A History Ignored by Hope M. Ricciardi
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A History Ignored
My ancestry and roots in Armenian history are the catalysts for my current work. My grandfather was born in Adana, Turkey, a Mediterranean city once populated by Armenians and destroyed during the diaspora. A History Ignored includes paintings and sculptures about my Armenian heritage and the history of the Armenian people. I work in oils on canvas, linen and wood panels. Digital image transfers of family members and historic photos are also inserted into some of the work, demonstrating the connections of past and present. This is a continuing series, which will exhibit in Boston for the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in 2015. Provocative images from the art community have historically moved our society forward; now is the time to openly accept Armenian history, including the Genocide, and honor the numerous contributions of Armenian culture.
Hope Ricciardi is a Boston-based painter whose work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Galatea Fine Art and at the Medicine Wheel Gallery, and in group exhibitions at the Resnikoff Gallery (Violence Transformed 2011), Galatea,Kathryn Schultz Gallery (NEPS Show), the SMFA (Inside Out), OKW and GASP galleries and at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in Brooklyn, NY. She has a BFA from Tufts University and also studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Email: hopericciardi@gmail.com
Web: www.hopemricciardi.co
