La Chiesa Painting

I am a visual artist / painter who has lived in Manhattan most of my life. I have been painting since I was 15 and have always found the process of art creation to be an intuitive experience directly and deeply linked to my emotions. Although receiving a BFA, and Masters degrees, the greatest source of knowledge came from developing a sense of self and learning from the lessons of living. It is my intent to draw from my personal experiences and viscerally translate that into powerful work. The mission of my work is to create art objects with a spirit of excitement extracted from real life travel, observing the human condition and surviving urban existence. I will present these objects in an entertaining context often impressionistic and mostly abstract. My paintings are intuitive responses to the innumerable vitalities that shape my life—emotions that translate into color, visual memories of my past into forms and color relationships found in landscapes, and intimate accounts from my past. The work process is one of constant experimentation and change— building layers of color, form, and image on the canvas. They reveal what Italians call the underlying pentimento. My paintings are not planned, they are discovered, a progression that is exciting, fresh, and invigorating.