MEET OUR JUROR, DAGGI WALLACE

Born and raised in Berlin, Germany, Daggi is a self-taught award winning painter specializing in contemporary figurative realism and portraiture. She spent more than 40 years living in the USA, where she has reached the level of Eminent Pastelist of the International Association of Pastel Societies, Master Pastelist of the Pastel Society of America, and Distinguished Pastelist of the Pastel Society of the West Coast. Working primarily in pastel and charcoal, she pushes the more traditional boundaries of the medium by incorporating other materials into her work and presentation. Inspired by her dual cultural life, she mixes realism with abstraction, and personal narrative with social undercurrents.