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"As a child, MILISA GALAZZI learned to sew from her paternal grandmother who dispensed advice like, “Good girls should always be sewing” and “A lady always mends and fixes.” Galazzi found Grammy’s comments “annoying,” but appreciated learning the skills. Now she makes “lace” that originates as a drawing whose line she stitches by hand. (Grammy would be proud!) After cutting away the negative space of the drawing, Galazzi dips each hand-stitched sheet into a vat of warm wax, which stiffens and transparentizes the paper, and then installs it, with other similarly cut and waxed sheets, into a layered relief sculpture whose shadows are as integral to the work as the cut paper itself. In this installation, her Super String Theory not only dialogs with its own shadows but with the twists and curves of Brian Alterio’s Garlic Scapes, near which it is placed."
~ Joanne Mattera, curator of A Legacy of Making, Connecticut College and Regis College Art Galleries
Milisa Galazzi makes “lace” that originates as a drawing whose line she stitches by hand. After cutting away the negative space, Galazzi dips each handstitched sheet into a vat of warm wax and then installs it, with other similarly cut and waxed sheets, into a layered relief sculpture whose shadows are as integral to the work as the stitching itself. In working with her materials, Galazzi likens the process to cranking out broad, flat sheets of pasta dough as she did as a child (and still does for holiday meals)."
~ Joanne Mattera, curator of The Art of Italianita, an online exhibition of nearly 100 contemporary artists who mine their Italian heritage in their artwork. Statement posted on Facebook, January 11, 2022 featuring the artist, DAY 11 of ITALIANITA: Milisa Galazzi. For more information go HERE.
"Here is something in Rhode Island for followers of Milisa Galazzi's incredible work with paper, thread, graphite and encaustic. Misa weaves her story with radical, rich honesty and quite elegantly tells the viewer what a simple line is really all about. This work slays us; hope you will get a chance to see and enjoy, too!"
~ Susan Danton, Owner, Miller White Fine Art, in an online post about THICKET, a three person exhibition at Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI January, 2020
"Milisa Galazzi’s drawings are cognitive maps; drawing is a direct route from brain to hand. Her lyrical lines inhabit a space between the epistemological and the phenomenological: between knowledge creation/categorization and perception/feeling. Traveling two tracks simultaneously, lines overlap and converge in a looping syntax. This private grammar reflects her process of discovering and understanding the world through the making of a mark, a line, a track, a stroke."
~ Patricia Miranda, NYC Art Critic/Artist, statement LINE AS LANGUAGE a solo exhibition, at Bentley University, 2019
"In seeking to visualize the dynamics of human relationships through her art, Milisa Galazzi has found string theory to be the perfect metaphor - hence the name of her series of hanging sculptural works...After all, quantum physics is really, at its core, about the nature of physical connections....As her work has morphed over the last 30-plus years, Galazzi may utilize a variety of different mediums - she recently began pursuing a series of asemic line drawings, i.e. non-semantic gestures-but everything always comes back to human connection."
~ Haley Cote, Assistant Editor, Cape Cod Life Publications, Cape Cod Art Annual 2018
"...The light drawings of Milisa Galazzi are meditations on presence and absence. The drawings appear as hovering filigree of cast shadows emanating from elegant cut-paper constructions hung in spacious, overlapping planes. Positive and negative space undulate back and forth as the eye synthesizes the various layers into a unified whole. Her series, String Theory, borrows from the quantum physics theoretical framework in which elemental particles are conceptualized as 'strings' reaching across the space/time continuum..."
~ Miles Conrad, in his article "The Tactile World" in Surface Design Magazine dedicated to Wax & Fiber, Winter 2015/2016
"...Although you won't see a view of Cape Cod in Milisa Galazzi's work, this place informs her art, along with a fascination with human relationships..."
~ Deborah Forman, "Contemporary Cape Cod Artists on Abstraction" Schiffer Publishing 2015
"You provided me with one of the most rewarding studio visits I've ever had. You are a consummate professional, in every possible way, and an absolutely delightful human being. Your work is stunning, and I am so moved by your creative process and your ability to express your originality. I am truly honored to show such meaningful, powerful, important work. Thank you so much for this opportunity!"
