Colette Calascione Art Collections
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Artwork by Colette Calascione
Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Dream of a hungry ghost by Colette Calascione
Sleeping Hermaphrodite by Colette Calascione
Amphitrite by Colette Calascione
Lost at sea by Colette Calascione
Illumination by Colette Calascione
Bird Girl by Colette Calascione
Lady at Home by Colette Calascione
Persephone by Colette Calascione
Faun Flora and Fawn by Colette Calascione
Titania by Colette Calascione
Bliss Ninny by Colette Calascione
Vixen by Colette Calascione
Cockfight by Colette Calascione
Two heads are better than one by Colette Calascione
Self portrait with internal landscape by Colette Calascione
Monkey Love by Colette Calascione
Ariadne by Colette Calascione
Leda and the Swan by Colette Calascione
Repunzel by Colette Calascione
Clementine Valentine by Colette Calascione
L'amour Bleue by Colette Calascione
Lorelei by Colette Calascione
Eurydice by Colette Calascione
Smoking Mermaid by Colette Calascione
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About Colette Calascione
Colette Calascione was born in the Bay Area and received her B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. She resides in California. Inspired by books and images of earlier eras, particularly the Victorian era, Calascione invents a world that is her own. Images of women and children in old photographs are transformed in the artist’s hands. She never literally copies a photo or its background. When she sees a figure she likes, her vision forms around it. Clothed figures in photographs are sometimes undressed by Calascione in her paintings, and placed in a mise-en-scene she creates. Rarely does the environment surrounding the figure come directly from a book or photo, as a “quote.” Addressing the issue of gender identity and particularly that of “female identity,” Calascione’s imagination takes her into flights of fancy and fantasy in her paintings. She paints women in all guises, mostly unclothed, sitting on divans brocaded in satin, standing provocatively looking at the viewer, reclining on a bed surrounded by the stuff of dream and fantasy, purring cats, fairy tale fish, toy soldiers Her painting, “Traveling Hermit,” gives the appearance of a masterwork, a classic posed “portrait” of an elegant woman of stature, dressed in velvet and lace, with exotic hat. The imagined hat, like attenuated wings, focuses the viewer’s attention on the lady’s eyes—are they there, or are they not? Calascione always evokes in the viewed a multitude of questions: this painting has the “seer” being seen, by eyes that take us to the great beyond. Painted like Old Master paintings in many layers of oil, the artist beguiles us with her images and her imagination. Colette Calascione is represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York, N.Y