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Gabriella D’Italia approaches her current work with an investigatory and demonstrative disposition, blending a creative impetus with her philosophical educational background. In the functional objects produced for her company, The Spring Street Co., and in her work at UMO pursuing an MFA, she explores the created and creative capacity of everyday objects. These capacities are expressed materially through incremental change and elaborate specificity. Her instinct treads so closely to observing and using objects for their intended purpose and in their conventional environment, the challenge becomes to draw them out at all.
Gabriella’s participation in Maine’s art and craft culture ranges from a history in costume design for The Penobscot Theatre (Bangor), to teaching workshops in fiber at Haystack for the Maine Crafts Association or through a grant from the Maine Arts Commission for Mount Desert Island High School. In addition to membership in several juried guilds, she has shown work around the state in selected shows at Courthouse Gallery (Ellsworth), The Center for Maine Contemporary Art: Work of the Hand Shows (Rockport), One Lupine Gallery (Bangor), and the Dan Kany Gallery (Portland), among others.
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