Giusy Lauriola, an Italian artist born and residing in Rome, where she has her studio.
Lauriola’s technique manifests itself in a surprisingly eloquent and engaging manner. Colors play a central role, not merely as pigments but as vehicles for deep and hidden emotions. Her brushstrokes seem to channel a primordial instinct, as if each stroke is an unconscious call to the energy of nature.
The texture she creates is fascinating: resin adds a material dimension that transforms the flat surface of the canvas into a tactile, almost sculptural space. The contrast between fluidity and structure is evident in the way resin integrates with acrylic and enamel, creating a dialogue between the liquid and the solid, the gestural and the deliberate.
This combination of materials highlights an artistic process that appears both meditated and instinctive. There is a visible tension between the figurative and the abstract, inviting the viewer to explore each work as an inner landscape. Each of her creations seems to be a powerful reflection on the duality between the visible and the invisible, on what emerges and what remains hidden, compelling the observer to question and immerse themselves in a suspended, intimate, and vibrant dimension. The use of space, often empty or undefined, gives her works a metaphysical quality, evoking a dimension beyond time and space, like an open window onto the unconscious.
Lauriola’s great skill also lies in her ability to modulate light and color, turning it into a meditative act, an invitation to the viewer to “close their eyes” and perceive the work through sensitivity rather than sight. This approach, so gestural and free, distinguishes her and gives her work a depth that connects her inner world with the external one.
Additionally, over time, the artist has successfully maintained a common thread throughout the various series of works she has produced, preserving thematic consistency and the ability to explore universal emotions. She represents these with an original approach to materials, and through the harmony she creates between abstraction and figuration—central elements of her poetic vision of color and form.
Since 2004, Giusy Lauriola has successfully exhibited her work both in Italy and abroad, with recent exhibitions including: Linea sottile – Palazzo Marziale, Sorrento; Sospesi nella Natura – Spazio Cima Gallery, Roma; Il cielo in una stanza (2023, solo exhibition) at the Auditorium of San Pancrazio, Tarquinia; Chiudi gli occhi (2023, solo exhibition) at the Aranciera di San Sisto, Rome; Artètika (2023, solo exhibition) in Palermo; Prendiamo il sentiero paludoso per arrivare alle nuvole (2022, solo exhibition) at the Umberto Mastroianni Gallery within the Museums of San Salvatore in Lauro, Rome; participation in the SyArt Sorrento International Festival (2022) at Villa Fiorentino, Sorrento Foundation; illustrations for the editorial project Guido Levi, una storia piena di paure, di ansie e di avvenimenti quasi gialli 1942-1946; and Domino/Dominio per gioco e per davvero (2019) at MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome.
Awards and Recognitions: In 2021, at the SyArt Sorrento International Festival, she received the prestigious Arbiter Fata Verde Award, and in 2022 she was featured on the cover of Arbiter magazine. She also received an Honorable Mention from the Circle Foundation for the Arts in 2020 and 2022, and was a finalist in major competitions such as the Premio Lupa 2020 and the Premio Celeste 2007. In 2015, she won the Museo Pier Maria Rossi competition.
Her works are held in prestigious collections, including the Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens, the SanPaolo Invest Art Collection in Rome, and the Pinacoteca Comunale Antonio Sapone in Gaeta. From 2021 to 2024, she participated in numerous contemporary art fairs, such as Arte in Nuvola in Rome and fairs in Genoa, Padua, and Parma.
In 2020, she was included in the Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea De Agostini, one of the most comprehensive surveys of Italian artists since 1950. Her career has led her to exhibit internationally, as an honorary guest at the International Photo Festival in Lodz (Poland) in 2006, and in solo exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the Italian Cultural Institute of Damascus in 2010 and the Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo in 2024, on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day.
Art critics who have contributed texts to her catalogs include: Giorgia Calò, Maurizio Calvesi, Antonietta Campilongo, Cristina del Ferraro, Manuela De Leonardis, Federica Di Stefano, Micol Di Veroli, Barbara Drudi, Carlo Ercoli, Gianluca Marziani, Manuela Pacelli, Sergio Rispoli, Agnieszka Zakrzewicz.