Anna Carina Sinocchi

Anna Carina Sinocchi born: Orange, New Jersey 1970

Anna Carina Sinocchi is a practicing fine artist and lecturer at William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey.

My work integrates two disparate processes. It starts with the photogram, a unique, alternative photographic approach to image making utilizing the agency of light on a photo sensitive substrates, which in my work are paper and muslin. The photogram process is automatic and uncontrollable; thus, its outcome is unforeseeable and unique. This approach to photographic representation produces a silhouetted shape that sets the foundation for painting. The way the photograph is developed, and the transfiguration of the material surface reveals my next step in painting. By opening myself up to the unexpected, my engagement with painting is more passive than the workings of a traditional painter. I paint by orchestrating the nature of what is revealed before me.

Abstract art is an aesthetic activity. The root of my work lie in the influence of the ancient worlds of Mediterranean and Latin culture exploring the metaphysical.

Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1993 William Paterson University
Master of Fine Arts, 2013 William Paterson University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Architecture for Spaces Unknown', Boyd Realty Group, curated by Ezmira Junkala, Richmond, VA

2023 'Architecture for Spaces Unknown', Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ

2021 ‘The Infinite: Arch and Line’, curated by Jessica Bush, Passaic County Arts Center, Hawthorne, NJ

2019-2020 ‘The Infinite: Arch and Line’, The Passaic County Cultural and Heritage Council, Hamilton Club Building, Passaic County Community College, Paterson, NJ

2012-2013 ‘Passages’ Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ

GROUP EXHBITIONS

2017-2018 ‘Queen of Angels: When a Church Dies’, Art and Artifacts, Newark, NJ

2015-16 ‘Invitational’, Noho-M55 Gallery, New York, NY

2013 ‘Artist’s Choice’ (Invitational), Noho-M55 Gallery, New York, NY

2011 ‘Manipulated’, curated by Ariel Shanberg, Castell Gallery, Asheville, NC

2011 ‘Interstice & Emphasis’ curated by Carl E. Hazlewood, Aljira a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