“[Gualdoni’s paintings] offer the expressive qualities of paint in combination with the artist’s skill to collaborate with process.” – Juror René de Guzman, Senior Curator, Oakland Museum of California

Angelina Gualdoni is a painter living in New York City. Using extended techniques in staining and pouring, Gualdoni invites viewers to consider how we read natural phenomena, both above and below ground level. The tension between the visible world and the invisible phenomena has sustained several bodies of work over a twenty-year career – from architectural subjects to domestic interiors, to explorations of plant medicine as a tool for healing body as well as site. In her most recent work, she renders the underworld as a site for alchemical and Jungian principles, strata of unseen activity and invisible support structures. Her paintings situate the known and legible intertwined with the unrecognizable. Through merging the domestic and urban with the wild, epistemology with psychology, she unsettles our relationship to causality, and the forces of the “natural” world.