Featured: Painter Hazel Lee Santino

Venus No. 2: Drift Venus, 2017. 11″x15″ (approximately), oil on paper and collaged oil on paper.

By WM, June 2020

Hazel Lee Santino is a painter (as well as illustrator, sculptor, educator, arts administrator, sometimes curator, and learning-to-be-an-animator) born in New York City and raised on the Lost Coast. She received a B.F.A. and B.A. from The New School (2012) in Illustration and Literary Studies and is currently based in New York, working out of the Bronx. Santino has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Art 3 Gallery and Art During the Occupation Gallery (Brooklyn, NY); Blanc Compound (Mandalyuong, Philippines); Bullet Space, Mayson Gallery, and Nancy Margolis Gallery (New York, NY). WM

Venus No. 3: Reef Venus, 2017. 11″x15″ (approximately), oil on paper and collaged oil on paper.

Fury No. 3: Dead Man’s Bells (Phoolan), 2018. 11″x15″ (approximately), oil on paper and collaged oil on paper.

Fury No. 5: True Lover’s Knot (Nevin), 2018. 11″x15″ (approximately), oil on paper and collaged oil on paper.