~ Susan Danton, Owner, Miller White Fine Art, in a thank you email after her first studio visit, May 21, 2015
"Creating webs of cut paper that produce "a visible dance of light" when suspended in layers slightly away from the wall, Milisa Galazzi reminds us that structure is not just an armature for mass. In her String Theory series, Galazzi draws with hand stitching on paper, then cuts the paper along the lines of the stitching and dips the resulting lattice into beeswax. Because wax transparentizes the paper as well as stiffens it, light hitting the structure appears to illuminate it internally. At the same time, because the illuminated web has physicality, the layers of paper cast multiple shadows. Galazzi has brilliantly created object, image and silhouette as a kind of dimensional lace.
~ Joanne Mattera, in her introduction in the catalogue of Organic to Geometric: Investigations in Structure and Surface, exhibition at Heftler Gallery, Endicott College, January 19-March 20, 2015
"Galazzi's gestures are punti in aria, though materially they are stitches on paper, which has been cut to follow the trail of the thread. Immersed in wax, the transparentized paper is hung away from the wall and casts vibrating shadows as it wafts gently."
~ Joanne Mattera, in her introduction in the catalogue of Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, May 18-June 23, 2013
"Milisa Galazzi's Waggle Dance Three is a looping meditation on bee behavior, decoding the material story."
~ David Raymond, in his review in Art New England, July/ August, 2013 of The Elephant in the Room exhibition at Laconia Gallery, Boston, Mass, May 30-June 30, 2013
"Milisa Galazzi works with paper by removing it. The thin, flowing lines of her work, strengthened by wax, draw the viewer's attention to the negative space, the shadows and their delicate stitching that make up theses floating drawings."
~ Michelle Belto, in her comments section of the Gallery of Artists portion of her book, Wax and Paper Workshop:Techniques for Combining Encaustic Paint and Handmade Paper, North Light Books, Cincinnati, Ohio 2012
"Some extraordinary work by Milisa Galazzi ... is on view at ERNDEN Gallery..."
~ Rebecca M. Alvin in her article, Wax Works, in Provincetown Magazine Vol.35 Issue #7 May 31-June 6, 2012
"...This catalog of the exhibition would not be a reality today if it were not for the vision of Milisa Galazzi, one of the contributing artists, who approached me with the idea of producing the catalogue, and who spent many hours managing the sales and marketing of this book - thank you, Milisa..[your] idea to produce a catalogue brought together organically a small working committee, which accomplished our goal within a very short time."
~ Supria Karmarkar, in her Acknowledgements section of the catalogue for The Wax Book: Altered, Repurposed, Remade exhibition at Gallery X, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, Mass. June, 2012
ON LINE REVIEWS: Click each line to follow link.
Review in Cape Cod Life: Artist Profile 2018
Review of exhibition, 'CONNECTIONS' in the Fall River Herald, August 30, 2018
Review of exhibition, "Pollination: Beyond the Garden" by curator, Gregory Wright, November 3, 2011
Review of opening of Pollination exhibition by contributing artist, Nancy Natale, November 7, 2011
Review of Milisa Galazzi, Tactile Expressions Exhibition, by Gregory Wright Blog, April 20, 2011
Review of Artist Milisa Galazzi, by Be Sweet Blog Waggle Dancing Blog, April 13, 2011
Review of Milisa Galazzi: thread/text/time, Review by Nancy Natale, Art in the Sudio Blog, March 15, 2010
Review of Lamont Gallery Exhibition in "The Wire," January 2009
Studio Tour Article by Milisa Galazzi, in ArtCalendar Magazine, Sept/Oct 2007 Issue
INTERVIEWS & BLOG INVITATIONALS: Click each line to follow link.
