Meredith Joy Ostrom Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Meredith Joy Ostrom (born 18 February 1977) American actress. She is graduate of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts where she got her BFA degree with a double major in Drama and Fine arts with a minor in Cinema Studies from the Tisch program. After graduation she moved to London where she was immersed into the music film and art world. She was linked for many years to Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes.She has donated art to causes close to her heart, such as in her first solo exhibition in March 2009 which was a successful sell-out show in which the majority of the proceeds went to the Youth for Youth international children's charity, the space was kindly donated by Philips de Pury. Donating works to the Gilda Radner cancer research Centre for recovering patients in the New York area, the World Childhood foundation's annual auction and gala, whose patron is Queen Silvia and Princess Madeline of Sweden. As well as England's Prince's Trust she donated work through Opera gallery in London.In December 2008 her work was exhibited at the Stanton Barrett Gallery in New York which was a pop up space created by formula one driver Stanton Barret and supported by fellow drivers such as formula one's Brian Vickers.On April 27, 2009 she demonstrated her body painting to an audience of over 500 at Sketch in London's Mayfair. Appearing in silhouette behind a screen she used her body and various painting techniques to produce a painting which was then revealed to the assembled crowd. The painting was then acquired by Opera Gallery.In March 2010 her work was included at Vegas Gallery in London's east end, in Keith Coventry's curated, Peep Show a group show of paintings and photography alongside Tracy Emin, Keith Tyson, Alison Jackson, Dan Macmillan, Henry Hudson, Matt Collishaw, Emer O'Brien and George Condo.In London, Meredith's paintings are now exhibited and sold in New Bond Street's Opera Gallery, in the company of her favorite modern artist such as Warhol, Picasso, Hirst, Mr. Brainwash, Banksy, Dali and Chagall. She also admits she is influenced by conceptual artist Yoko Ono of whom she shares a birthday with, February 18. Her work is also currently in One Hyde Park, the Candy and Candy building. Meredith's works are related to the dialogue of the tension between the female physical form and the idea of colour which represents emotional and intellectual movement. Many of her paintings focus on her own female physical form impressed onto vividly painted canvas.She played herself in collaborative and photography art projects and was the face to launch Sky T.v.'s Arts channel, photographed and curated by Rankin which was shown as well on Billboards across London calling it Rankin's Sky TV Street Gallery as well collaborative photographic art projects with Ellen Von Unwerth for Italian Vogue, Alison Jackson for GQ and Simon Emmet for the arts and culture magazine, Volt.As an actress she recently played the character Joany, muse to a conceptual
On March 12, 2009, she had an exhibition of her brushless paintings and projection/installation in London presented by Art Sensus gallery and Orel Art UK. A majority of the proceeds went to help the Youth for Youth charity which helps disadvantaged youth stay away from gang violence through mentoring and physical activity/art. It was a sell-out show covered by Tatler magazine and British GQ as well as the Independent and The Evening Standard. Her paintings now hang in the prestigious international Opera gallery on New Bond St which also handles the work of one of her big influences, Damien Hirst.
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Swedish cousin, Helene Aberg is best selling author in Stockholm of Exit Kalahari a real-life adventure of she and best friend fending off lions in the Kalahari desert, Viking blood prevails.
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Late grandfather, Robert Mead invented the process in which merges color tint with aluminum.
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Is a recognized painter and has had exhibitions in NY of her work, showing at Stanton Barrett Gallery. Some of her shows have been been described as a more feminist and modernly savage adaptation of Yves Klein.
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Was the girlfriend of Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes for a time. The couple broke up in February of 2009 but remain friends.
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Is of Swedish, German, English, French, Lithuanian descent.
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The first director she met and worked with was Abel Ferrara in New York City.
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Her brother, Roy, is a hedge fund manager in London
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Father Roy Ostrom is a nuclear physicist, aeronautical engineer, and environmentalist who is the author of, How To Stop Global Warming the Great Hydrogen Diet and Conspiracy
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Her mother, Barbara Ostrom, is an acclaimed interior designer/architect with such diverse clients such as Russell Simmons and the late President Richard Nixon.
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Studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York.
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Grew up in New York and is a graduate of NYU, Tisch school of the arts, drama major, cinema studies minor. She moved to Italy after graduation to film My Name Is Tanino (2002). On completion of the film, she moved to London where she was discovered by London's ICM office.
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