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Christine Palamidessi

This artist accepts commissions

Mediums Used

Acrylic, collage, gouache, hardening agents, mixed-paper, mixed-papers, sponge, paint, wire, oil, gouach, mixed- found materials, wax, tinted, waxed plaster,

Christine Palamidessi is known in the art world for a practice that spans writing, filmmaking, sculpture, and printmaking and relates the interweaving of memory formation and perception of time to the female form. Her work typically shows fragmented artifacts, myths and words that have been partially reconstructed using tactile traditional materials, such as paper, plaster and inks. In 2017and 2022 she was Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Her work is held in collections in the Dominican Republic, Italy, France and the United States. She is recipient of a Barbara Demming Award for Women Writers and an Urban Arts Award. Her public art memoir “Grandmothers” is engraved on a granite monolith at Boston’s Orange Line Jackson Square station.

I like to tell stories.
I do that by making figurative sculpture.
The sculptures feature figurative forms that have persisted over time in cultures all over the world. The iconic shapes are built from multiple layers of hardened Lecce paper, using an age-old technique I learned from master mask makers and cartapesta artisans in Italy. Viewers recognize the sculptural forms, remnants of our common history, revisited in the present through my eyes.
The art I make is strongly influenced not only by the fascinating archeological finds I track down in museums, caves and private collections, but also by my work as a yoga teacher and writer. Yoga references speak to alignment, chakras, and how the soul presses out onto the inside layer of our skin (viewers can actually look inside many of the sculptures) and sparks the appreciation for the sacred vessel that contain our spirits. As writer and visual artist , I continue to tell stories about art and artifacts, myths, goddesses, saints and couples, warriors and virgins.

On a continuum, I explore the question we all grapple with: making sense of where we came from–personally, ancestrally, geographically–and how that relates to who we are, where we came from and what we are now.

Sculptures by Christine Palamidessi

Aphrodite Muse (Nude Torso Indoor Wall statue)

£1,532

Relax Your Mouth (Fun Fish Modern Wall sculpture)

£690

Pineapple Upside-Down (Wall Fruit sculpture)

£1,243

Releasing Black Birds from Shoulder sculpture)

£1,380

River (Naked Life-Size Woman Wall statue)

£1,243

Love Muse (Naked Nude Girl Torso Wall statue)

£1,243

Credentials

Biography

Christine Palamidessi`s sculptures and paintings are held in private collections in Italy, US, Dominican Republic and Brazil. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Boston, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Woodstock, Vermont, England and Italy; and in Boston`s State House. Her memoir “Grandmothers” is engraved on granite monolith installed at Jackson Square in Boston. She is author of two novels and editor of a collections of fiction and academic writing. Palamidessi works and resides in Cambridge, MA.

Influences

Greek and Roman Antiquities; Ancient Hindu sculptures; Samuraii Warrior Art; the color in Botticelli and Giotto`s work; the weight and space in Gaugin and Matisse; energy in Italian Futurism; Joseph Beuys philosophical outlook; Andy Warhol`s commercialism; Cy Twombly, Jean-Michel Basquit use of text on paintings; and the sculptors Rodin, Moore, Modigliani, Eva Hess, Marina Abakanowicz, Nancy Holt and......

Reviews

Artscope, 2023; Art New England 2022; Les Femme Folles: Women in Art, February 2016
Art as A Spiritual Practice, Spirit of Change Magazine, 2016
Big, Red & Shiny, November 2017.

Public Works

Eight-foot Granite Monolith "GRANDMOTHERS" installed in Boston MBTA, Jackson Square Station, Boston, MA USA

Teaching Experience
Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Writing 1992-2007. Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship Writing Coach
Public Acquisitions
New collectors in Dominican Republic, Brazil, USA and Italy. Spaulding Rehab Hospital Collection, Boston, MA.
Symposiums
Dorset House, Dorset VT 1992, 1994,1996, 2000 BAU Institute, Otranto (LE) Salento,Italy ACCM Residency, Spongano, Italy, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Awarded study period at Mass Moca (art museum) in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Categories

This artists work is found in the following categories on site:
Gods or Goddess, or Deity Sculptures Indoor Inside Interior Abstract Contemporary Modern Sculptures Interior Indoors Inside Sculpture Nudes, Female Sculptures Painted Coloured Tinted Patinated Enamelled sculptures statues statuettes Stylised Nude statue sculpture statuette ornament Torsos Chests Females / Women / Girls / Damsels Sculptures Statues statuary Wall Mounted or Wall Hanging sculpture Aquatic sculptures Fish/Shells/Sharks/Seals/Corals/Seaweed Papier Mache sculptures or statues Sea Fish sculptures Abstract Plants Fruits Trees Leaves Flowers statues sculptures Food and Drink sculpture or statue Fruit Sculpture Torsos Sculptures or Chests Flamboyant Colourful Exuberant Exotic Gaudy Gorgeous Decorative Vivid Brightly Coloured Spectacular Sculptures Focal Point Abstract Contemporary Modern sculpture statue Figurative Abstract Modern or Contemporary Sculptures Statues statuary statuettes figurines Objects of desire sculptures

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This artists work is found in the following tags on site:
Abstract Aphrodite Torso sculpture Abstract Nude Female statue Contemporary Nude Torso statue Modern Colourful Nude Wall sculpture Naked Girls Torso stature Nude Contemporary Torso sculpture Nude Female Torso statue Stylised Wall Nude Torso sculpture Amusing Painted Fish Wall statue Coloured Contemporary Fish sculpture Coloured Contemporary Fish statue Colourful Contemporary Fish Wall sculptures Decorative Coloured Wall sculpture Fun Painted Fish Wall sculpture Painted Papier Mache Fish sculpture Contemporary decorative Fruit Torso statue Contemporary Wall Fruit statues Contemporary Yellow sculptures Fruit Wall statuette Fun Coloured Fruit Wall statue Painted Pineapple Wall statue Painted semi-abstract Wall statue Yellow Pineapple Wall statue Abstract Yoga Inspired sculpture Contemporary Human Torso Wall statue Life Size Woman Torso statue Modern Art Painted Torso statue Modern Coloured Nude statue Modern Figurative Painted sculpture modern Sculpture Nude Female Contemporary Art sculpture Coloured Girl`s Torso statues Coloured Naked Torso Wall sculpture Contemporary Colourful Nude Wall sculpture Contemporary Nude Breastplate sculpture Contemporary Nude sculpture Nude Female Torso sculpture Pop Art statue Wall Mounted Nude Torso statue Abstract Art Nude Torso Coloured Sensual Abstract statues Contemporary Nude Torso sculpture Life Size Nude Torso statue Life Size Woman`s Torso statue Nude Painted Girl`s Torso statue Stylised Nude Female Wall Hanging Unique Nude Sensual Torso statue