Profile Information
- Website
- http://www.andreabonifacio.com
- Relationship status
- single
- College / University
- Carroll College, Helena, MT
- Graduation
- 15 May 1993
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Conceptual, Installation, Painting
- I am...
- Painter, collage artist and illustrator creating original paintings, collages, and installations. Currently working on a series called Glossolalia, wherein speaking in tongues is part of the creative process. See my website for details.
- About my artwork
- Glossolalia
n. The ability or phenomenon to utter words or sounds of a language unknown to the speaker, especially as an expression of religious ecstasy. Also called "speaking in tongues."
For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit. --1 Cor 14:2
Tradition teaches that to speak in tongues is to utter the language of the divine. The speaker does not control or understand what she is saying, but trusts that that language, given by God, has a building, creative effect on herself and on the world around her. I began practicing this ancient form of prayer after months of Scripture studies and dedication to my own spiritual development.
I had always considered the role of the spiritual as integral to my work, but this is the first series where I have focused primarily on creating nonrepresentational paintings that are truly driven by that inner voice, with glossolalia itself serving as a vocal vehicle. For the past three years, I have included speaking in tongues in my painting and artmaking, in a kind of intercollaborative creative process. I’ve created these paintings in an automatic fashion, layering repetitive, script-like marks over background washes, and working intuitively with the sound and leading of tongues. The resulting works illustrate a dialogue and interaction heretofore unexplored in a contemporary context, and create a new spiritual and aesthetic experience for a modern audience. They are also, on a personal level, the most visually palpable aspect of my ever-evolving relationship--part pastoral picnic, part wrestling match--with the divine.
Previous to Glossolalia, my work primarily focused on collage of various found- and used-object media, and employing those media to create personal translations of various aspects of modern urban life, exercising both my analytical, Deconstructionist skills and my childhood love of jigsaw puzzles.
- Artists I like
- Lee Mullican, Louise Nevelson, Georges Rouault, Barbara Kruger, Der Blaue Reiter, Christo and Jean-Claude, Tom Otterness
- The centre of the artworld is
- nowhere and everywhere
From my current series, Glossoalia--see more works at www.andreabonifacio.com
Ayden, acrylic on canvas, 2006
Detail of Ayden
Firmament, acrylic on canvas, 2007
Dalet installation view, acrylic on canvas, 2006. This installation, currently in eight units, is on view at the offices of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, NY, NY. For details, see this page on my website.
A detail shot from one of the Dalet units
Cornerstone, 2007
I have also worked in collage--this is Seed (6 of 6), paper collage and colored pencil on paper, 2004...
...and installation--this shot is from Ephphatha, which was installed in a church in Brooklyn in 2002
Detail of Ayden
Firmament, acrylic on canvas, 2007
Dalet installation view, acrylic on canvas, 2006. This installation, currently in eight units, is on view at the offices of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, NY, NY. For details, see this page on my website.
A detail shot from one of the Dalet units
Cornerstone, 2007
I have also worked in collage--this is Seed (6 of 6), paper collage and colored pencil on paper, 2004...
...and installation--this shot is from Ephphatha, which was installed in a church in Brooklyn in 2002
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I love the idea of "VIsual Prayer"
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