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Bianca Valencia Criscuolo, raised in the small country town of Easton CT, moved to NY for school and spent her early 20s living in Brooklyn NY attending PARSONS School of Design as an Illustration major with a scholarship from The Beijing Contemporary Arts Foundation for excellence and additional studies in Mandarin Chinese and East Asian art. Her interest in the fine artworld broadened through her time as Curator with the Contemporary Art Modern Project Galleries. Working events like Volta, Hamptons Art Fair and Art Basel New York. Through this She developed a passion for cultivating fellow artists and she went on to have her first solo show at 25 [Beyond the Veil; Exploring the Tensions Between], co-leads her local artist guild, and is an integral member of ‘Call to Gather’ a Manhattan based artist guild cultivating flourishing artists and creating public access art empower all people to return to creative play. She has had the privilege of working on projects with artists/designers such as Makoto Fujimura, Clara Fialho, Guang-Yu Zhang, and Esther Mun.
Upon graduating with a BFA from PARSONS, Her dedication shifted from self exploration to bridging a gap between the divine and the physical. She believes deeply in the pursuit of truth, beauty and hope in the midst of darkness, with an emphasis on a reimagining of the sublime. Her work was further developed as she found transformational vision through her Ambassador work with India based nonprofit Embers International as an Artist Advocate against human trafficking, as well as her instructor training with the (IAM) International Arts Movement; Academy Kintsugi culture care initiative to preserve the art of kintsugi and its philosophy of beauty in brokenness.
Her studio space is currently at The Knowlton in Bridgeport CT, where she enjoys the collaborative creative community of other local artists and traveling nationally to speaking engagements on the Beauty and Importance of Art Beyond the Self and The Innate Healing Power of Creativity.
Vision: truth and dreams.
Bianca Valencia Criscuolo’s artwork cries for a reimagining of the sublime. Nestled in a generation plagued by Nihilistic Ideology and clouded by melancholy and potent apathy, Bianca Valencia’s pieces attempt to depict beauty and hope amidst darkness. The work on initial view seems grim and rather heavy but the longer you look the work whispers of something more. A realm beyond the one you sit in, something organic, natural, and full of the bewildering spirit of life.
Much of her work seems steeped in the voice of surrealism and nonlinear narrative, with a highly concentrated focus on the exploration of dreams, theology, and the ontology of the self.
However other works remain less formed and respond to the aesthetic energy of abstract expressionism with its active movement towards work in which the gesture of the artist’s hand or process is highly evident in the final compositions. Evident in their lament to the sublime, the works explore theological cosmology and the origin act of making. Bianca Valencia Crisucolo believes that artists innately mimic ancient creation stories. The knitting of beauty out of chaos, pain and darkness. The work often avoids directly grounded statements and instead posing questions of purpose, self inquiry, and calling to the viewer. Carving out space out for the viewer to experience the spiritual and perhaps provide a moment of respite by extending an offering of hope.
Through the pursuit of truth and beauty amidst darkness Bianca Valencia Criscuolo reminds us
“it is said that hope is a discipline; Without hope and vision for the future the burden of existence and the darkness of the world is truly unbearable. It is this, hardship and struggle, that we find purpose and grounding in being; it is in these trials that we learn what it is to stand, propelled by the call to something more than the self. “
