Biography
Dee Lobo was born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She painted many portraits from life of children in pastel and oils at Hyannis, Dennisport, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Dee graduated from the Art Institute of Boston and studied at the Art Student's League of New York City with Daniel Greene, Harvey Dinnerstein, and John Howard Sanden. She also studied sculpture with Rita Fritz of New Jersey.
Dee lived in Miami and Miami Beach, Florida, for 10 years and painted portraits in several hotels, including the Eden Roc Hotel. She taught art (all media), drawing floral, animal, portrait, and human studies for the New Jersey Adult Education Program. She has been in selected one-woman shows in Greenwich Village, New York; Cultural Center, Morris Township; New Jersey.
She is a Life Member of the Art Students' League of New York City, and the Tampa Regional Artists, Inc. Dee is also a member of Las Damas de Arte and Friday Morning Musicale and Barksdale Recreation Center.
She has lived in Tampa, Florida, since 1995 and was a member of the TRA executive board. In this capacity, she was in charge of TRA workshops, teaching classes, life classes, and programs.
Dee is presently teaching All Media classes at Allegro Assistant Living at Hyde Park.
She has been a judge and juror for a number of art competitions in the New Jersey and Tampa Bay, Florida, area.
Dee has had several prestigious commissions including celebrities, doctors, attorneys, a memorial pastel permanently displayed in Tampa's St. Joseph's Children Hospital, and an oil portrait of the Hinely family on permanent display at Hinely Hall, Florida College, Temple Terrace, FL.
