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Born in a Hungarian farming community in 1925, Vilma Guttenberger was influenced by Durer, Rubens, Murillo, Rembrandt, and especially Vermeer. Her later years were spent in Winter Haven and Lakeland. Vilma's daughter Veronika graciously loaned the works for this exhibit

Karla Pirona is a figurative oil painter whose work serves as a bridge between cultural inheritance and contemporary experience. She is the pioneer of Venezuelan Neorealism, a pictorial movement rooted in the psychological depth of mestizaje and the diasporic experience, which explores how identities are formed at the intersection of history, geography, and time. Karla's work has been shown internationally and is held in numerous public and private collections, continuing to document the evolution of place and identify through the lens of Narrative Realism. A local artist, Karla is a member of the American Artist Professional League, the National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society, Bartow Art Guild, the Portrait Society of America, and the Polk County Arts & Cultural Alliance.