Gary Giordano

Gary Giordano is an artist, gallerist, and curator living in Lambertville, New Jersey, know as a historic river town and arts community.

Giordano hosts a bi-monthly Artist Talk featuring many contemporary painters. These talks are recorded to Gallery Gary Giordano Artist Talks, YouTube. Giordano owned and operated Gallery Gary Giordano from 2016 to 2022, in Bushwick, Brooklyn’s. 56 Bogart Building was the hub of the New York City arts scene. Giordano relocated to New Hope, Pennsylvania in 2021. Giordano has exhibited In New York City, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and New Jersey and is held in many private collections. Giordano has also created alternative space exhibitions and installations in public areas.

Born in New Jersey and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Giordano’s early influences were impressionism, modernism, and abstraction which he first was exposed to at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. In 2009, after meeting several New York based artist, Giordano moved his studio practice to Bushwick, Brooklyn from 2012 to 2017. Giordano became emerged in the dialogue of this arts community of New York which had a strong influence on his current work.

Giordano attended Kutztown University to study fine art and painting but switched majors in his third year to study business. Giordano received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He opened a studio in Lambertville, New Jersey in 2012 and maintains a home and studio there until the present day.

He is a mentor and teacher of Autistic Students.

Education
Kutztown University, Bachelor of Science

Continuing Education, Kutztown University Alumni Seminar, Art Design and Visual Culture

Art Students League, New York, Portraiture (Dominique Medici) 2020. Abstract Painting (Pat Lipsky) 2017

Independent Study, Drawing groups and Artist workshops, 2018, 2009

Community
The Greater New Hope Chamber of Commerce (Board member), 2022

Owner, 2004-present: Partner Giordano Enterprise trading as Killarney’s Publick House, a restaurant and bar located in Hamilton Township, New Jersey

Teacher: Working with Autistic students on the principles of painting, 2009-2013

August 20, 2022, Gestural Painting Exhibition 20 West Bridge Street New Hope Pa. Gary Giordano.

June 18, 2022, Dream with Ukraine Charitable Midsummer Garden Fete, French Antiques Buckingham Pa. Exhibit and auction.

May 14-July 1, 2022, Skull Series Exhibition, 20 W Bridge Street New Hope Pa.

September 1-Nov-30 2021, Letting Go, Exhibition New Hope Pa., Paintings based on concepts of letting go. By Gary Giordano.

July 2021, Collaboration Workshop, Kutztown University Kutztown Pa. Graduate students instructed on collaborative painting.

May 1-September 1, 2021, The River and Country Exhibition, Paintings by Gary Giordano 20 West Bridge Street New Hope Pa 18938.

April 16-June 20, 2021, Painters and Painting Group exhibition with work by the artists Sophia Chizuco, Bill Page, Jeff Evans, Alice Zinnes, Gary Giordano, Robert Zurer, Mark Rosenthal, Olga Alexander, Kellyanne Hanrahan, Darren McManus, and Joel Adas. artsy.net/show/gallery-gary-giordano-painters-and-painting.

3/21, Unprecedented, A virtual exhibition on Artsy. Curator, Artist also included Jeff Evans, Elena Chestnykh, Alice Zinnes, Robert Zurer, Johanna Furst, Mark Rosenthal, Bill Leech, Sophia, Chizuco, Bill Page, Gary Giordano.

2/2021, Gallery Gary Giordano, Virtual Gallery through Artsy, Representing New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia Artists, currently Olga Alexander, Cathy Diamond, Jeff Morabito, Jeff Evans, Elena Chestnykh, Alice Zinnes, Robert Zurer, Johanna Furst, Mark Rosenthal, Bill Leech, Sophia, Chizuco, Bill Page, Gary Giordano.

10/2020, Painting Covid Skull, Public Art Installation. Church and Main Street Lambertville New Jersey.

05/2020 Gary Giordano Artist Talks, Video live stream Artist talks 40 Artist from New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. To share intellectual conversation on ideas and practice.

08/2020, Present Win Win, Painting Exhibition Spring Garden Street Philadelphia PA.

03/2019, Distance and Happiness, Dreams and Time, Exhibition Artworks Trenton New Jersey, Gary Giordano, Jeff Evans, Elena Chestnykh, Buket Savci.

01/2019, Pecha Kucha, Speaker, Artist talk, 20 images 20 seconds per image. Lambertville New Jersey.

09/2018, Outside the White Cube, Curator, and participating Artist. Outside public art exhibition of 25 Artists across New Hope Pennsylvania and Lambertville New Jersey.

05/2018, Delaware River Artists 2018, Curator and Artist, Group Show at Delaware River Towns Chamber of Commerce Center, Lambertville New Jersey.

03/2018, Surfaces. Solo exhibition Paintings and works on Paper, Delaware River Towns Chamber of Commerce Center, Lambertville New Jersey.

9/2017, September 8 Show works on Paper, Curator, 12 Bushwick Artists, Gallery Gary Giordano Bushwick Brooklyn New York.

8/2017, August 4 Show, Curator, Gallerist, and participating artist. Group show contemporary Artists on the figure. Gallery Gary Giordano The Bogart Building Bushwick Brooklyn New York.

7/2017, Gaylkyd Gaylkyd, Curator, Gallerist, New Paintings Debra Drexler, and Lucas Moran, curated at Gallery Gary Giordano, The Bogart Building Bushwick Brooklyn New York.

6/2017, Portraiture and The Figure, Curator, and Gallerist, Group Show, Gallery Gary Giordano, The Bogart Building, Brooklyn, NY.

4/2017, Strange Entities, Gallerist, New Paintings by Paul Behnke at Gallery Gary Giordano, Brooklyn, NY.

11/2017, New Works, Graham Preston and Paul Neenan. Curator, Gallery Gary Giordano, Brooklyn NY.

10/2016, Making the Future- Participating Artist, AIB group show, David and Shwietzer Gallery, Brooklyn NY.

10/2016, Solo Show, Gallery Gary Giordano, Brooklyn, NY.

7/2016, Frenchtown Work-Solo Show Milk Crate Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ.

4/2016, Light it up Blue- Curated Charity Group show for autism, Milk Crate Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ.

3/2016, Dream Catching- Participating Artist, Group show, Club 157 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

2/2016, Go Figure- Co-curated and participating Artist a group show, Milk Crate Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ.

1/2016, First, Shift, Third- Participating Artist a group show, Milk Crate Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ.

11/2015, Back from Brooklyn- solo show, Milk Crate Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ.

8/2015, Matt Burton Gallery-Participating Artist a group show, Long Beach Island, NJ.

1/2015, Making History-Participating Artist a group show, Store Front Ten Eyk Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC.

6/2015, Bushwick Open Studio-Art Fair. The 55 Building, Brooklyn, NYC.

7/2014, The 55 Building Installation - Artist, Designer an Instillation Piece, two eighty-foot murals for ceiling of office and industrial building, The 55 Building Brooklyn, NY.

7/2014, Brooklyn Works- solo show, The A Space Gallery, New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, PA.

1/2014, Dream Catcher- Participating Artist a group show, Space Womb Gallery, Lower East Side NYC.

5/2013, Bushwick Open Studio-Participating Artist, Art Fair. The 55 Building Brooklyn, NYC.

5/2012, Bushwick Open Studio-Participating Artist, Art Fair. The 55 Building Brooklyn, NYC.

11/2010, Hopewell Valley Winery-solo show, Hopewell, NJ.

5/2008, Gallery Gary Giordano- Gallerist, Artist, Gallery Lambertville, NJ.