christine palamidessi

I am interested in re-consecrating and re-mythologizing as many images as I can. Consequently, my work references God, gods and goddesses, myths and their intersection with regular every-day humans. I often look at skin and the interior of the torso, where breath begins and ends life-- I believe the heart and breath is what animates art. We all touch above our heart when we speak of ourselves.Making art, I get in touch with who I am and who we are, therefore re-consecrating the human search for meaning in our busy lives; it is a peaceful place to be. I want to share the art and the sensation of the place where we create art.

Christine Palamidessi studied with master artisans in Lecce, Rome, and Venice Italy. Her 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 MBTA Station in Boston. She is author of two novels and editor of a collections of fiction and academic writing.

Artist Residencies
2017 American Academy in Rome
2017 MassMoCA ( North Adams, MA)
2015 ACCM Palace Bacile di Castiglione in Spongano,Italy.
2014 BAU, Otranto Italy.
1992, 1994, 1996, 1998- Dorset House, Dorset, VT

Awards:
1998 Dante Alighieri Fellowship (study in Rome)
1996 Barbara Deming Award for Women Artists
1995 UrbanArts Award (public art)

Professor at Boston University.

Public Art:
Eight-foot granite monolith permanently installed at Jackson Square, Boston, MA.

Solo Shows:
2016 -“Yogi Stupa”, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston.
2014 - “Episodes of Violence,” Otranto Castle, Otranto , Italy.
2014 - “The Brazilians,” West Side Lounge, Cambridge, MA .

Group Exhibitions:
2017 - Visionary Art Show, Palazzo Vernazza Castromediano, Lecce, Italy. 
2017 - (Honorable Mention) “Wings, Beaks, Feathers,” ArtScape, W. Concord, MA.
2017 - “escape,” Annemarie Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Museum affiliate), Solomons, MD.
2017 -”Inside Outside,” Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2015 - Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2015 - Cambridge Art Association, Fall Salon, Cambridge MA.
2015 - Galatea Gallery, New England Collective VI, Boston, MA.
2015 - Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2015 - University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2015 - Unbound Vol V, Artistree, Woodstock, VT.
2015 - Doppelganger, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA.
2015 - Annemarie Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Museum affiliate), Solomons, MD.
2015 - Palazzo Bacile di Castiglione, Spongano, Salento, Italy.
2015 - Biennale Project, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
2015 - Whatcom Museum, National Salon des Refusés, Bellingham, WI.
2015 - Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, RI.
2014 - Figure50, Massachusetts Artists (online curated exhibit of 50 US figurative artists).
2014 - Unbound Vol IV, Artistree, Woodstock, VT.
2014 - Galatea Gallery, New England Collective V, Boston, MA.
2014 - Annemarie Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Museum affiliate), Solomons, MD
2014 - Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA.
2014 - Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA.
2013 - Galatea Gallery, New England Collective IV, Boston, MA.
2013, 2014 - Artist's Choice, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA.
2011, 2012 and 2013 - Boston State House, Boston, MA.
2012 - Gallery on Main Street, Saxonburg, PA.
2012 -  North River Gallery, Marshfield, MA.
2011 and 2012 - Reisinkoff Gallery, Boston, MA.
2011 - Gallery 342 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.

transformation, greek art, greek gods, christianity, italian art, byzantine art