Artist statment

Fiona Dowdee was born and raised in Los Angeles, California currently working at Resin Gallery as the manager of the youth Program. Having grown up with two artist parents in a homeschooled environment, she absorbed creativity from the start. Fiona began to paint at a young age, as well as becoming prolific in Special Effects Makeup, so much so that at age 12 she began working for the city of Pasadena adorning participants with wounds and injuries for disaster response training. Her accomplishments in Special Effects Makeup garnered her a commendation from the Pasadena Fire Chief.

When she started public highschool, she joined the AP Studio Art classes and her deep love for painting grew, leading to multiple school art show awards and two Rotary Craftsmanship awards.

After high school, she Began Working at an art gallery called Resin, In Hermosa Beach and joined their artist collective Indivisible Arts. During her time at Resin and with Indivisible, she has Been Manager of the youth arts program teaching students Many different mediums of art. She also has helped create and teach Creative Consciousness classes for at-risk and special needs kids in Los Angeles county.

Her work began to be inspired by her upbringing from a feminist mother, driving her to create large realistic pieces focusing on the female form. Her work was featured in many art shows through Indivisible Arts, earning her multiple best in show awards. Her work was also featured in the TV show Lucifer (Season 5 episode 13).

After taking two gap years to continue teaching at Resin Gallery, she was accepted into Pratt Institute, NYC, for painting. She began studying there in 2019, learning how to combine the realism painting she knew with more contemporary and multimedia styles. Still a part of the Resin Galleries’ Indivisible Arts Collective during her time in NYC, she has been in multiple shows in Los Angeles, and was featured in AwareNow Magazine's “Dreams” issue.

After a year at Pratt, she took a hiatus starting in 2022 to focus on building her body of work and establishing connections in the art world. Her work now focuses on combining classical figurative oil painting and contemporary attributes Of digital manipulation to create pieces that reflect the turbulence of youth life and the juxtaposition between life and technology.