An adaptive creative process is fundamental to Gianni’s artistic practice. Works often begin with a singular image, texture, feeling or text and take shape naturally by way of channeling the hand/eye/mind that contains a sacred knowledge and un/common sense.  Favoring found materials, steeped in history and meaning allow for chance encounters, shifts of direction, and […]

Memorable highlights in his life include, “experiencing” his idol Jimi Hendrix at the Boston Garden in ‘68.  Getting knocked on his ass by Paul Newman during the hockey auditions for Slapshot in ’76 and very nearly killing a young Quentin Tarantino, during a scene from Sam Shepard’s True West, while a member of Allen Garfield’s […]