AnnaCarina Sinocchi, submitted artwork
AnnaCarina Sinocchi
Painting
Paterson, New Jersey
AnnaCarina Sinocchi was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1970. She earned both a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (1993) and a Master of Fine Arts degree (2013) from William Paterson University located in Wayne, New Jersey. Her artwork has been featured in both solo and group shows in galleries and museums within the United States including: the Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ; the Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY; Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; The Passaic County Arts Center at the John Rea House, Hawthorne, NJ; Castell Gallery, Ashville, NC; Impact Gallery, Buffalo, NY; and the Boyd Realty Group Gallery, Richmond, VA. Sinocchi’s work has been reviewed by New York City art critic Jonathan Goodman, Dan Bischoff of the Newark Star Ledger, William Zimmer of the New York Times and Associated Press reporter, Brad Haynes. A critical essay of her work was written by the late American poet and art historian, David Shapiro In 2009, AnnaCarina was an artist in residence at Peters Valley, Layton, NJ, with the support of Geraldine R. Dodge grant. Additionally, her work is included in both private and public collections, including NJ Congressman, Bill Pascrell, The Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY. Catalogues of her work are housed in the libraries of Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY and Conway Hall Ethical Society, London, United Kingdom.
Works
AnnaCarina Sinocchi, submitted artwork
My work integrates two disparate processes. It starts with the photogram, a unique, alternative photographic approach to image making utilizing the agency of light on a photo sensitive substrates, which in my work are paper and muslin. The photogram process is automatic and uncontrollable; thus, its outcome is unforeseeable and unique. This approach to photographic representation produces a silhouetted shape that sets the foundation for painting. The way the photograph is developed, and the transfiguration of the material surface reveals my next step in painting. By opening myself up to the unexpected, my engagement with painting is more passive than the workings of a traditional painter. I paint by orchestrating the nature of what is revealed before me. My works are influenced by antiquity and inspired by its architectural forms and motifs which persist and proceed to be embraced by their utilization in today’s world. Forms in both art and architecture are made of physical materials, yet they emanate a sensory experience that extends beyond a material world. Sense provides a gateway to the mysterious, to exploring the metaphysical. The unknown is a spatial impression which permeates our being and expands our perception of the world. My works are suggestive of those spaces that lie beyond a known world. In many of the works, the focal point is the juncture between the geometric shape and the space beyond it.
