Gina Occhiogrosso

Shuffle (Abstract Geometric Painting of Colorful Orbs on Muslin Fabric)

2019

Brightly colored abstract mixed media painting with a gradient grey-blue background and multi-color detail "What Endures" by Hudson Valley based artist, Gina Occhiogrosso, made in 2020 acrylic and oil on piece and sewn muslin 48 x 36 inches Signed Verso Gina Occhiogrosso expands the boundaries of painting as she explores a preoccupation with the materiality of painting itself. Wet acrylic is applied to a stretched muslin surface where biomorphic shapes are formed using a combination of neon and pastel palettes. What follows is a process of disassembly and realignment when the artist cuts and sutures the painted surfaces back together. The act of cutting leads to new forms, dynamic connections, and illusions of depth. Slightly raised stitched seams act as a geometric disrupter to create both linear and sculptural elements, suggesting ties that are fragile yet unified. Her process and choice of materials are a nod to the female tradition of needlework (both of her immigrant grandmothers were seamstresses) and to commonplace materials like cotton muslin, yarn and thread used to craft something truly fine. Extremely tactile in nature, the artist has perfected a technique to make paintings that are full of suggestive qualities abstraction can create, and that allows her to “explore anxiety, loss, humor and heroic femininity.” Gina Occhiogrosso’s national group exhibition experience includes group exhibitions at The Painting Center and The Tang Teaching Museum. She served on the arts faculty at the College of Saint Rose and was the previous gallery director for the Arts Center of the Capital Region. Artist Statement: In my work, the hallowed and often masculinized tradition of painting is subverted through the cutting and sewing together of painted surfaces. The act of cutting leads to new forms, dynamic connections and illusions of depth, and the seams disrupt colorful forms that are carefully rendered and then sutured together. Intention and chance fuel this process of alignment and repositioning. Spaces and forms interact ambiguously, seemingly in flux and in conversation. I compose through the application of wet color on a surface and through the process of disassembly and realignment. Throughout the paintings, slightly raised seams are made where freshly painted edges join, creating both linear and sculptural elements. The seams suggest ties that are tenuous yet sturdy, fragile yet unified. Bright colors, shifting shapes and the visibility of seams connect to notions of pattern, fashion, crafts, and the history of “women’s work.” The toughness and thinness of the fabric is a reminder of the tension inherent in that history. Resume: SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Surfacing, Gina Occhiogrosso, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY 2020 Gathering and Easing, ZINC contemporary, Seattle, WA 2020 The Absence of Presence, Wilson Art Gallery, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY 2013 “Nobody wants to be here, nobody wants to leave,” Roos Arts Rosendale, NY 2010 The Road, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson, NY 2007 Someday, Amrose and Sable Gallery, Albany, NY GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 Big Little Color, Donise English, Gina Occhigrosso, Vincent Pomilio, Stephen Walling, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Artists of the Hudson Mohawk Region, Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer, Elisa Bertaglia, Gabriele Grones, Leslie Kerby, Gina Occhiogrosso, David Syre, Dov Talpaz,Osaretin Ugiagbe, Sasha Vinci Curated by Sara Carona, The Yard, 60th Street Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer, Elisa Bertaglia, Gabriele Grones, Leslie Kerby, Gina Occhiogrosso, David Syre, Dov Talpaz,Osaretin Ugiagbe, Sasha Vinci, curated by Sara Carona, SARAH CROWN gallery, NYC, NY Spring Mix, William Bullard, Gina Occhiogrosso, Tia Maggio, The Gallery at Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY 2021 Sunrise/Sunset, Albany International Airport Art & Culture Program, Albany, NY 2020 Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, organized by Rachel Seligman, Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator, and Minita Sanghvi, Assistant Professor of Management, Marketing, and Business, Skidmore College. Cut and Color, Paolo Arao, Melissa Dadourian, Jean Feinberg, Beth Humphrey, Michael Milton, Gina Occhiogrosso, Ruby Palmer...

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