About The Artist
Melissa Fiorentino
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Biography
Melissa paints and learns by studying her influences that range from Michelangelo to Piet Mondrian. A variety of color schemes, intense and sometimes risky subject matter help Fiorentino&rsquos work to be so shocking and different that they stand out. She tends to have a unique style bringing a representational piece, abstract and a portrait all into one. It is a way to allow a way for there to be a reality and dream or nightmare enclosed onto one image.
Melissa Fiorentino is a artist who &ldquocreates paintings that show a different side of life, the side where we are learning, discovering and living through the feeling that moves through our veins during the process&ldquo(Fiorentino), that rush that we feel. Her paintings suggest a reality stringing a type of personality extention of the subject in the painting by bringing together a surreal and abstract idea of what a person feels while they are experiencing life.
Challenge and problem solving skills are involved in Fiorentino&rsquos work and she uses these things to track her growth as an artist and as a person. She had her work in the Appleton Museum of Art when she was only 16 years old and from that moment on started working and getting herself into any art shows that she could get into that was at her disposal. Fine Arts for Ocala started to bring her many awards each year, than getting awards such as the Award of Merit in 2002 and the Award of Distinction in 2003 has fueled her aspirations. Youngest artist to have her own booth and display her own work at the age of 19 in 2003 for Fine Arts For Ocala, now she is working on getting herself into any art festivals and galleries possible. Fiorentino plans to start a new idea of painting and work towards opening her own gallery and studio all in one, so that people may see her work as she progresses towards her changing styles. Actively working in her studio in Ocala, FL, she is working towards earning a name for herself and painting up a huge portfolio worth of paintings that express her ideas and discoveries as an artist and person.
Statement
I create art that shows life, but not in the way others do. What I mean by this is that I create paintings that show a different side of life, the side where we are learning, discovering and living through the feeling that moves through our veins during the process. Art is the escape from the reality of everyday life, a chance to leave this chaotic world for a while and go somewhere where we feel life differently or notice the unnoticeable. I know that is what I feel when I see a painting or anything that moves me and that, is what I want to do for others and give them an opportunity to do the same. I just hope to find that people can see something in my art that moves them, that makes them get goose-bumps or makes them feel the need to stop every time they walk by and to give them the feeling of being alive!
Life is art and art is life. Creating an exact emotion through a painting is number one on my list and to give life and painting a meaning and a purpose.
Artist History
Self taught drawing from 1999 to present.
Self taught painting from 2003 to present.
Central Florida Community College, 2001-2002, 2007-2008
Studied with Jack Thursby and various other local painters in Ocala, FL.
Signed up on 11/12/2006
Category: Painting