Alyssa Fanning

Artist Statement:

My paintings depict euphoric spaces filled with joyful color and clear light. Clouds, trees, and spheres fill the surfaces. Trees appear as solid forms on terrestrial mounds, as transparencies, and inside globes and clouds. Are they flying away? Are we dreaming them?

After a trip to Rome and Florence last summer, I was inspired to develop an expanded language of forms. Captivated by the sight of cypress trees and umbrella pines under the cerulean blue sky above Palatine Hill and the Villa Borghese Gardens in Rome, I began incorporating the distinctive tree species into compositions. A sense of structured order entered the work along with an illusionistic space and atmospheric perspective, as distant hills and brush became cloaked in muted turquoise. Mark-making I developed in earlier work now dances through the paintings decorating foliage and sky.

Alyssa lives and works in Northern NJ.