Please join us for the Opening Reception
May 23rd, 2009
6:00- 8:00pm

Wheat Fields, Sosta del Papa Marc Dalessio 35.00" x 46.00"

Monti Marc Dalessio 54.00" x 70.00"

Banana Trees Marc Dalessio 16.00" x 20.00"

Featuring work from the winter in Florence, and his recent trip to Burma

We are pleased to invite the public to an Opening Reception for Marc Dalessio’s Solo Show from 6 to 8 pm on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 at 90 Main Street in Sag Harbor. Dalessio, painting the East End for 9 years now, returns with a range of works from his travels to Burma, Italy, and fresh local landscapes. Ten percent of the opening night’s Burmese painting sales will go to the “Myanmar Foundation”, to give back to the community that hosted his most recent plein air painting trip.

“Monti”, the vast 54 x 70 inch canvas, captures the sparkling early spring view of a Tuscan valley from the top of an olive grove. “In the Face of All Aridity” is an original Tuscan scene of a home garden in the country side. “Irrawaddy Princess” is a fine plein air painting, with water’s edge view of a grand old ferry that plies the famous river that bisects Burma. Dalessio’s extraordinary talent as portrait painter is most evident with his “Candy”, the evocative painting of South American beauty that passed through Florence last year, leaving a wake of suitors in her path. Dalessio is available for portrait commissions. If you are interested in commissioning a portrait, please contact the Grenning Gallery for prices and more information.

More about Marc Dalessio:
Marc Dalessio has crafted an enviable life as a painter. In addition to his prolific output, he is also a generous teacher, a craftsman, an entrepreneur, an art historian, an internet blogger and occasionally even finds himself an international emissary of classical painting. The engine behind Dalessio’s efforts is a love of nature combined with an unfettered passion to paint everyday, most of the day.

Dalessio (b.1972), a gifted draftsman, has been painting full time since graduating Phi Beta Kappa from University of California in Santa Cruz in 1992 where he focused on both biology and art. After university, he moved to Florence, Italy, and spent another 8 years studying with Svetlan Kracsyna at the Ill Bisonte International School of Graphic Arts, where he earned a Masters in Printmaking. He also spent many years studying and teaching in Charles Cecil Studios in Florence, and more recently taught at the Florence Academy of Art. He has also just opened his own atelier, “Donatello, 31” on the edge of Florence’s historic district.

Dalessio’s search for beauty has taken him to some of the more exotic corners of our planet. He travels - sometimes on his own, but often with a group of like-minded plein air painters - to world renowned landscapes, including but not limited to Kuki Gallman’s ranch in Kenya, a castle in Rajasthan, a barge on the Seine in France, a chalet in Switzerland, and a village in Myanmar (Burma). Dalessio has been painting on the East End of Long Island since 2000, adding Shelter Island and Sag Harbor to his visual travelogue.

Interestingly, on his blog (www.marcdalessio.com), he says that the beauty in a place like Rajasthan can be overwhelming, and create a small panic that one may leave this gorgeous place without capturing its magnificence. He goes on to say that some of the most memorable landscape paintings he has seen often depict simple and unremarkable scenes, which would have gone unobserved by most.

Dalessio’s generosity with his experience is representative of this classical realist atelier movement, where most painters understand that they need their peers around them in order to improve. As a rigorous traditionalist, Dalessio grinds most of his own paint, and has even posted color swatches of his research into the various pigments on his blog. He offers a plethora of relevant and helpful information and interesting art history tidbits, from how to transport canvases internationally to what camera to use to photograph one’s work to the English and Cyrillic name of a little known landscape painter that wowed him in a recent trip to Russia.

Dalessio is living the life most painters and aesthetes aspire to live. His process is supported by his gallery sales and his thriving portraiture business, and his recently opened atelier, where he and several other painters are passing on this highly refined visual language that almost died from neglect during the last part of the 20th century.

The exhibit will hang through June 21st.

Check the website www.grenninggallery.com for more information on the artist and the show.

Please contact the Gallery if you have any questions.
631-725-8469
Laura’s Cell: 631-767-5302