The Artist
Artist Statement
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Tim Gianelli is creating layered, figure-driven collages that are visually loud, but not emotionally loud. His work blends street material, archival media, and painting to reveal the machinery of attention in a world built to distract. Through bold imagery, clashing fragments, and recurring motifs like hands, faces, flowers, and chains, Gianelli explores the tension between clarity and conformity — between who we are and who we pretend to be. These aren’t paintings made to soothe or sell a story. They’re made to interrupt — using beauty as bait, and dissonance as structure.
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Artist Bio
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Tim Gianelli is a self-taught, Boston-born artist whose work explores identity, pressure, and personal transformation through layered, mixed-media collage.
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Raised in a creative family, Tim began painting early and had his first museum exhibition at age 10 at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. After years of studying figurative realism, his work evolved into a bold fusion of abstraction and narrative, using color, collage, and symbolism to explore what it means to be real in a world full of performance.
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His current body of work investigates the daily rituals of people trying to blend in, stay afloat, and make sense of themselves. Faces often serve as placeholders for the self, while hands suggest guidance or resistance. Flowers appear as brief, beautiful moments. Chains reflect inner or societal limitations. Built from materials collected in cities like New York, Bangkok, and Curaçao, each piece carries a lived-in energy, layered with archival posters, spray paint, oil, and acrylic.
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Rather than shout or shock, Tim’s work invites quiet clarity — a visual conversation about escape, presence, and the possibility of change. He sees art not as a performance, but as a form of subtle resistance: a way to remember who we really are.
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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 ​
2024 No Borders - Pellas Gallery, Boston USA
2023 Abstraction, Expressionism, and Beyond - Pellas Gallery, Boston USA ​
2022 ABSTRACTED MEMORIES - Interiology Design Co., Boston USA
2022 Artists Exhibition - Nearby Gallery, Boston USA 2021 Atypical Renaissance - Pellas Gallery, Boston USA
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