Gianna Dispenza (b. 1990 Washington State, USA) is an artist living and working in London. In 2014, Dispenza graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in Sculpture. She later gained an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2020. The artists’ work has been exhibited extensively across Europe since her undergraduate, as well as in the USA, Korea, and Lebanon. Notably, Dispenza’s artworks have been shown in the renowned Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
More recent solo shows include ‘Soft Blots Beneath the Sun,’ Charles Moffett Gallery, NY (2022), ‘The Sitter,’ Natasha Arselan Gallery, London (2022), ‘Residency One,’ Galleria Ramo, Italy (2021) and ‘Overcome by Joy,’ Charles Moffett Gallery, NY (2021). Dispenza is also currently exhibiting in group shows in Milan, St. Moritz and Como, and she is working on a public sculpture for the city of Ede, in the Netherlands. The artist’s great talent and success has also been recognised with multiple awards and residencies including Beirut Art Residency with Darryl Westly (2017), and a residency at Galleria Ramo in Como, Italy (2021). Dispenza was also a finalist for the Bridgeman Studio Award: The Art of Diversity in 2020.
GIANNA DISPENZA
Naked Light
February 2023
Four You Gallery is pleased to present ‘Naked Light,’ an exhibition of artworks by Washington born and London based artist Gianna Dispenza (b. 1990). Complex, subversive, and somewhat scientific, Dispenza’s drawings resist the stereotype. They are fluctuating and abstract depictions of the female form that disappear into pure materiality in some lights, yet remarkably confront as bodily stature in others. Dispenza’s artworks are driven both by extensive research around the themes and materials of her work as well as a submission to the subconscious. The artworks exhibited in ‘Naked Light’ are starkly contemporary yet refer to the way that the female nude has been presented, and, more stimulatingly, misrepresented throughout art history.
In 2014, Gianna Dispenza was awarded with a BFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute, and more recently Dispenza graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2020). Over the past ten years, the artists’ work has been exhibited extensively across Europe since her undergraduate, as well as in the USA, Korea, and Lebanon. Dispenza’s talent has also been recognised with multiple awards and residencies including Beirut Art Residency with Darryl Westly (2017), and a residency at Galleria Ramo in Como, Italy (2021). Dispenza was also a finalist for the Bridgeman Studio Award: The Art of Diversity in 2020.