Tamar Zinn Blog, Why I Draw: Artists and Their Sketchbooks, May 27, 2020
Joanne Matter Art Blog, Art in the Time of Pandemic, Part 2 (of 3), May 11, 2020
R&F Handmade Paints Artist of the Month; Q&A with Milisa Galazzi & Gallery Director Laura Moriarty, September 1-30, 2012
Lynette Haggard Art Blog; Milisa Galazzi: Artist Interview - PART 1 on May 16, 2011 and PART 2 on May 24, 2011
Nancy Natale Art in the Studio Blog; The Questionaire: Milisa Galazzi, July 20, 2010
PRINT REVIEWS
"As a child, MILISA GALAZZI learned to sew from her paternal grandmother who dispensed advice like, “Good girls should always be sewing” and “A lady always mends and fixes.” Galazzi found Grammy’s comments “annoying,” but appreciated learning the skills. Now she makes “lace” that originates as a drawing whose line she stitches by hand. (Grammy would be proud!) After cutting away the negative space of the drawing, Galazzi dips each hand-stitched sheet into a vat of warm wax, which stiffens and transparentizes the paper, and then installs it, with other similarly cut and waxed sheets, into a layered relief sculpture whose shadows are as integral to the work as the cut paper itself. In this installation, her Super String Theory not only dialogs with its own shadows but with the twists and curves of Brian Alterio’s Garlic Scapes, near which it is placed."
~ Joanne Mattera, curator of A Legacy of Making, Connecticut College and Regis College Art Galleries
Milisa Galazzi makes “lace” that originates as a drawing whose line she stitches by hand. After cutting away the negative space, Galazzi dips each handstitched sheet into a vat of warm wax and then installs it, with other similarly cut and waxed sheets, into a layered relief sculpture whose shadows are as integral to the work as the stitching itself. In working with her materials, Galazzi likens the process to cranking out broad, flat sheets of pasta dough as she did as a child (and still does for holiday meals)."
~ Joanne Mattera, curator of The Art of Italianita, an online exhibition of nearly 100 contemporary artists who mine their Italian heritage in their artwork. Statement posted on Facebook, January 11, 2022 featuring the artist, DAY 11 of ITALIANITA: Milisa Galazzi. For more information go HERE.
"Here is something in Rhode Island for followers of Milisa Galazzi's incredible work with paper, thread, graphite and encaustic. Misa weaves her story with radical, rich honesty and quite elegantly tells the viewer what a simple line is really all about. This work slays us; hope you will get a chance to see and enjoy, too!"
~ Susan Danton, Owner, Miller White Fine Art, in an online post about THICKET, a three person exhibition at Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI January, 2020
"Milisa Galazzi’s drawings are cognitive maps; drawing is a direct route from brain to hand. Her lyrical lines inhabit a space between the epistemological and the phenomenological: between knowledge creation/categorization and perception/feeling. Traveling two tracks simultaneously, lines overlap and converge in a looping syntax. This private grammar reflects her process of discovering and understanding the world through the making of a mark, a line, a track, a stroke."
~ Patricia Miranda, NYC Art Critic/Artist, statement LINE AS LANGUAGE a solo exhibition, at Bentley University, 2019
"In seeking to visualize the dynamics of human relationships through her art, Milisa Galazzi has found string theory to be the perfect metaphor - hence the name of her series of hanging sculptural works...After all, quantum physics is really, at its core, about the nature of physical connections....As her work has morphed over the last 30-plus years, Galazzi may utilize a variety of different mediums - she recently began pursuing a series of asemic line drawings, i.e. non-semantic gestures-but everything always comes back to human connection."
~ Haley Cote, Assistant Editor, Cape Cod Life Publications, Cape Cod Art Annual 2018
"...The light drawings of Milisa Galazzi are meditations on presence and absence. The drawings appear as hovering filigree of cast shadows emanating from elegant cut-paper constructions hung in spacious, overlapping planes. Positive and negative space undulate back and forth as the eye synthesizes the various layers into a unified whole. Her series, String Theory, borrows from the quantum physics theoretical framework in which elemental particles are conceptualized as 'strings' reaching across the space/time continuum..."
~ Miles Conrad, in his article "The Tactile World" in Surface Design Magazine dedicated to Wax & Fiber, Winter 2015/2016
"...Although you won't see a view of Cape Cod in Milisa Galazzi's work, this place informs her art, along with a fascination with human relationships..."
~ Deborah Forman, "Contemporary Cape Cod Artists on Abstraction" Schiffer Publishing 2015
"You provided me with one of the most rewarding studio visits I've ever had. You are a consummate professional, in every possible way, and an absolutely delightful human being. Your work is stunning, and I am so moved by your creative process and your ability to express your originality. I am truly honored to show such meaningful, powerful, important work. Thank you so much for this opportunity!"
