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John Collette Fine Art
Dean Gioia |
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About Dean Gioia For some thirty hears, Dean Gioia has trekked through the back roads, camps and pine woods of North Florida and South Georgia, and more recently the mountains of North Carolina, and painted what he saw there. He has worked among the fishermen and recorded on canvas the moments of their lives. He has painted ancient weathered bars and country stores. He has marked the changing light and set down the passing of the seasons. But Gioia's work is more than reporting. It is a dense overlay of meaning, content, and technique. Dean explores the timelessness of a moment and questions the nature of reality. His painting is a spiritual quest for deeper understanding and a challenge to viewers to bring their own reality to the quest. Dean lives in Tallahassee and is well known in that region for his ethereal landscapes and nocturnes. He has exhibited widely in the Southeast in a career that spans three decades. Dean holds a B.F.A. from Florida State and is a Florida Fellowship recipient. His work is in over a thousand public and private collections, including the Florida Museum of Natural History, IBM, Barnett Bank, FSU, and the city of Tallahassee. |
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