SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
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The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Layla
Fanucci
USA
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“In my specific city paintings, I create a vision of architecture piled up into a dense mass of impacted forms.”
Layla Fanucci's cityscapes capture this paradox in the city as both magnificent and daunting. The individual buildings maintain a tenuous grip on their identities, much as the populace of the painted cities seems subsumed by the huge forms looming above them.
Went to Morocco to exhibit 30 paintings at the museum de Marrakech, solo exhibition. Went to Paris before returning home. Came back to California and painted this painting.
“Art is like a song that speaks to you in ways words cannot. That is what art does, it speaks to the heart, it speaks to the soul and it comforts us.” Layla Fanucci
Fanucci's cities have an undeniable grandeur, from the arching colossus of the Eiffel Tower to the powerful curve of a bridge with the skyscrapers of Manhattan beyond.
Born in SanFrancisco, this piece is all I remember about the city of SanFrancisco
Even in her depictions of places steeped in traditions, such as Rome, Venice, and Istanbul, the splendor of the city rings clear, as the habitat that cultures build both to shelter and celebrate themselves.
“I was encouraged by my parents to study multiple instruments, learning to play the piano, clarinet, and guitar.”
Born in San Francisco in 1957, Layla Fanucci's artistic talent was first expressed in music. She went on to teach the guitar, putting herself through San Francisco State University by giving lessons. She became the director of music at the St. Helena Catholic Church and wrote and directed concerts at the church's elementary school.
“In 1998, I wanted some "big, live art" for my home. Finding nothing to my liking, I bought some art supplies and created a large, colorful abstract painting. By the year 1999, I was ready to stop teaching music and devote myself full-time to making art.”
She followed her first painting with a version of Matisse's The Red Studio, followed by two other works inspired by the same artist. Then she began to create portraits of her family, still life, city scenes, and abstractions with figures. These paintings, while diverse in character, often had vibrant color, bold forms, energetic brush strokes, and a sense that whatever the style, the painting was charged with underlying emotion.
I did a series on Central Park, 25 paintings of Central Park in all seasons. This is CP in fall.
“My next challenge was to develop a style of painting that no one paints, in the world.”
Central
Park in Summer
On large canvases, Fanucci establishes shifting fields of color, over which she paints networks of linear brush strokes, which coalesce into the forms and patterns of the city. The intuitive directness of her approach, its painterly energy, and graphic invention all bespeak both the hyped-up excess of urban experience and something more intensely personal, expressive of the artist and her inner world.
Painting of Wall Street
She found her voice and that style in her cityscape paintings. Applying layer upon layer of paint on her canvases, searching for the colors that best communicate the mood that gives the truest essence of the city. When the paint finally dries, she takes a brush and in black, draws the outlines of the buildings, bridges, streets, and people, imbuing the painting with life and adding particulars that will make the city unique and distinctive.
Painted after trip to Paris
Fanucci's paintings have been exhibited in many galleries and museums worldwide. Notably, The Walter Wickiser Gallery in New York, The Christopher Hill Gallery in St. Helena, Andrews Art Museum in North Carolina, Chasen Gallery in Florida, Le Musee de Marrakech in Morocco, Lisa Freedman Fine Arts, 750 Wines Studio, VAM Art Inc., The Carrousel Du Louvre in Paris.
Painted for a series Central Park in all seasons
“Painting city upon city, my paintings have two, three, or four full paintings/cities underneath the final works.”
Red is my favorite color, New York one of my favorite cities.
Fanucci sold over 480 paintings for up to $350,000.00 She has received many commissions and her works are in numerous private collections. Went to Morocco to exhibit 30 paintings at the Museum de Marrakech, a solo exhibition. Went to Paris before returning home. Came back to California and painted this painting.
New York one of my favorite cities
Fanucci's work has met with great success, and she's exhibited cityscapes of Paris, London, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Venice, New York, Washington, and San Francisco in galleries and museums around the world.
Painted after a trip to Paris