Gianna Tesone

Gianna Tesone is a contemporary abstract painter and multimedia artist currently based between New York City and Dallas. She holds a BFA, specializing in painting, creative theory and art history from Point Loma Nazarene University and mentorship of internationally acclaimed artist Ty Nathan Clark. She has exhibited in museums, galleries, and neo-gallery settings of interdisciplinary fields in the United States and Canada and has participated in international artist residencies. She actively works in collaborative settings alongside other artists, musicians, designers and entrepreneurs across the country and is actively pursuing research and educational initiatives to strengthen advocacy for the arts with the aim to expand connections across the United States and internationally in 2025.

Gianna Tesone’s large-scale color-forward and gestural work explores the body as both a vessel and archive — holding emotion, memory and information. Working in an array of painterly techniques with viscerally sculptural components, she takes a “Both/And” approach that harmonizes tension between physicality and perception, showing the visceral nature of the interconnectedness of the body and psyche. With natural design and scientific disciplines informing the process, the work speaks of these complexities through orchestrated color, an interplay of juxtaposing materials and an instinct-driven use of methods.