The Artist
Artist Statement
Timothy Gianelli is a psychological landscape painter working within and against the lineage of American landscape painting. Rather than depicting specific locations, Gianelli uses landscape to give physical form to uncertainty, fear, memory, and hesitation.
For Gianelli, a psychological landscape is one that feels like an emotional or mental state rather than a literal place. The landscape becomes a psychological threshold, beautiful, but charged with something that cannot be fully named.
The work originates in a childhood warning Gianelli received about the woods: do not go in there, because people do not always come back. Rather than serving as autobiography, this warning becomes the conceptual foundation of the paintings, shaping landscape into a place where beauty and threat remain inseparable.
Artist Bio
Timothy Gianelli is a painter based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work centers on imagined landscapes, forbidden places, and the psychological tension between attraction and danger. At age ten, he exhibited work at the deCordova Museum in Massachusetts. His paintings have since been exhibited at Pellas Gallery in Boston.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 "Surrealism Goes to the Beach" - Pellas Gallery, Boston, MA
2024 "No Borders" - Pellas Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 "Abstraction, Expressionism, and Beyond" - Pellas Gallery, Boston
2021 "Atypical Renaissance" - Pellas Gallery, Boston, MA
