Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society, she retired as its president in 2016 to take over the duties of Communications Director. She is an Exhibiting Member of the prestigious Buffalo Society of Artists, the Fine Arts League of Buffalo, and Western New York Artists Group. Her images of Buffalo, its architecture and gardens, and her travels have been shown most recently in the group shows, Buffalo – a work in progress at Studio Hart in Buffalo, The Travellers Muse, Journaling Around the World at Dana Tillou Fine Arts in Buffalo, 20 Minutes from Everywhere at Artists Group Gallery, and Luminance Group Watercolor Exhibit at Meibohm Fine Arts. Her solo show Captured Travels was held in 2016 at Betty’s in Buffalo. Her most recent solo show was at the Garret Club in Buffalo in 2019. Her paintings have been accepted into juried shows for the Adirondack National Exhibition of American Watercolors; her painting Tom winning an award in the 2018 Exhibition, and The BSA, WNYAG and NFWS. Her painting, Sunset on Hertel Avenue, won the Gold Medal in the 119th Catalogue Show of the Buffalo Society of Artists, Fall 2015. Her painting Concrete Elevators won the Bronze Medal at the BSA’s 126th Catalogue Exhibition in 2022. Her work is in the collection of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the Castellani Art Center at Niagara University, and private collections across the country. She is included in the regional artists archives of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and is represented by the Comma, Meibohm Fine Arts in East Aurora, NY, Portage Hill Art Center in Mayville, NY, and Tesori in Williamsville, NY.