tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19543592917275287882024-02-19T10:00:39.719-05:00Ivano StoccoFigments on painting and life as an artist<br>
<a href="http://www.ivanostocco.com/">www.ivanostocco.com</a>Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-19044407588099800792021-03-03T23:14:00.000-05:002021-03-03T23:14:41.141-05:00And There Was Calm "And There Was Calm," 60" x 40", mixed media on canvasThis painting is available through Canvas Gallery, Toronto.Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-65668647462335670192021-02-18T12:28:00.010-05:002021-02-18T18:26:11.302-05:00Excellent Sheep
I studied at three different universities in Canada, in small town Guelph and big town Toronto, in the sciences (environmental and computer) and in the humanities (history and education). The experience changed my life, but didn't stop me throughout from thinking it could be better, that a lot of potential was wasted. I've spent twenty years since graduating wondering whether I took these Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-40675689139432629012021-02-02T12:39:00.000-05:002021-02-02T12:39:00.678-05:00Rainbow Stairs "Rainbow Stairs," mixed media on panel, 12" x 12"
$225 USD + shipping/taxes included
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I do my best to use environmentally responsible pigments, varnishes, and
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and not losing anything in the way of colour or vibrancy. * ~ Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-58791296071075957302021-01-27T11:32:00.001-05:002021-01-27T11:32:42.242-05:00Together (No. 34) "Together (No. 34)," 24" x 48", oil and acrylic on panel in polished aluminum frame
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and not losing anything in the way of colour or vibrancy. * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Check out my website, Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-76671399997067536992021-01-23T17:08:00.003-05:002021-01-23T17:09:29.946-05:00Three Parasols "Three Parasols," mixed media on wood panel, 42" x 21"
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$125 USD + shipping/taxes included
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and not losing anything Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-63893134574428501342021-01-07T10:10:00.000-05:002021-01-07T10:11:02.970-05:00Under the Overpass"Under the Overpass," watercolor and acrylic, 12" x 9"
$75 USD + shipping/taxes included
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$75 USD + shipping/taxes included
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I do my best to use environmentally responsible pigments, varnishes, and
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and not losing anything in the way of colour or vibrancy. * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Check out my website, Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-44169238079832473572020-12-30T13:31:00.001-05:002020-12-30T13:31:49.367-05:00Fidget and BonkLittle sketch of a picture I took
in the car the other day. I was fidgeting with my camera, sneezed, and bonked my nose on
the screen. Happy accident."Fidget and Bonk," oil on primed 140lb. cotton paper, 9" x 12"
$125 USD + shipping/taxes included
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other materials, all while upholding the Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-18057603279053252552020-12-28T17:11:00.002-05:002020-12-28T17:12:37.206-05:00Deep DreamI tried something different with this piece. Firstly, it's oil and only oil, not my usual approach that combines acrylic, collage, spray, and other elements. Secondly, I worked mostly from memory, just once I'd gotten a start with a black and white sketch which I happened, in looking for something fresh, to pass through an AI algorithm. Mostly, I listened to the music of Olafur Arnalds and Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-58447582924627617302020-12-17T10:20:00.008-05:002021-01-11T08:52:44.994-05:00Wings - SOLDAs manga-eyed as they are at times, I try to remind myself that kids aren’t court jesters. They don’t like to be babied and they have x-rays for detecting if you’re talking down or humoring or brushing them off. What they’re after, I think, is what we’re all after: a little adventure, something real and consequential, meaning. To learn in a genuine way. These days I’m not lobbing my Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-45676459948115734342020-11-13T10:04:00.001-05:002020-11-13T10:04:54.815-05:00RampikeSome monoprint experiments using watercolor and acrylic, Yupo paper, and silkscreen. I love trees in all seasons, including exposed, skeletal, dormant in the winter. There's something extra vulnerable about them in this time."Rampike," acrylic and watercolor on Yupo paper, 12" x 9". Variable edition, 1 of 5.
