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J. DAMIANI GALLERY
437 Warren Street
828-5490
jdamiani@taconic.net
http://www.jdamianigallery.com/
Th-Sun, 11-5:30
Paintings, Inks, & Photographs by J. Damiani

About the Gallery:
J. Damiani Gallery began as Knapp Hollow Gallery in Hillsdale, NY, over 10 years ago. In 2004,  J. Damiani Gallery opened at 437 B Warren Street. In 2006, the gallery moved next door to 437 A, offering the artist more wall space.

Although the work is exclusive to one artist, there have been more than a dozen artist receptions featuring new work, good food, fine wine, and the house band.

About the Artist:
Joan Damiani was born in the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York. She is first generation American with parents originating from Agrigento Sicily. Growing up in an Italian neighborhood with a bilingual family, she developed a profound curiosity for the faraway island that her parents called their birthplace. Joan's infatuation and exploration of Italy, it's language and it's culture, began in those early years and carries on to the present.

After graduation from New York University in 1965, Joan relocated to Hillsdale, New York and was employed by a local school district. In 1996 she retired from her postition as school administrator to devote herself entirely to art - not only creating and exhibiting her work but also continuing her study of art. Her personal history came together in 2002 when she visited the birthplaces of her parents in Sicily. Her art, on the other hand is a never ending journey.

" I am stirred by the sensation of life and the moment. Not only human life, but any element caught in the cross hairs of light and shadow. I have been influenced by the Italian painters known a 'I Macchiaioli', a small group of artists who worked in Tuscany in the mid 19th century. They truly painted a moment. Their paintings, some executed on cigar box lids, capture the color of the day and the purity of the moment. My images are based on finding this moment in our time, a simple moment. A moment that perhaps the viewer experienced also, but simply forgot to remember."    J. Damiani

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