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Artist Statement:
When I create my art I try to
incorporate a number of things
one being sexuality and
eroticism, secondly based on
whichever personal experience
or mental thoughts I may have
I do try to gear the piece as
my personal visual diary and
then third I like to use
abstract and surreal back
drops to bring the piece
together. The human form is a
beautiful and unique art in
itself, so I find every
contour to be exciting and
challenging to paint. I do
find that the thing us humans
can relate to the most is
other human experiences, which
gives us a connection to
everything and other human
emotion. I love to work with
surreal and abstract pieces,
they are in themselves
theraputic and bring a peace
to the artwork.
-Mel Fiorentino
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Artist Exhibitions:
1999. Fine Arts For Ocala.
Ocala, FL
2000. Paddock Mall Student Art
Show. Ocala, FL
2000. Appleton Museum of Art.
Ocala, FL
2000. Fine Arts for Ocala.
Ocala, FL
2001. Paddock Mall Student Art
Show. Ocala, FL
2002. The CFCC Webber Center
Student Art Exhibition. Ocala,
FL
2002. Fine Arts ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Commissions:
2003. Central Florida
Community College, Ocala, FL,
USA (Mural)
2003. TJ, Ocala, FL. USA
(Portrait, pencil)
2004. Jim Wright, Ocala, FL,
USA (Portrait, painting)
2005. Morgante, Ocala, FL, USA
(Portrait)
2005. Casey Kurchoft, Ocala,
FL, USA (Portrait, pencil)
2006. Andrew Rizzo, Ocala, FL,
USA (Original tattoo design)
2007. Michael Burton, ...
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Melissa Fiorentino Biography:
| Biographical information for Melissa Fiorentino can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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28
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Committed
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
Life |
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| Education |
Self Taught |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Art, Music, Drums, Guitar |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Acrylic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Art Deco - (1920 - 1935)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Tie- Piet Mondrian & Tamara de Lempicka
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| Favorite Work of Art |
ALways loved the "Pieta"
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Michelangelo's "Pieta", it is what made me become serious about being an artst and never giving up any piece I attempted. Seeing the work someone can do made me realize "Hey, I can do that too" and I do it and keep learning how to improve my styles of painting. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I felt I was born a artist, always drawing and doing something creative. When I got older, painting called me, I answered and now it is a way of life for me. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Melissa Fiorentino is an acrylic painter who was born in New York in 1983. Melissa paints and learns by studying her influences that range from Michelangelo to Piet Mondrian. A variety of color schemes, intense and sometimes risky subject matter help Fiorentino’s work to be shocking and different. She tends to have a unique style bringing a representational piece, abstract and a portrait all into one. It is a way to allow a way for there to be a reality and dream or nightmare enclosed onto one image.
Melissa Fiorentino is a artist who creates paintings that show a different side of life, the side where we are learning, discovering and living through the feeling that moves through our veins during the process, that rush that we feel. Her paintings suggest a reality stringing a type of personality extension of the subject in the painting by bringing together a surreal and abstract idea of what a person feels while they are experiencing life.
Challenge and problem solving skills are involved in Fiorentino’s work and she uses these things to track her growth as an artist and as a person. She had her work in the Appleton Museum of Art when she was only 16 years old and from that moment on started working and getting herself into any art shows that she could get into that was at her disposal. Fine Arts for Ocala started to bring her many awards each year, than getting awards such as the Award of Merit in 2002 and the Award of Distinction in 2003 has fueled her aspirations. Youngest artist to have her own booth and display her own work at the age of 19 in 2003 for Fine Arts For Ocala, now she is working on getting herself into any art festivals and galleries possible. Fiorentino plans to start a new idea of painting and work towards opening her own gallery and studio all in one, so that people may see her work as she progresses towards her changing styles. Actively working in her studio in Ocala, FL, she is working towards earning a name for herself and painting up a huge portfolio worth of paintings that express her ideas and discoveries as an artist and person.
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