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  Adele Travisano Bio Over the years her work has been exhibited in many one-woman, juried and group shows, notably: The William Benton Museum, Storrs, Ct.; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; Atlantic Monthly Gallery, Boston; Boston City Hall, invitational; Silvermine Guild (award); Secrest Gallery, Wellfleet; Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center; Provincetown Art Association (member); and most recently at Acme Fine Art, Newbury St., Boston. Future exhibits include Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, July 2005, and The Hopper House, Nyack, NY, Fall 2005. Publications include a Boston Globe Magazine cover; collections include Graham Gund; commissions include the Truro garden of Jim Bennette and David Cowan of Acme Fine Art. Adele has taught drawing and painting to people of all ages, from preschool to adult, in New York City; Storrs, Ct. (University of Connecticut); Provincetown, Mass., and the Boston area (including Brockton Art Center/Fuller Memorial). During the course of her career, Adele has maintained studios in: Manhattan’s Soho; Eddie Euler’s studios in Provincetown; Vernon Street Studios, Somerville, Mass.; and currently in what was the summer kitchen of her family’s 19th century Medford farmhouse. “Much in keeping with the Hans Hofmann/George McNeil approach to painting, I do start out working from life and then, before long, the work takes on a life of its own. My unruly garden gives me unlimited inspiration (in return for unconditional love). With my canvas propped up on two wooden sawhorses, I work right in the garden, securing what Bonnard called ‘the primary conception.’ Then, relying largely on intuition, I let myself run along with the paint and the process, feeling into the life energy of the subject. Thus, in resolving the painting, the subject actually becomes the paint, and the painting is essentially about the transformation of matter.” Adele is currently working on a series of paintings inspired by the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Statement Thus, although my work is representational, it explores the plasticity of paint; the push pull of space; the defining of form, space and light by color; and the movement and rhythm of color throughout. I am unabashedly in love with paint and the painterly. All of my paintings are really portraits: gardens, vegetables, fruits, seashells, and rocks. These are subjects that want to be painted, not simply represented in oils on a canvas, but made again in such a way that shows, along with their outward appearance, the life that is in them. Therefore my painting process is about the transformation of life and energy into paint. Adele Travisano
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