John Gonnella

John Gonnella's rich and luscious acrylics evoke a sense of the familiar.
His large panels seamlessly integrate the look of vintage advertising art with a contemporary vision through the use of bold colors and slick strokes. For this series, Gonnella chooses iconic imagery used in advertising dating back to the 1930s.
The body of the work tends to skew more female in viewing that sense of maternal and familial contentment. Gonnella's professional experience in the advertising industry as an art and creative director along with his abstract personality, have given way to create a juxtaposition of old, comfortable, conforming meets bold, illusive and the unspoken as witnessed in the "Little Dominatrix".
John Gonnella is a working artist living and working in the South End of Boston.