Adriano Farinella

b.1975

I approach painting as a spiritual practice, creating meditative landscape paintings from memory and imagination.These invented landscapes use clouds as protagonists and symbols of impermanence while the land acts as an eternal counterbalance.

Rather than being a recording of a specific place at a particular time of day, the paintings refer to a metaphysical version of 'a place in time’ and are intended to connect the viewer to broad contemplations that simultaneously transcend the temporal world and root into it.

Adriano lives and works in Easton, Pennsylvania. His work is widely collected in private and corporate collections throughout the United States. He has taught drawing, figure drawing, painting, and plein air for over 20 years and now owns and operates StudioWork, where he teaches workshops that balance elemental skill building exercises with intuitive painting practices.

Bachelor of Fine Arts 1993–1998 Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania

Cambridge Street Atelier-Fall 2013 , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

S E L E C T E D E X H I B I T I O N S

2024 Hartley Invitational Exhibition
Salmagundi Club, New York City, New York
2023 Moravian University Faculty Exhibition
Payne Gallery, Moravian University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2018 The Painted Sketch-Solo Exhibition of Plein Air and Studio Sketches
The Kemerer Museum, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2018 Unseasonable Expectations-Art of Weather
NurtureNature Center Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2017 Buyers Market Invitational
Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2017 'For The Time Being' Solo Exhibition
Re:find Gallery on the Art Walk, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2017 'Moving Like Music' Solo Exhibition
to coincide with Gloria Snyder Concert Series
First Presbyterian Church of Allentown Gallery, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2016 Landscapes/Cityscapes The Natural and Manmade -Group Exhibition
Dacia Gallery, New York City, New York
2016 Small Works Exhibition
Elliot Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, California
2015 Plein Air Exhibition Riverside Arts Festival
Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2015 'Equilibria' Solo Exhibition of Recent Paintings
Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2014 Gallery 2908 Winter Group Exhibition,
Gallery 2908 Slatington, Pennsylvania...