Anastasia Faiella

Anastasia Faiella works with and against the limits of her media. When does paint resist her gesture and intention? When might words fail to communicate? Through her work as a dancer, Faiella realized that she needed discipline and structure to press against the challenges of the body. Her artistic practice continues this method of rigor and repetition to work beyond what she knows. Faiella's recent body of work is informed by her earlier performance art, as it investigates the role of the body in mark making. Her investigation questions how repetition and extended gestures become legible, and how repletion or the body can interrupt access to words. In these paintings, letters across a canvas invite but refuse reading. Through gestures with translucent and opaque paint, she renders the difficulty of accessing language: the viewer wants to read through, to know or understand, but are instead kept at a distance. 

University of California at Berkeley, Masters in Fine Arts, Studio Arts, 2004
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN., BA Art History, 1989
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, Dance Major, 1984
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA; 1996-1997, 2000-2001
University of California, Berkley, CA; 1994-1995
San Francisco School of Art, San Francisco, CA, 1993-1995

Slate Contemporary, "Black & White" September 2017, Oakland, CA
Gallery 60SIX, "Related Categories", November 2014, San Francisco, CA
Art Explosion Open Studios September & October 2013, San Francisco, CA
Gallery 60SIX, “Mark Making” San Francisco California, June 4th 2011-July 8th 2011
Slate Art "The Color Show", Oakland California December 2009
Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Or, April 2006
"The Future" as part of The International Museum of Women June 2006
On line exhibition entitled "Imagining Ourselves"
Sketch, Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California at Davis, Jan-March, 2006
McHenry County College, Solo Show, Crystal Lake, IL. Sept. 2007
Marking Motion, The Lab, San Francisco, 2005
MFA Exhibition, Compass Points, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum, 2004
Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley Fall First Year MFA Group Show, 2002
Open Studios, Dutch Boy Studios, Oakland, 2002
Open Studios Somar Gallery, 2000,2001
UC Berkeley Student Group Show, Eloise Pritchard Gallery, 1996
Selections From Open Studios, SOMAR Gallery, 1996
San Francisco School of Art-Spring Student Show, 1995