Marcia Biasiello
Lincolnshire, Illinois, USA
Bio
Marcia Biasiello’s work has been exhibited in the USA and Europe, and is included in private collections in the US and Canada.
Artist Statement
Marcia Biasiello sees her images as visual narratives and love poems depicting pivotal moments where what happens before, after, and even during is open with possibility. She thinks of the frame as drawing a line around an otherwise normal environment and otherwise uneventful moment. By constraining the space and loading it with extremes, a next step seems inevitable, from choice not constraint. The figures’ interactions—him and her, him and the past, her and the future—overlay the present moment to make any next move possible. She doesn’t know what each figure presented in these paintings will do next and invites the viewer to imagine.
I have always been moved by story. We tell them out loud to each other and silently, to ourselves, sometimes without realizing it. Narrative connects the subtle, revealing and creating meaning. The branch, the chair, the adored, the longing, the projection, the connection. Words move us. And, images do as well, hopefully not just the instant and disposable.
Paintings are the after-effect of selecting materials, finding color based on sensitivity to hue, saturation, and tone, and the body’s response to an emotional connection to the act of applying the paint and moving. Seeing the image is witnessing and in turn experiencing the artist’s interaction with materials imbued with emotional response to the subject matter and the physical. It is the visual trail of a kind of dance.
For me, my work is both a release and a reaching.
