GALLERY5X7 welcomes Graciana Piaggio to our community of artists and collectors! We are excited to feature a number of Graciana‘s beautiful botanical prints created using several alternative process techniques for purchase. These handcrafted prints are wonderful additions to our galleries.
Artist Bio
Graciana’s work focuses on the idea of transformation through time. Her photography tries to capture the constant changes occurring to objects and living things but remain unnoticed to the naked eye. The effect that chance has during the artistic process (in the form of small accidents which are out of her control) is also very important in her work.
Graciana’s beginnings in art were as a painter and later she turned to photography. She has experimented with several alternative processes including Tricolor Gum Bichromate, Cyanotype, Ziatype, Lumens, Chlorophyll Prints, among others. By specializing in gum bichromate printing (a technique she learned studying with Diana Bloomfield), she has found the possibility to express herself pictorially.
Essential to her creative process is the possibility to be able to work with her hands and, at the same time, create unrepeatable copies, influencing the printing process through the choice of different types of papers, pigments, and the color palette she chooses.
Graciana believes that gum bichromate is maybe the alternative processes where more evidence of the artist’s traces can be discovered, by way of his or her brushstroke and gestures, as the process gives the artist a unique opportunity to work by adding layer after layer to the print and to slowly build the image, by letting it grow over time and with patience.
Her work has been exhibited in her home country Argentina, in Europe and in the United States.
We welcome Graciana to our community of artists and collectors.
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“Anemone Burgundy” © Graciana Piaggio.
Approx. 9×12“ (23x30cm) handcrafted alternative process photograph (tri-color gum bichromate over cyanotype) on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag. Signed original print offered by GALLERY5X7.
All prints on the GALLERY5X7 site are original, handcrafted, alternative process photographs available for purchase.
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Artists have full control over pricing of their work on GALLERY5X7 and are free to negotiate all terms directly with potential customers. Sales inquiries are passed directly to the represented artist and all transactions (pricing negotiations, purchase arrangements, shipping of prints, etc.) are conducted by the artists and purchaser directly.
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“Flowers In Scarlet Vase” © Graciana Piaggio.
Approx. 9×12“ (23x30cm) handcrafted alternative process photograph (eight-color gum bichromate over cyanotype) on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag. Signed original print offered by GALLERY5X7.
About GALLERY5X7
GALLERY5X7 promotes the work of represented artists to facilitate direct connections between artists and potential collectors/buyers. We are breaking the traditional art gallery sales model; we do not directly sell prints or take a sales commission as do other galleries, instead we facilitate sales directly between the artist and collector and rely on the financial support of the community we serve to place a value on our services. We trust our community will reward us if we provide a valued service.
GALLERY5X7 facilitates direct connections between artists and collectors as we believe this approach establishes a personal connection and trust that can lead to long-term relationships – relationships that we intend to foster, not get between. We hope you will find our “get the gallery out of the way” approach refreshing!
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