$75 USD + shipping/taxes included
"Rampike," acrylic and watercolor on Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-83367054591081716782020-11-06T14:25:00.007-05:002020-11-06T14:29:02.143-05:00Bullshit Jobs I take the deaths of writers like David Graeber hard. Not only are dupes of the 1 percent and those longing for a Christ Saviour encircling (70 million in the U.S. at last count), but encountering someone with real character or original thinking these days is, it seems, increasingly difficult.Books (mind-altering experiences) go beyond gifts, or mere generosity, and more so when Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-76482462314621664362020-10-27T11:08:00.003-04:002021-01-02T15:46:41.980-05:00A-roving - SOLD "A-roving," mixed media on panel, 24" x 24"
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and not losing anything in the way of colour or vibrancy. * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Check out my website, www.ivanostocco.com, to see more of my work. I'm also onIvano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-81212401869777049642020-10-21T12:39:00.004-04:002020-10-21T13:07:41.169-04:00Rise and Sign“Rise and Sign,” mixed media on panel, 12” x 12”
$225 USD + shipping/taxes included
Last year I did an art show in Las Vegas and stayed, not where everyone goes, near the Strip, but way out, in a real smoky dive with velvet curtains and yellowed mirrors on the ceilings, the sort of place, actually, I enjoy.I only stayed a few nights. But both times I pulled in at dusk, nodded atIvano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-55097289841263813692020-10-07T13:41:00.018-04:002020-10-21T13:07:30.429-04:00When a Tree FallsI’ve been obsessed with trees since the Covid epidemic started.I read a book that argued trees, or rather forests, were higher order beings that like humans, whales, and corvids communicated in a language scientists were beginning to decipher. They didn’t only communicate with other trees in their species, though (akin to the way we pretty much only communicate with other humans), but with other Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-36140947628302303992020-10-07T13:23:00.002-04:002020-10-07T13:23:43.776-04:00Offcut (No. 2) - SOLDSecond in a new series, "Offcuts," made from bits of this and that, trying not to let anything go to waste.
This piece, like the first, is about the colours of the night, and people, just hanging around, enjoying the company of one another.
"Offcut (No. 2)," mixed media on panel, 12" x 12"
$225 + free S&H in North America SOLD
Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-8887580988549772552020-10-06T17:36:00.003-04:002020-10-06T17:37:26.447-04:00Little Kafka (No. 1) “Little Kafka (No. 1),” concrete and acrylic paint, 3” x 3” x 4”PLEASE NOTE:
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and not losing anything in the way of colour or vibrancy. * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Check out my website, www.ivanostocco.com, to see more of Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-34436369104257226412020-10-05T19:42:00.005-04:002020-10-05T19:44:40.459-04:00Birds of America (No. 1)Artists build up and repair perception. They de-blind and de-deaf us to the sensual world. And in so doing they open space for reattachment to life’s vital things, helping us conceive of alternatives to what’s become commonplace and inured.When art works - when reasonable supports for it are around - it isn’t pretty or splashy or cool. It isn’t beholden to church or king (today, politics and the Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-39680760866506410262020-10-05T12:09:00.013-04:002020-10-05T12:17:00.470-04:00The Death of the ArtistI’ve been reading a book a week lately. Last week is was a doozy, William Deresiewicz’s The Death of the Artist: How Creators are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech. It’s not only a must for working artists today, but for everyone who is concerned about culture. It isn’t an easy book. I found I was grinding my teeth, anxious and panicky, but unable to put it down. Ivano Stoccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402380242061132693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954359291727528788.post-47683168633052936112020-09-29T12:12:00.003-04:002020-09-29T14:34:19.985-04:00Offcut (No. 7)This piece is a detail I reworked from a larger painting on a separate panel, mostly in oil this time. We're predating Covid here, of course.“Offcut (No. 7),” mixed media on panel, 12” x 12”
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