Gianna Tesone is an American-born artist currently based in the Netherlands. She holds a BFA in painting, creative theory, and art history. Her work has been exhibited across the United States, Canada, and Europe, and has participated in international artist residencies. She works in collaborative settings alongside other artists promoting arts advocacy and educational initiatives based in research.
Tesone’s practice explores abstraction as her language for understanding the architecture of the human body, seeing though the lens of sacred motifs. landscape into the body as vessel and archive. Through layered abstraction, sculptural paint, and saturated colour, her paintings invite a deeper reverence for the body and human existence in its entirety Informed by anatomy, physiology, and natural design, her work invites a sensory encounter with the body as both physical form and living intelligence.