~ Susan Danton, Owner, Miller White Fine Art, in a thank you email after her first studio visit, May 21, 2015
"Creating webs of cut paper that produce "a visible dance of light" when suspended in layers slightly away from the wall, Milisa Galazzi reminds us that structure is not just an armature for mass. In her String Theory series, Galazzi draws with hand stitching on paper, then cuts the paper along the lines of the stitching and dips the resulting lattice into beeswax. Because wax transparentizes the paper as well as stiffens it, light hitting the structure appears to illuminate it internally. At the same time, because the illuminated web has physicality, the layers of paper cast multiple shadows. Galazzi has brilliantly created object, image and silhouette as a kind of dimensional lace.
~ Joanne Mattera, in her introduction in the catalogue of Organic to Geometric: Investigations in Structure and Surface, exhibition at Heftler Gallery, Endicott College, January 19-March 20, 2015
"Galazzi's gestures are punti in aria, though materially they are stitches on paper, which has been cut to follow the trail of the thread. Immersed in wax, the transparentized paper is hung away from the wall and casts vibrating shadows as it wafts gently."
~ Joanne Mattera, in her introduction in the catalogue of Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, May 18-June 23, 2013
"Milisa Galazzi's Waggle Dance Three is a looping meditation on bee behavior, decoding the material story."
~ David Raymond, in his review in Art New England, July/ August, 2013 of The Elephant in the Room exhibition at Laconia Gallery, Boston, Mass, May 30-June 30, 2013
"Milisa Galazzi works with paper by removing it. The thin, flowing lines of her work, strengthened by wax, draw the viewer's attention to the negative space, the shadows and their delicate stitching that make up theses floating drawings."
~ Michelle Belto, in her comments section of the Gallery of Artists portion of her book, Wax and Paper Workshop:Techniques for Combining Encaustic Paint and Handmade Paper, North Light Books, Cincinnati, Ohio 2012
"Some extraordinary work by Milisa Galazzi ... is on view at ERNDEN Gallery..."
~ Rebecca M. Alvin in her article, Wax Works, in Provincetown Magazine Vol.35 Issue #7 May 31-June 6, 2012
"...This catalog of the exhibition would not be a reality today if it were not for the vision of Milisa Galazzi, one of the contributing artists, who approached me with the idea of producing the catalogue, and who spent many hours managing the sales and marketing of this book - thank you, Milisa..[your] idea to produce a catalogue brought together organically a small working committee, which accomplished our goal within a very short time."
~ Supria Karmarkar, in her Acknowledgements section of the catalogue for The Wax Book: Altered, Repurposed, Remade exhibition at Gallery X, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, Mass. June, 2012
ON LINE REVIEWS: Click each line to follow link.
Review in Cape Cod Life: Artist Profile 2018
Review of exhibition, 'CONNECTIONS' in the Fall River Herald, August 30, 2018
Review of exhibition, "Pollination: Beyond the Garden" by curator, Gregory Wright, November 3, 2011
Review of opening of Pollination exhibition by contributing artist, Nancy Natale, November 7, 2011
Review of Milisa Galazzi, Tactile Expressions Exhibition, by Gregory Wright Blog, April 20, 2011
Review of Artist Milisa Galazzi, by Be Sweet Blog Waggle Dancing Blog, April 13, 2011
Review of Milisa Galazzi: thread/text/time, Review by Nancy Natale, Art in the Sudio Blog, March 15, 2010
Review of Lamont Gallery Exhibition in "The Wire," January 2009
Studio Tour Article by Milisa Galazzi, in ArtCalendar Magazine, Sept/Oct 2007 Issue
INTERVIEWS & BLOG INVITATIONALS: Click each line to follow link.
Tamar Zinn Blog, Why I Draw: Artists and Their Sketchbooks, May 27, 2020
Joanne Matter Art Blog, Art in the Time of Pandemic, Part 2 (of 3), May 11, 2020
R&F Handmade Paints Artist of the Month; Q&A with Milisa Galazzi & Gallery Director Laura Moriarty, September 1-30, 2012
Lynette Haggard Art Blog; Milisa Galazzi: Artist Interview - PART 1 on May 16, 2011 and PART 2 on May 24, 2011
Nancy Natale Art in the Studio Blog; The Questionaire: Milisa Galazzi, July 20, 2010