Poetry & Science
NEW PAINTINGS BY Mary Giammarino
JULY 31 - August 6, 2020
Mary Giammarino’s devotion to light and color is evident in all of the paintings in her second show at Four Eleven Gallery, Poetry & Science. While her work is influenced by the impressionist palette of the Cape School of Art, her work is less idealized and more contemporary by design. Giammarino’s plein-air paintings reflect her passion and devotion to capturing the exquisite drama of nature’s fleeting moods. She has been returning to Provincetown to paint and study the Cape light every spring since 1989. Being drawn to plein-air painting, Giammarino sought out the Cape School of Art in Provincetown on Cape Cod. She studied with Hilda Neily, John Ebersberger and Cedric and Joanette Egeli. Today, she carries on the tradition by teaching plein-air painting classes on the Cape, in Vermont and on trips to Italy.
About her process, Giammarino muses, “I’m driven to paint like a zombie is to brains. The light is the shiny thing that draws me. Observation and research are my life-long process. I combine variations of red, yellow, blue and white paint on a two-dimensional surface to attempt to represent and express the beautiful earth in our Milky Way!”