Art Talk: Gina Siciliano on Italian Baroque Painter Artemesia Gentileschi
A Collaboration between PhxArt and FOCUS on European Art
March 27, 2024 | 7 - 8:30 PM
Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity.
TICKETS: Free for Members | $5 for the general public
Join us as artist, musician, and historian Gina Siciliano tells the story of Artemisia Gentileschi, Italy's most famous woman painter of the 17th century. Siciliano will discuss Gentileschi’s paintings within the context of their time and place, illuminating ongoing controversies and exciting new discoveries.
A book signing will follow the lecture at The Museum Store.
About the Speaker:
Gina Siciliano is an artist, writer, musician, and historian living in Seattle, WA. She is the creator of I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi, a graphic biography of Italy's most famous woman painter of the 17th century. This ground-breaking synthesis of academic research and ball-point pen art took seven years to complete. I Know What I Am was released in the fall of 2019 by beloved local publisher Fantagraphics. Since then, Siciliano has been lecturing about Artemisia and sharing the story of this project with various museums, schools, and media, from the Seattle Art Museum, to the BBC's Radio 3, to the Frick Museum in Pittsburgh and St. Olaf College in Minnesota, and more. In 2020, I Know What I Am won an Independent Publisher Award and an American Librarians Association award and was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award. Siciliano graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2007, where she studied oil painting, anatomical illustration, figure sculpture, comics, zines, and self-publishing. She's continued oil painting, primarily portraiture, often utilizing early modern and Caravaggesque techniques. Siciliano is also a fixture within Seattle's used bookstore scene, working at various shops where she's determined to put good books into people's hands. Siciliano is currently working on a series of new essay comics, and teaching at both Hugo House and Gage Academy. Connect with Gina and see her work at www.ginasiciliano.com.