Briell Giancola
(b.1993) is an artist working and living in Philadelphia, PA. Focusing on the mediums of painting and installation, Giancola often utilizes color to ground and establish an inherent balance in her pieces. Throughout her work, a common thread is the creation of experiences for and with her viewer. Currently, Giancola is making work that questions digital imagery and consumption of media and aims to drive it back to an analog form.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores the relationship between memory and the online metaverse, employing abstraction and digital imagery to express relational aesthetics in a liminal space. Color is used intuitively to ground the work in reality while layering visual cues inspired by the virtual realm. The grid, data recollection, algorithm, and generated experiences are themes found throughout the work. I use tactile materials like airbrush, acrylic, ink, and latex to replicate a seemingly computer-generated image to examine the viewer’s relationship with reality and cyberspace. My art is rooted in a feverish need to document daily life and utilize virtual spaces as archives of memory to supplement personal experiences. My practice crosses many boundaries of genre and production methods – including large-scale installation, fashion design, and collaboration. Through each discipline exists a spectrum of worlds, organic and virtual, each manifesting human interaction and recollection that I aim to produce in my work. Whether it takes form in an immersive installation or as an intimate painting, my work is designed as an engagement with the viewer to inspire curiosity and connection.
CURRICULUM VITAE
CURRENT WORK CAN BE SEEN AT
Group show at HOTBED, Philadelphia, PA, Closing August 12, 2023
Last Call, triptych painting in the dining room at Good Luck Restaurant, 50 Anderson Avenue, Rochester NY
Meet Me Under the Clock, Mercantile on Main in the Sibley Building, Rochester NY
Mural in School 8, Rochester NY
Mural in the Linc Alliance Building, Rochester NY
PAST EXHIBITIONS AND SELECTED WORKS
2023
WACK!, Group Show, HOT BED, Philadelphia, PA
.com, Solo Show at Melo, Rochester, NY
2022
www., Solo Show, Fuego, Rochester, NY
2021
The Data Collection, custom wearable art collection for Edge of Light show Fashion Week Rochester 2021, Dome Arena, Rochester, NY
6X6, Group Show, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
Linear and Far, Solo Show and installation in collaboration with Flor pop-up restaurant (6-week residency with Chef Chris Cullen, formerly of La Bernardin, and Kate Prokop), Kin, Rochester, NY
Get Lost And See Something (G.L.A.S.S.), GroupShow, The Mercantile on Main, Sibley Square, Rochester, NY
2020
They could be You, site-specific public installation for PLAY/GROUND 2020, presented by Resource Art, Canalside outside of the Explore and More Children’s Museum in Buffalo NY
Suffrage and Struggle: Feminist art and the 19th Amendment Centennial, Group Show, Juried by Jan Howard, Chief Curator and Houghton P. Metcalf, Jr. Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, RISD Museum, Dorance H. Hamilton Gallery, Providence, RI
2019
PROXIMITY, Solo Exhibition with Sommelier collaboration, Apogee, Rochester, NY
What’s Worth Saving?, Group Show, Milkhaus, Ferrisberg, VT
RoCo 28th Members Exhibition, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2018
In the Realm of Whimsy, Norchar, Rochester, NY
6X6, Group Show, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
Milkhaus, Group Show, Ferrisburgh, VT
No Man’s Land, Politits Art Coalition Juried Group Exhibition, The Yards Collective, Rochester, NY
RoCo 27th Members Exhibition, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2017
Solo Painting Show, 540WMain Learning Academy, Rochester, NY
RealLookers, Group Show, Cohen Gallery, Alfred, NY
La Construcción de un Hogar, Solo Exhibition, Sala Mercado de la Merced, Cadiz, Spain
Milkhaus, Group Show, Ferrisburgh, VT
2016
All Night Esso, Solo Show, Starry Nites Cafe, Rochester, NY
2015
Reality Show, Group Thesis Exhibition, Cohen Gallery, Alfred, NY
Art Walk, Group Exhibition, Alfred, NY
An Evening Of Dance, Miller Theater, Alfred, NY
2014
Shift, Two-Person Exhibition Robert C. Turner Gallery, Alfred, NY
Open Portfolio Show, SGC International Conference, San Francisco, CA
SGC or Bust, Group Exhibition, Robert C. Turner Gallery, Alfred, NY
International Print Exchange, Group Exhibition, Plymouth, England
Diptych, Group Exhibition, Robert C. Turner Gallery, Alfred, NY
Print Club Show, Group Exhibition, Robert C. Turner Gallery, Alfred, NY
Informal Dance Showcase, Original Choreography, C.D. Smith III Theater, Alfred, NY
2013
Woods, Adelphia Dance Studios, Solo Performance, Original Choreography, Alfred, NY
Corn Hill Arts Festival, Emerging Artist Expo solo tent, Rochester, NY
LECTURES
2023
Visiting Artist Lecture at University of New England
RESIDENCIES & RESEARCH
2018
Guest Critic for The Yards, Collaborative Residency, The Yards, Rochester, NY
2017
Selected Artist in Residence, Pinea Linea de Costa, Rota, Spain
2016
Solo Professional Development Research, Cuba
EDUCATION
2016
Alfred University, New York State College of Ceramics (BFA)
PUBLICATIONS
2022
How the crops feel, Midnight, Issue 3, Lilac Magazine, Rochester, NY
1:1, First Love, Issue 2, Lilac Magazine, Rochester, NY
2020
Buffalo Spree Magazine, Buffalo, NY
2016
ArtHousePress, Art Magazine, Issue one, Rochester, NY