Gioia Fonda
Gioia Fonda
Hello, my name is Gioia Fonda and I’m from Sacramento, CA
Gioia Fonda is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in two-dimensional media (painting, drawing, sewing and photography) with occasional forays in sculpture, performance and new media. Her subject matter is wide ranging from working in a colorful non-objective manner to directly addressing the fallout of the Great Recession. A resident member of Verge Center for the Arts, she is a dedicated member of the Sacramento art community contributing as artist, curator, jurist and collaborating artist. She has a bi-coastal art education receiving her BFA at the California College of the Arts in Oakland and her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is a tenured professor of art at Sacramento City College.
Location: 9th and O Streets (legacy work from 2014)
About my traffic utility box design:
“Untitled”
Original Medium: Mixed media
I’m a declarer of holidays, a transmitter of trivia, a cultural Argonaut and a faux anthropologist. I am simultaneously both neophyte and virtuoso of many skills. I’m a hypothetical historian, a connoisseur of tedium and a collector of the world’s flotsam. It’s by virtue of these proclivities that I create. I wanted my electrical box to evoke a sense of color and playfulness that may be in short supply during the average workday downtown. Many of the elements of this composition were created with repurposed materials familiar to all. It is my hope that a person that walks by this piece often will notice new things with subsequent viewings