Small Works
by Denise Giardullo
September 9-October 28
Artists Reception: Saturday, September 14, 1-3pm
Library Activity Room
Light refreshments will be served.
Artist Statement
My work is about vision. I find the interaction of color, texture, shape, and line to be very exciting, as well as my exploration of positive and negative space and how these function in my designs. I am an improvisational quilter. I begin my constructions by combining small sections of fabric, slicing the pieces and reconfiguring them until they form a cohesive unit. I keep adding additional sections until I intuitively decide it is finished. Originally trained as a painter, I often squint my eyes so that I can see objects, colors, patterns come into the foreground (positive), while other design elements recede (negative).
In my collages I tend to utilize ordinary images and objects in unusual ways, making connections between dissimilar things and subjects; many of my encaustic works have collaged images, although recently I have been using watercolor and inks to convey a sense of place.
Denise Giardullo
A graduate of SUNY New Paltz, Denise Giardullo has exhibited widely since 1981. Living and working in the Hudson Valley, her work has been shown in many local galleries, including ASK, Emerge, the Woodstock School of Art, the Olive Library, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, the Wired Gallery, Uncanny Gallery, and WAAM. Her quilt “Early Spring Rain,” was juried into a traveling Studio Art Quilt Association exhibition and is published in a catalog from the exhibit. Two of her quilts were also juried into a national quilt show and traveled to many venues in the U.S. They are included in the publication “Fly Me to The Moon,” an art quilt journey, published by Schiffer Publishing in 2017. She has curated “Quilts as an Art Form,” at the ASK Gallery in Kingston, NY., and curated figurative sculpture shows at four Wiltwyck Quilt Shows in Kingston, NY.
Working in many different mediums, she trained first as a painter and a collage artist. She now considers herself primarily an improvisational quilter, but continues to make collages, encaustic works, assemblages, watercolor paintings and soft figurative sculptures. Exhibiting extensively, she belongs to many arts organizations, and has won many blue ribbons for her quilts. In 2019 she was inducted into the Catskill Mountain Quilters Hall of Fame.
