Monastery at Trevi Marc Dalessio 10.00" x 13.75"

Lake in Connecticut Marc Dalessio 47.25" x 59.00"

East Hampton Tractor Marc Dalessio 8.00" x 8.00"

The Chapel of San Cerbone at Baratti Marc Dalessio 10.00" x 13.75"

Beach Cart Marc Dalessio 8.00" x 10.00"

The Tractor Bridge on the Clitunno #2 Marc Dalessio 10.00" x 13.75"

Tractor Bridge on the Clitunno Marc Dalessio 8.00" x 12.00"

Durazzo Umbrellas Marc Dalessio 8.00" x 12.00"

Tractor Bridge on the Clitunno Marc Dalessio 10.00" x 13.75"

German Market in Santa Croce Marc Dalessio 10.00" x 13.75"

Stone Pines at Palone Marc Dalessio 12.00" x 15.75"

Fishing Hut on the Cornia Marc Dalessio 8.00" x 12.00"

Sag Harbor Hobies Marc Dalessio 6.00" x 8.00"

Wheat Fields on the Trasimeno Marc Dalessio 31.50" x 39.50"

Windy Day at Palone Marc Dalessio 12.00" x 15.75"

We are pleased to invite the public to an Opening Reception for Marc Dalessio’; Latest Works from 6 to 8 pm on Saturday, August 21st at 17 Washington Street, in Sag Harbor.

Marc Dalessio (b1972) solo show this year builds from a series of smaller and medium works, as we see the world through his un-jaded painter’s eyes. Whether it’s a glimpse up a stony European street to catch the towering church steeple in “Santa Croce”, 16 x 12 inches, a broken down East Hampton old farm truck in “east Hampton Tractor”, 8 x 8 inches, or the boats at Haven’s Beach in “Sag Harbor Hobies”, 6 x 8 inches, each one of these works captures the local feeling. They also show us Dalessio’s distinct curiosity about light, color, shape and form.

The exhibit builds up to the more important paintings, particularly the series of works done in Trasimeno, Italy. There are three smaller paintings that explore the canals and woods around the massive fields. These are wonderful works, but the two major Wheat field paintings, “Wheat Fields on Trasimeno” 32 x 40 inches, and “Wheat Fields Below Montefalco” 36 x 47, demonstrate the success of the process, which requires several smaller studies, to get the great big paintings.

Dalessio is clearly awed by nature in these pieces, and most definitely in the most important major work of the show “Lake in Connecticut”, which is 47 x 59 inches. This painting beautifully captures the truth of this experience. In it you see the many layers of light and reflection, shadow and highlights that one would feel on the edge of a wood lined lake.


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, as well as 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 September 15th.

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
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Wheat Fields below Montefalco Marc Dalessio 35.50" x 47.25"