Artist: Annette Giaco | Location: Pauline, SC
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Artist: Annette Giaco | Location: Pauline, SC
Pauline, SC
Annette Giaco was born in Alexandria, LA, in 1956. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at Louisiana Tech with brief postgraduate study at LSU-New Orleans in Urban Demographics. She studied art in California, Louisiana and Rome, Italy with an emphasis on painting. This path eventually led her into newspaper publishing as Director of Print Quality for Gannett Company where she worked for 30 years. Her publishing career included the use of graphics software such as Photoshop. This tool plays a huge part in the method she uses to distort and prepare images during the planning stages of each painting and drawing.
She concentrates on the eyes and body language and from there creates a narrative for each piece, using distortion and line to convey meaning.
She is the current Marketing Chair for the West Main Artists Co-op and is a member of Tryon Painters & Sculptors. She actively participates in monthly exhibitions at The West Main Artist’s Co-op. Spartanburg Art Museum recently acquired one of her pieces into their permanent collection and chose her as one of the participating artists featured in the Lighten Up Spartanburg public art project. Her "bulb" piece, "Mawu Sun-Light,” is on view on Main and Daniel Morgan. Her work is also on display at SC Artisans Center in Walterboro, SC.
Giaco works as a commissioned portrait artist as time allows.