Coochie Painting

Antonella Sigismondi, born in Pescara, is an multi-disciplinary artist- painter and glass-metal sculptor, director, performance artist, and actress. At 2 months old her opera-singing parents and sister took her to Hamilton, Canada. She studied Art at OCAD in Toronto from 1987-1991, winning several awards as a painter and sculptor. Active in Toronto, LA and NY, her metal and sculptures and paintings are in many private collections. She has worked with David Bowie, Marilyn Manson,The Cure, Faith Hill, filmmakers Kathy Prosser and Floria Sigismondi and Don Allan. In 2009 Antonella participated in Fashionweek in Toronto where she designed 13 artistic costumes, directed a short film called Coochie Mondi, Then, exhibiting it in 2016, for the first time in Italy at the Museum d 'Arte Moderna V. Colonna (Pescara) with her three new painting collections pop-impressionistic style: "the Woman", "the Spirit " and "Coochie." Here she also added a performance piece using the models to protest in the streets for respect for the Female. Since then she has been focusing on her series called "Tree Portals", photographing trees and reassembling them claiming to have entered the Portal herself.