| JACIN GIORDANO |
Jacin Giordano studied at New World School of the Arts in Miami, and earned a B.F.A. from Baltimore’s Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999. Awarded a South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant for Visual Arts in 2006, he has exhibited his work at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Locust Projects, Miami; and Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami, where he has had several solo shows. Considered one of the most promising young talents on the Miami art scene, Giordano is represented in the private Miami collections of George Lindemann, Dennis and Debra Scholl, and Arturo Mosquera. He has also made commissioned pieces for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology, Baltimore and Miami’s Four Seasons Hotel.
Giordano’s paintings and collages combine glitter, yarn, fabric, and acrylics in highly original ways. He is best known for gluing dried fragments of brightly colored acrylic paint into semi-abstract, mosaic-like patterns on canvas or wood, creating tactile surfaces in high relief. For Giordano, colors carry expressive meaning: "…black and white stripes are meant to represent…adulthood, callousness, science and logic, masculinity, certainty and coolness…[while]…the colored segments stand for childhood, poetry, rainbows, warmth, femininity and romanticism." Giordano has recently shifted to a more representational mode, making portraits such as Man and Woman, in which black chips of paint are aligned in patterns from which the figures "emerge" when viewed in a certain light.
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