A review of my Hoxie Gallery exhibit published by The New London Day's online magazine, DayExtra.
The Westerly Sun publicized the opening reception for my Hoxie show.
I received First Honors in the 2017 Wickford Art Association with my photograph, “The Pet Bag."
I had two photographs in the Newport Art Museum this past winter.
The Day New London, CT, October 20. 2014
Hygienic announces ‘f-stop’ winners
New London's Hygienic Art Galleries announced the winners of the fourth annual "The f-stops Here" photography exhibition. Maria Scaglione won first place; Harrison Judd and June Bizantz were runners-up and Tony Sullivan finished third. Honorable mentions went to Pola Esther and Scaglione (also). The show was judged by Scott Gordley, director of the B.F.A. animation/illustration program at Montclair State University.
Hygienic announces ‘f-stop’ winners
New London's Hygienic Art Galleries announced the winners of the fourth annual "The f-stops Here" photography exhibition. Maria Scaglione won first place; Harrison Judd and June Bizantz were runners-up and Tony Sullivan finished third. Honorable mentions went to Pola Esther and Scaglione (also). The show was judged by Scott Gordley, director of the B.F.A. animation/illustration program at Montclair State University.
This was the first-place winning photograph.
‘2013 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition’A curious blend
By GREG COOK
February 26, 2013
Full article:
"2013 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition," the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts' annual roundup of winners of the agency's $5000 and $1000 grants, is a curious experience. At the Jamestown Art Center (18 Valley St, through March 19), it serves as a sampler of what's percolating in the state but, with a handful of works from each of the 14 visual artists — plus videos featuring choreography — everything kind of blends together.
A few pieces stand out. Providence sculptor Jill Colinan, who is now a multi-time state grant winner, is known for stitching together creepy, funny, patchwork lady dolls. Her Baby Doll is a lumpy fabric figure laying sprawled, naked, on her back on an overstuffed little bed perched atop four-foot-tall spindly legs. One eye is closed, the other half-open; her lips are parted to reveal creepy bead teeth. Three zippers run down her body, like the surgical scars from some Dr. Frankenstein. One zipper along the middle of her chest is pulled down a bit and white stuffing spills out for a visceral jolt.
The photograph Lori by Maria Scaglione of Westerly depicts a woman with red curly hair kissing her reflection in a window. The twinning makes the photo feel kaleidoscopic. Her reflection is like an apparition emerging from the lush green foliage of the garden and alluring blue pool outside. Scaglione's other photos here are just okay, straight-ahead portraits of folks whom she describes as "separated from a 'normal' social environment by their grandiose and difficult personalities." But Lori is in another register. It vibrates like a hallucination.
By GREG COOK
February 26, 2013
Full article:
"2013 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition," the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts' annual roundup of winners of the agency's $5000 and $1000 grants, is a curious experience. At the Jamestown Art Center (18 Valley St, through March 19), it serves as a sampler of what's percolating in the state but, with a handful of works from each of the 14 visual artists — plus videos featuring choreography — everything kind of blends together.
A few pieces stand out. Providence sculptor Jill Colinan, who is now a multi-time state grant winner, is known for stitching together creepy, funny, patchwork lady dolls. Her Baby Doll is a lumpy fabric figure laying sprawled, naked, on her back on an overstuffed little bed perched atop four-foot-tall spindly legs. One eye is closed, the other half-open; her lips are parted to reveal creepy bead teeth. Three zippers run down her body, like the surgical scars from some Dr. Frankenstein. One zipper along the middle of her chest is pulled down a bit and white stuffing spills out for a visceral jolt.
The photograph Lori by Maria Scaglione of Westerly depicts a woman with red curly hair kissing her reflection in a window. The twinning makes the photo feel kaleidoscopic. Her reflection is like an apparition emerging from the lush green foliage of the garden and alluring blue pool outside. Scaglione's other photos here are just okay, straight-ahead portraits of folks whom she describes as "separated from a 'normal' social environment by their grandiose and difficult personalities." But Lori is in another register. It vibrates like a hallucination.
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IN THEIR ELEMENT
A Westerly photographer captures interesting people in suburbia. Westerly-based photographer Maria Scaglione By Bob Curley Full article: In ancient Roman mythology, the god Janus is depicted as having two faces because he is the master of both the past and the future. Photographer and Italian immigrant Maria Scaglione has a similar duality in her work, balancing a career as a wedding photographer with her passion for documenting the lives of unique individuals in their homes and surrounded by their personal histories. |
PHOTO BY MaryLou Butler
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Scaglione spent the first 12 years of her life in the tiny Calabrian village of Cocozello before her parents brought her to America to settle in Westerly. Inspired by the textured landscape and mountains of her birthplace, Scaglione developed a passion for sculpture from an early age, even apprenticing at a marble-carving studio in Florence during a return to Italy to study art and art history.
At the same time, she was nurturing her interest in photography, capturing documentary-style images of her relatives and neighbors engaged in everyday village life both in Cocozello and Westerly. Furthering her move away from the three-dimensional world of sculpture, Scaglione attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City to study photography, learning at this bastion of postmodernism to work with reality as it is—to “become an objective viewer and take something back from that,” she says.
As wedding photographer, however, Scaglione must follow certain conventions: no matter how avant-garde the bride and groom, for example, everyone wants photos of the bride walking to the altar, the exchange of vows, the first kiss. What keeps the work interesting for Scaglione is the opportunity to capture the less-staged, more organic moments in between these standard, staged scenes, where she can become less of an artisan and more of a photojournalist.
At the same time, she was nurturing her interest in photography, capturing documentary-style images of her relatives and neighbors engaged in everyday village life both in Cocozello and Westerly. Furthering her move away from the three-dimensional world of sculpture, Scaglione attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City to study photography, learning at this bastion of postmodernism to work with reality as it is—to “become an objective viewer and take something back from that,” she says.
As wedding photographer, however, Scaglione must follow certain conventions: no matter how avant-garde the bride and groom, for example, everyone wants photos of the bride walking to the altar, the exchange of vows, the first kiss. What keeps the work interesting for Scaglione is the opportunity to capture the less-staged, more organic moments in between these standard, staged scenes, where she can become less of an artisan and more of a photojournalist.
