Claudia Palmira

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.”

B.A. from Mount Holyoke College

2019 Stamford Innovation Gallery, Stamford, CT
2018 “The Divine and Inspirational”. Chilton & Chadwick Gallery, Old Greenwich, CT.
2018 Group Show. Chilton & Chadwick Gallery, Old Greenwich, CT.
2018 Solo exhibit. Margutta Home. Opening Night Benefit sponsored by Rotary Club Rome International.
2018 Solo exhibit. U.S. Embassy Trimission Gallery, Rome.
2018 Group Show. Margutta Home, Rome.
2017 Solo exhibit. Union League Club Gallery, New York, NY.
2016 Solo exhibit. Rome, Italy.
2014 Group show. St Stephen’s Gallery. Rome, Italy.
2013 Group show. Exed Gallery. Rome, Italy.