Angels (Fra Angelico) Collage

Artist Claudia Palmira, a native New Yorker, lives and works in Rome since 2006. Her work looks back at cultural icons and forward to the representations and juxtapositions available through new technologies. The result is a distinctly contemporary oeuvre replete with references to the works of masters of the Roman, Renaissance and Baroque periods, whose marks appear everywhere around her adopted city. The works revisit the visual poetics of the past and encourage a fresh look at iconic landmarks that have paved the path of art history. Adding, taking away, embellishing, redefining – these are part of her creative process. Claudia begins with a blank canvas or screen and continuously places, removes, hides and rediscovers imagery with paper, paint, adhesive – or, on the screen, with virtual painting, opacities and filters. She does not want to simply create a beautiful image, but “intend that image to contain a feeling that transformation has occurred, and as such, can be inspiring, perhaps evoking a sense of the ephemeral.”