Lenore Vardi

Internationally recognized for her outstanding performances on the violin, Lenore Vardi is emerging as an exciting visual artist with her colorful abstract renditions of musical instruments.

As a violinist and violist, she has appeared in solo recital, chamber music, and as a soloist with orchestra world-wide and has performed and recorded with many acclaimed artists ranging from Placido Domingo and Itzhak Perlman, to Tony Bennet and Frank Sinatra.

The esteemed critic of the New York Post lauded Ms. Vardi as a violinist of elegance and musicianship...a natural performer.

Equally gifted as a painter, Ms. Vardi has been deeply involved in visual art since her early 20's as a natural extension of her artistic sensibility.

Since childhood, I have had a serious fascination with architectural and geometric design. My deep admiration of Indonesian and Japanese artistry has created a desire to express simplicity, clean line, and texture in my work. Color, with its definite power and impact is also a very important component of my paintings.
Musical instruments make charming subjects, and because of my background in music, their beautiful shapes and attributes have inspired my abstract renditions. I delight in using not only my chosen instrument but many others that are so striking in their beauty.
I find that harmony, balance, flow, structure, and color are important in both music and art which I believe are intimately related.
As an artist, I love creating whimsical combinations of instruments as I endeavor to show their intimate interactions in performance and delicacy, variety, bivrancy, and beauty of the music that they are capable of producing. My fondest desire is for my paintings to excite the imagination, thereby allowing the viewer to 'hear' The Sight of Music

Ms. Vardi has been represented by over a dozen galleries throughout the US, and currently resides in Cedar Falls, IA with her artistically inclined cocker spaniel, Livvy.