The Artist

Artist Statement

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Timothy Gianelli paints imagined landscapes that stage a tension between invitation and warning. Paths, openings, and obstructed passages lead the viewer toward places that feel magnetic, distant, and not entirely meant to be entered.

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Working in oil on canvas, he constructs psychological terrains that move between memory, invention, and dream. Familiar natural forms become slightly altered or intensified, turning the landscape into a threshold charged with beauty, unease, and temptation.

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His work explores the human pull toward places that are hidden, forbidden, or just beyond reach.

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Artist Bio

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Timothy Gianelli is a Boston born, self taught painter working in oil on canvas. His paintings explore imagined landscapes marked by tension, distance, and psychological pull.

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He exhibited work at the deCordova Museum in Massachusetts at age ten. His work has since been shown in galleries including Pellas Gallery and is held in private collections internationally. Gianelli lives and works in Cambridge, MA.

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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 

 

2021 "Atypical Renaissance" - Pellas Gallery, Boston, MA

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