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Naza is Maria Nazareth Maia Rufino McFarren (born 19 April 1955) is a Brazilian painter, best known for her
abstract paintings Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th ...
of officials, celebrities, and endangered species.


Biography

Naza was born and attended elementary school in Santa Cruz do Piauí,
Piauí Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP. Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66&n ...
and high school in
Fortaleza Fortaleza (, locally , Portuguese for ''Fortress'') is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It belongs to the Metropolitan mesoregion of Fortaleza and microregion of Fortaleza. It is Brazil's 5th largest city and the t ...
. She started university in
Teresina Teresina is the capital and most populous municipality in the Brazilian state of Piauí. Being located in north-central Piauí 366 km from the coast, it is the only capital in the Brazilian Northeast that is not located on the shores of the ...
and in 1976, moved to Brasilia, where she began painting professionally. The same year she moved to
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, where she lived for five years. It was here that Naza began developing her style, and made her first solo exhibition. Also in Recife, she had her daughter, Guiomar Rufino Lins e Silva in 1979. In 1982, Naza started working for the
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and took a job in the city of
Picos Picos is a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil. Picos is the state's third-largest city, located in the south-central region of Piauí and is the most economically developed city in the region. The city's finan ...
. While living there, Naza traveled to make presentations and painting portraits in Fortaleza, Brazil, Recife, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. In Picos, she met and married Stuart McFarren, an American, and moved to the United States. First they went to Saint Thomas, and then to
Dalton, Ohio Dalton is a village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States. The 2010 census indicated a population of 1,830. History Dalton had its start in 1855 with the merging of three neighboring rival villages in Sugar Creek Township named Dover (est. 1817 ...
. From there, she went to live for three years at Fort Kobbe, a U.S. military base in Panama. In Panama she was hired to paint portraits of high society in the country. Among her clients were General Noriega and his family. It was in Panama at Gorgas Hospital, that her son, Daniel McFarren, was born, in 1987. Naza moved to
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, in 1988. The current phase of the artist is the result of research while living in Arlington. The painting "Losing the Fear of Red", was a cornerstone and a major shift in her artistic direction. In 1990, she moved to Barbados, where she lived a few months. Already separated, she moved with her two children to
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. There, she spent three years working as an artist, as a teacher of Portuguese to the
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, and art teacher for
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. In 1993, she moved to the city of
Boca Raton, Florida Boca Raton ( ; es, Boca Ratón, link=no, ) is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It was first incorporated on August 2, 1924, as "Bocaratone," and then incorporated as "Boca Raton" in 1925. The population was 97,422 in the ...
, where she opened a studio (Naza Art Studio) at Palmetto Park Road. She became intensely involved with the local community. She was an active member of several local organizations, including, Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, Women in Visual Arts, Boca Raton Professional Artists Guild, American Pen Women, Soroptimists International. In 1998, the journalist Suzane Jales wrote and published the book ''O Figurativo Abstrato de Naza (Abstracted Realism by Naza)''. Naza moved to Deerfield Beach in 2003, and in 2005, began to create clothes and other products inspired by her paintings. Her art was at the mansion of Donald Trump in
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, attended by several celebrities, including Debbie Gibson, David Carradine and Dan Haggerty. Between December 2007 and May 2019, the Artist lived most of the year in Brazil, where her wearable art pieces were being manufactured. From 2013 to 2015 Kjetil Breien Furuseth owned a Naza Art & Fashion shop, in Porto de Galinhas, Ipojuca, PE, Brazil. Currently Naza resides in
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area, FL. In 2019 Naza started using the computer to create most of her artworks, migrating from oil on canvas to digital art.


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Artist's website
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Naza 1955 births Living people 20th-century Brazilian women artists 21st-century Brazilian women artists 21st-century Brazilian artists Abstract painters Brazilian painters Brazilian women painters Brazilian emigrants to the United States People from Piauí Pseudonymous artists People from Picos