Artist Biography

Lynda Pizzuto is an artist whose work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York and France. Venues include Denise Bibro; Jan Baum, Commissary Arts; Lois Neiter Fine Art; Art Basel- (Aqua Art Miami); Mona Bismarck Foundation -Paris, France; and Biologique Centre International d’Art -Pont Aven, France.

Pizzuto’s work is in many private and public collections including:

Arthur Blank Family Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia

Joan Paydon- Paydon@Rygal, Los Angeles, California

Chinese World Trade Center, Beijing, China

Mandarin Oriental, New York, New York

MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Shangri-La, Pazjou , China

Bellagio, Las Vegas, Nevada

She was awarded and Artist in Residence in Pont-Aven, Brittany, France and also was a guest teacher at RISD accredited school in Pont-Aven, Brittany, France.

Artist Statement

I have always been interested in patterns found in the natural world. My work suggests a juicy, organically ordered entropy. Many of my paintings have references to botanical forms and could be thought of as abstract, fantastical gardens.

With the employment of an unlikely combination of stain and pouring techniques, using acrylic and ink, drawing with markers on unprimed canvas, combined with embedding textile, beaded textile and other collage elements literally into the surface of the canvas, this for me has developed into an alchemic process. That is, to change the materials from one state to another to have them transcend their forms to give life to another expression. Matter transmutations. Also considering color from Alchemic text: nigredo-a blackening, albedo-a whitening, citrinitas-a yellowing, rubedo-a redding or purpling.

I live and work in a garden so how would I not be seduced? For me, everything exists in the garden, the entire cycle of life, and of course the joy and wonder of a flower. I view the world as a Taoist, seeing a symbiosis of patterns that cannot exist without one another.

Though my work is labor intensive and in some ways highly controlled, I try to live by the notion of no rules only improvisations.