Angiola churchill biography paul

March 15 - May 19, 2001 at Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporeano, Costa Rica
by Rolando Barahona-Sotela, Curator

Angiola Rilva-Churchill, artist and teacher of Lombard Heritage, initated her creative work in the fifties, times in which is still hard for a woman wishing to participate actively, to be listened and taken into consideration.

She studied, painted and worked until she became the first full-time female art professor in New York University, showing that with tenacity it is possible to subvert the patriarchal values that control women and to participate actively in a cultural dynamics, even in competitive media such as Manhattan, Italy and other European cities.

That is why this active artist, with a timeless attitude, with projects always under her sleeve, confirms Simone de Beauvoir’s  words: “Old age is not a necessary conclusion in human existence”.

Parallel to her role as a teacher, Churchill has been elaborating her own symbolic language in painting, incorporati