About
Photograph portrait by Olga Antipina
Born in Rome, Italy.
Currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York.
She graduated in 'Painting' at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in 2010 and she received her Master Degree in 'Multimedia and Technological Arts' in 2013.
Her current works incorporate parts of her traditional painting, drawing and history studies with contemporary media and materials to create immersive installations, drawing viewers into dreamlike worlds of her design. She is currently working mostly using metal forming and welding fabrication techniques.
'My work explores intimacy and investigates the relationship between opposing elements of the reality before us and the distorted perception created within our minds and dreams. Through creating visions of people and imaginary places, I focus attention on the relationship between the reality and what is indefinable. Perceptions, dreams, imagination, illusion, hallucination, grotesque, and amorphous forms are used to convey an intimate, yet alien atmosphere. I wish to create a relationship with the viewers, while pushing their limits of comfort. My intent is to form a space where all the confusion, uncertainty, and anxiety that comes from the distortion and skewing of perception are felt. While trained in painting and drawing, I use whatever material or medium I feel is needed to best realize my work.'
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2013 Master's Degree (110/110 cum Laude) in Multimedia and Technological Arts at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Rome, Italy
2010 Bachelor's degree (110/110 cum Laude) in Painting at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Rome, Italy
RESIDENCIES
2022 Franconia Sculpture Park, MN
2022 The Steel Yard, Providence, RI
2021 Salem Art Works - Blacksmith Studio Artists, Returning Artist, Salem NY
2019 Salem Art Works- Studio Artists Program- Black Smithing studio, Salem NY
SELECTED AND MOST RECENTS EXHIBITIONS
2022
Public Sculpture “Acorn” installed at Franconia Sculpture Park, MN
From Core to Surface, Center for Metal Arts, PA. In occasion of the CMA’s second annual Cambria Iron Conference.
Eisenwunderwelt (Iron Wonder World), MOVING POETS Novilla, Berlin, Germany. In occasion of the ICCCIA (International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art).
PAC’s 14th Foundation Show, Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket RI.
UNCONTESTED, SLA Art Space, New York, NY 10001.
2021
BORDERWALLS IV, The Border Project Space, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Jamie Martinez.
We Are The World, St. Francis College, Downtown Brooklyn,NY. Curated By Lise Curry and Francine Rogers.
Art With Metal, Wetherby-Pembridge School, New York NY.
Invocations Of Light, SLA Art Space, Lithuanian Alliance of America, New York, NY.
Koha- gift, The West 132nd Street Community Garden, 117 West 132nd Street, New York, NY
Conversations with the Earth, SLA Art Space, Lithuanian Alliance of America, New York, NY.
Happenstance (March 6th - April 3rd), SLA Art Space, Lithuanian Alliance of America, New York, NY.
2020
SAW Fall Fundraising Online Auction
A Room Of Your Own, SLA Art Space, Lithuanian Alliance of America, New York, NY.
Encircle, The West 132nd Street Community Garden, New York, NY
Fantasia, One Brooklyn Bridge Park exhibition space, Brooklyn NY
Social Distancing International Virtual Exhibition, curated by Michael Rose
Ways to Disappear on a Sofa...and Other Stories, Inaugural digital Exhibition, 601Artspace, New York, NY
Craft in Contemporary Art, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Juried by Samantha De Tillio.2019
Biennial of the artist's book V^ edition, Monumental Complex of San Domenico Maggiore - Library room, Naples IT
BECOMING, North Main Gallery, Salem NY
Pop-App. Scienza, arte e gioco nella storia dei libri animati dalla carta alle app, Museum of the Central Institute for Graphics, via della Stamperia 6, Rome, Italy. Curated by Gianfranco Crupi.
2018
New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC)
2017
Metal—A Sculpture Exhibit, Governor’s Island, NYC
Fondazione Pescarabruzzo: opere d’arte per la tutela ambientale, la Maison des Arts of Fondazione Pescarabruzzo, Pescara PE, Italy
MUGSHOTS: Celebrating Ceramics and all mediums with a focus on the face,Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, Oregon
PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
“Acorn” (November 19th for 9 months), Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota
“Tea In The Garden With Sweets” (July 24th - September 30th, 2021), The West 132nd Street Community Garden, 117 West 132nd Street, New York, NY
“I Write You a Flower”- (September 5th - October 3dr) West 132nd St. Block Association Garden / NYC Parks GreenThumb, NY
PUBLIC COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Since 2020 Co Founder of The Artist Gardener NYC
AWARDS
2022 Pawtucket Foundation Show 1st Place Winner
2022 Money to Burn mini grant recipient - Society of Inclusive Blacksmith
2020 Red Dot Prize Best In Show at Phillis Harriman Mason Gallery, Manhattan NY
2017 Finalist of the Art Section of the Contest Opere D’Arte per la Tutela Ambientale
2015 Sidney Glusman Merit Award
EDUCATIONAL/WORKSHOPS
2017 - Present : Substitute Instructor – Metal Sculpture Class The art Students League of New York
January - May 2022: Mentor in the Society Of Inclusive Blacksmiths (SIB) Mentorship Program
October 22nd 2021: Magnetic Paintings: Paint, Punch and Texture Metal Workshop, at Wetherby-Pembridge School NY, 7 E 96th Street, New York NY 10128.
ARTIST TALKS
November 1st, 2022: Dinner & Discussion at Franconia Sculpture Park’s Facebook page.
June 4th 2019: SAW Artists In residence talk at Union College, 807 Union St, Schenectady, NY 12308.
June 5th 2019: SAW Artist Presentation, North Main Gallery, Salem NY
2022 Pawtucket Foundation Show 1st Place Winner