Artist Bio
Originally from Holland, NY, Gina is an Alfred Based Painting and Sculpture Artist. Currently in the process of completing a BFA at Alfred University in the Spring of 2025. She is an exhibiting artist for the 2025 Best of SUNY annual show in Albany, NY. Additionally, Gina has been working in galleries for the past three years, interning at Alfred University and in the Adirondack region.
Gina is heavily inspired by the Western New York area, growing up on sixteen acres of land aided in connection to landscape. She explores the relation between painting and sculpture dealing with constructed landscape, process painting, and alternative methods to painting surfaces. Handmade canvases are essential, however sculpture has really opened up the possibilities for how a painting exists.
While at University, Gina frequents the National Casting Center Foundry and has been working with bronze and aluminum castings. Developing a language that goes between her landscape paintings and tree sculptures; she blends her family ties to fabrication and her attraction to layering, repetition, and color. Painting has always been the avenue to navigate life. Using resources available through the vibrant art facilities has been foundational to developing an artistic practice tailored to Gina’s interests.
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Born in 2003, Holland, NY
Lives and works in Alfred, NY
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Expected Graduation - May 2025
Alfred University, Alfred, NY - School of Art and Design (S.O.A.D.)
Minor in Art History
GPA - 3.8
Solo Exhibitions
2024 What Lies Within, Robert C. Turner Gallery Catwalk, Alfred, NY
Group Exhibitions
2025 Fiber Open Call, Robert C. Turner Gallery, Alfred, NY
2024-2025 Best of SUNY, SUNY Student Art Exhibition at H. Carl McCall Building, Albany, NY
2024 Our Point of View; A Staff and Intern Show, View Arts Center, Old Forge, NY
2022 Turner Intern Show, Robert C. Turner Gallery, Alfred, NY
Foundations Showing, Cohen Gallery, Alfred, NY
Performance Work
2025 Starry Starry Stacks, Iron Casting Team with Coral Lambert, Bethlehem, PA
guttural-pneuma, AU Dance Theater choreographed by Ella Genovese, Alfred, NY
Another way reveals itself, AU Dance Theater choreographed by Remi Harris and Mark Schmidt, Alfred, NY
2024 Alfred’s Ring of Fire, Iron Casting Team with Coral Lambert, Alfred, NY
IAMVERYNICEIAMVERYGOOD, Dance Video choreographed by Ella Genovese, Alfred, NY
Flesh Lump, AU Dance Theater choreographed by Ella Genovese, Alfred, NY
Awards
2025 Senior Painting Award, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2024 John C. Wood Professor Emeritus Award, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
This award recognizes an upper division student who is distinguished in one or more of the following areas: photography, printmaking, drawing, bookbinding, or
other works on paper.
2022-2025 Honors Program, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Enrolled in Alfred University’s honors program that requires taking 4 honors classes, and completion of an honors thesis in the spring of 2025.
2021-2025 Alfred University Scholar, Orchard Park High School, Orchard Park, NY
Academic Scholarship Award Presented by Orchard Park High School accepted for all four years.