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Maria Scaglione Photography
Maria Scaglione
Cell: 860-857-9673
E-mail: [email protected]
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AS220 Galleries host local Artist-Photographer
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My Shadowbox World
A Solo Installation by Artist–Photographer Maria Scaglione
Providence, RI — A solo installation of the work of photographer Maria Scaglione opens Saturday, October 7 at AS220 Project Space Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island.
The opening reception will be from 5-7 p.m., Saturday, October 7 at 93 Mathewson Street in the main building of the AS220 campus. The public is invited to the opening. Refreshments will be provided.
The exhibit continues through Saturday, October 28.
This mid-career artist is exhibiting the artistic photography that she has created in the past few years. Her work features a cast of characters in their personal environments. She thinks of this work as a small museum of humanity, a “shadowbox world” that will inspire and please the viewer.
Scaglione says, “I have been an observer all my life. I see people who have made up their own world. Within the cracks of their world, I find a way in, almost a peephole. I see myself as a witness.”
Scaglione has earned Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) grants and many awards and honorable mentions in museums and galleries throughout the region. In the past year, she has also founded and managed Photo-Op, an organizational framework for creating group shows of local photographers.
Scaglione’s personal history is a classic New England story. She was born in southern Italy, in the mountains of Calabria. As she entered her teens, her family had the opportunity to join the thriving Italian community of 1970s Westerly, Rhode Island. As anyone can imagine, her life and art, and her life as an artist, has been dramatically affected by this single event.
Scaglione attended Rhode Island College (1995) and also apprenticed herself to a marble-carving studio in the historic town of Pietrasanta in northern Italy. Even as she was learning to carve marble, she began her pursuit of making photographs. When she returned to this country to pursue her M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1999), she found a fertile subject in her immediate family who continue to carry on their old-world traditions in Westerly.
Scaglione has recently posted a very well-received exhibit in July at the venerable Hoxie Gallery in Westerly.
Scaglione’s website is http://www.mariascaglione.com/
AS220 is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, e-mail Neal Walsh, Galleries Director at [email protected] or telephone 401-831-9327.
For further information, contact:
Maria Scaglione Photography
Maria Scaglione
Cell: 860-857-9673
E-mail: [email protected]
HEADLINE
AS220 Galleries host local Artist-Photographer
SUB-HEAD
My Shadowbox World
A Solo Installation by Artist–Photographer Maria Scaglione
Providence, RI — A solo installation of the work of photographer Maria Scaglione opens Saturday, October 7 at AS220 Project Space Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island.
The opening reception will be from 5-7 p.m., Saturday, October 7 at 93 Mathewson Street in the main building of the AS220 campus. The public is invited to the opening. Refreshments will be provided.
The exhibit continues through Saturday, October 28.
This mid-career artist is exhibiting the artistic photography that she has created in the past few years. Her work features a cast of characters in their personal environments. She thinks of this work as a small museum of humanity, a “shadowbox world” that will inspire and please the viewer.
Scaglione says, “I have been an observer all my life. I see people who have made up their own world. Within the cracks of their world, I find a way in, almost a peephole. I see myself as a witness.”
Scaglione has earned Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) grants and many awards and honorable mentions in museums and galleries throughout the region. In the past year, she has also founded and managed Photo-Op, an organizational framework for creating group shows of local photographers.
Scaglione’s personal history is a classic New England story. She was born in southern Italy, in the mountains of Calabria. As she entered her teens, her family had the opportunity to join the thriving Italian community of 1970s Westerly, Rhode Island. As anyone can imagine, her life and art, and her life as an artist, has been dramatically affected by this single event.
Scaglione attended Rhode Island College (1995) and also apprenticed herself to a marble-carving studio in the historic town of Pietrasanta in northern Italy. Even as she was learning to carve marble, she began her pursuit of making photographs. When she returned to this country to pursue her M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1999), she found a fertile subject in her immediate family who continue to carry on their old-world traditions in Westerly.
Scaglione has recently posted a very well-received exhibit in July at the venerable Hoxie Gallery in Westerly.
Scaglione’s website is http://www.mariascaglione.com/
AS220 is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, e-mail Neal Walsh, Galleries Director at [email protected] or telephone 401-831-9327.