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Statement
“The simplification, or abbreviation, of familiar images allows for inconsistencies to emerge. These discrepancies are the entry point into abstraction. My drawings and paintings are derived from different architectural spaces and building blocks, either through the literal representation of materials such as wood and bricks or by utilizing the physicality of paint and collage as structural elements. Alluding to such a diversity of materials, from organic to synthetic, allows me to take advantage of the varied qualities of the different media I employ, in this case, watercolor, gouache, and casein on paper or panel. The initial structural elements and spaces that I reference may evolve into more complex geometric systems or become obscured in the process of painting, but still provide a sense of space: of interior versus exterior, residential versus industrial, literal versus illusionistic space.”
Biography
Gianna Commito (Assistant Professor, Painting) has taught at Kent State since 2005. After receiving both her MA and MFA from the University of Iowa, she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. She served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the New York State College of Art and Design at Alfred University, and was an Artist in Residence at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, VT.
Gianna has had recent exhibitions at MoCA, Cleveland, the Weatherspoon Art Museum in North Carolina, Geoffrey Young Gallery in Massachusetts, and The Drawing Center and Taxter and Spengemann gallery in New York City.
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