For nine decades, Chryssie Tavrides (b. 1928) has made art — and others' enjoyment of her art — her lifelong passion and career as a working artist. One need spend only a few minutes with the artist's work in any media to grasp both Tavrides' breadth of subject matter and innate talents as a painter and draftswoman. From commissioned and family portraits to florals and seascapes, Tavrides' works on display in this exhibition serve as a retrospective of a life spent observing and interpreting, creating studies of the people, sights, and environments around her in an approachably impressionistic manner. 

A native of Chicago, Tavrides studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, first as a ten-year-old when she attended art classes for grade schoolers and then again, more officially, as a degree-earning undergraduate fine arts student.  Now a resident of Florida for the past 30 years and at age 94, Tavrides still works out of her studio and home here in Central Florida.  

The works in this exhibition range from the 1970s to the 21st century and cover a spectrum of materials and techniques, including acrylic, charcoal, stone lithography, and mixed-media.