| JOE FIORELLO is a sculptor and painter who lives and works in Truro, Ma. and Sarasota, Florida. He makes work from found materials including welded steel, paper, paint, wood and with a succession of different results from paintings to standing and wall sculpture to works on paper. Joe's great grandfather, Pasquale Fiorello, and his great uncle Giuseppe Fiorello were both liturgical sculptors; together they created numerous works used in churches throughout Sicily. He visited several of his ancestors' homes in Sicily in 2007. Sicily is rich in Greek antiquities. Joe has always been fascinated by Greek sculpture and architecture and has been influenced first hand by Cycladic and Minoan sculptures and artifacts as found in the ruins near Knossos, Agios Nicholaus and Glyfada on Crete. He has admired the simplicity and form of these early sculptures and the minimal shapes and mass which have influenced his work. Other artists he finds have influenced his work are Louise Nevelson, Martin Puryear and Donald Judd. |
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