Copyright 2020 Alessandra Ricci
Artist’s Statement
Pandora’s Box, the mythological and vindictive gift from Zeus that Pandora opened out of curiosity. From the box broke out all evils known to humanity, including sickness, toil, rage, and suffering. Pandora managed to withhold ‘hope.’ In this painting, I wish to portray the explosion of colors and human emotions at the moment of opening the proverbial box. In suffering, we recall our individual mortality, joy and hope… to the envy of the gods.
Bio:
Alessandra Ricci was born and raised in Northern Italy. Greatly influenced by contemporary Italian sculptors and painters from an early age, she was incited to explore artistic inclinations. After completing her studies at the Depero School of Art in Rovereto, Italy in 1994, she began to cultivate her own artistic style through relentless research and experimentation. She has exhibited her art in Trento and Verona, Italy; Luzern and Zug, Switzerland; SOHO, NYC; Washington DC, and the general NOVA area. Through her work, she expresses concepts and emotions that are tied to her life experiences. Her paintings are conceived and impressed on canvas using oil colors after months of careful consideration and meditation.
Donation Appeal:
Throughout June and July, we will be presenting on this web site work by poets and artists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you will find these works relevant, comforting and inspiring as we all cope with the economic and health-related fallout.
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