GRACE DeGENNARO

Grace DeGennaro is a painter whose work is informed by the study of ancient uses of pattern, symmetry and iconic symbolism in traditional forms such as Tantric drawings, Navajo weavings, and Byzantine mosaics, as well as modern interpretations of these vocabularies, including geometric abstraction, Carl Jung’s collective unconscious, Josef Albers’ color theory, and Robert Lawlor’s sacred geometry. 

Her work as been exhibited nationally at the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; the Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; the Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY and The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.  

DeGennaro is the recipient of grants from the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Maine Arts Commission. She received a BS from Skidmore College and an MFA from Columbia University. Grace DeGennaro lives in Maine.