The Artist
Artist Statement
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Tim Gianelli makes layered paintings and collages. He works with oil, acrylic, alcohol ink and multi media. His images are bold and clear, but the feelings stay calm. He looks at how pictures pull our attention and how that shapes what we think we see. He uses strong color, clean cuts, and recurring signs like hands, faces, flowers, and chains to ask who we are and who we try to be.
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Tim learns from artists who showed how images can be built and rebuilt. His works pulls in two directions, figure based and abstract. He studies Gerhard Richter for range and blur. He looks to Robert Rauschenberg for mixing images and materials with care. He looks to Mark Bradford for patient layering and the way paper can hold time. He looks to Andy Warhol for repetition and the simple power of a clear image. These lessons help him use beauty as a way in and structure as a way to stay.
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Each work is built in the studio through painting, and layering. Faces can stand in for the self. Hands point, hold, or block. Flowers mark brief moments of light. They invite slow looking, quiet focus, and honest feeling.
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Artist Bio
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Tim Gianelli is a Boston born, self taught artist who works in painting and collage. He began painting when he was young and showed work at the deCordova Museum in Massachusetts at age 10. Tim spent years learning figurative realism, then moved toward a blend of abstraction and story.
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He builds his pieces with painted papers, drawing, and many layers of oil and acrylic. His work speaks about identity, pressure, routine, and change. Faces act as stand ins for the self. Hands suggest help or resistance. Flowers appear as brief and bright pauses.​ He wants the viewer to pause, pay attention, and remember that art can be a simple form of quiet strength.
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His work has been exhibited at Pellas Gallery and other venues, and is held in private collections around the world.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS ​
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2025 "Surrealism Goes to the Beach" - Pellas Gallery, Boston, MA
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2024 "No Borders" - Pellas Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 "Abstraction, Expressionism, and Beyond" - Pellas Gallery, Boston
2022 "ABSTRACTED MEMORIES" - Interiology Design Co., Boston, MA
2021 "Atypical Renaissance" - Pellas Gallery, Boston, MA
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