Pia Pizzo

Pia Pizzo was born in Italy, moved to California in 1982, and has been exploring the book as an art form since the early 1970s. She limits her palette to three colors: black, red, and white. She also uses gold, copper, and silver leaf to create pages illuminated with her abstract imagery. She has received many awards and fellowships both here and abroad, including an artist of the year award in 1988 from the Public Corporation for the Arts in Long Beach.

On Exhibit

Prayer for Tibet
Long Beach, 1990
Fabric, paper, gold leaf, ink ribbon

"My Non-Books and pages without words or images are focused on the light and shadows created in the empty spaces of their construction. My works are composed with natural light, which causes the pieces to vibrate with color as the light changes ... The sequence of the pages unfolds with kinetic rhythm as you turn the pages, so they become the arena within which to unwind your mind rather than the stage for grasping codified messages."

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