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Angela Simione
Contact:
website: angelasimione.blogspot.com/
myspace: myspace.com/angelasimione
representation: Hang Art
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Artist Biography: Growing up in the small town of Redlands, California Angela Simione spent the majority of her upbringing reading, writing, and occasionally drawing in secret. Intending to become a writer, she studied creative writing at Cal Arts during the summer of 1997. It was there that she was first impressed and inspired by the visual arts. After double-majoring in English and Fine Art for three years, Angela focused her study solely on painting. In 2005, she relocated to the Bay Area to finish her BFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The aspects of writing that she most loved (allusion, symbolism, and fragmentation) are still dominant in her painting process. Angela chooses images based their ability to act as metaphors. She is interested in exploring issues of identity; in particular, notions of the self, the other, loss, and gender. Her realism is tempered with prose, and work to provide a window into her memories, emotions, childhood fears, and adult politics. Artist Statement: My approach to image-making is that of keeping a diary. Personal, egotistical, sometimes embarrassing and nostalgic, my practice is fueled by questions about the self. Personal trauma, social convention, loss, and the importance of ritual are the primary themes that I explore and use to inform my study of the construction of identity. My process is itself a metaphor for this construction. Creating images through the layering of stains and of pushing pigments into the fibers of a canvas, I speak of the ideals that have been engrained in me; making a painting in the same manner that I have been made. In this way, every work is one of self-portraiture and analysis. Drawing insight from fashion advertisements, childrenŐs coloring books, antique photographs, and my own memories and fantasies, I build a window through which I can see myself, and my society, in a more intimate and specific way. |
Flowers
approximately 48" x 36"
crocheted yarn
2008
Double-mint
48" x 36"
oil on canvas
2008
Untitled (Sisters 3)
8" x 10"
oil on canvas
2008
Two Angelas
10" x 10"
Oil on canvas 2007
Untitled (Sisters)
12" x 12"
oil on canvas
2007
Spectators
19" x 10"
Mixed Media on Paper
2007
Respect the Cock
2007