IN THE ANNEX: July 2023

Jillian Lauren Lisitano + Liliana Marquez + Daniel Szabo

6/29–7/23, 2023

SoWa First Friday Art Walk: Friday, July 7, 2023, | 5:00–8:00 PM

Jillian Lauren Lisitano, Liliana Marquez, and Daniel Szabo make the abstract tangible, each in their own way. Their works serve as metaphors. Szabo sees photography as an open-ended process, much like a spoken word story. Marquez expresses the rationality of design through her sculptural forms. Lisitano transforms ancestral memories into colors and forms.

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Jillian Lauren Lisitano

Lisitano.Combattere Attraverso il Blues Ceruleo (fighting thru the cerulean blues)2022.mixed media on canvas.36x48in.$1600.jpeg

Lisitano.Allegoria della Gioia (allegory of joy)2022.mixed media on canvas.48x48in.$1900.jpeg

Lisitano.Cieli Notturni e Sogni di Te (night skies and dreams of you).2020.mixed media on canvas.36x36in.$1500.jpeg

Lisitano.La Fine Delle Rose (the end of the roses), 2021.mixed media on canvas.36 x 48 in.$1300.jpeg

Jillian Lauren Lisitano is a Vermont-based painter focusing on Abstraction and Expressionism. Feeling and emotion play an essential role in her paintings, and they are visible when viewing her canvases. Throughout her oeuvre, we see a thread of nostalgia for her time in Northern Italy and her Sicilian ancestry. The legacy of her paintings was born centuries before she was. It is deeply embedded in her DNA and can be traced back generations to her Sicilian ancestors. Her driving force as a painter comes from a rich and diverse familial and cultural history that is both known and unknown.

The layers, strokes, and color that she places on her canvas are abstract interpretations of the ancestral memories that she has collected, like souvenirs throughout her life. Sometimes, these memories are intense, clear, and vibrant, while others are hazy, fluid, and dreamlike. The progression of turning her most precious memories into paintings for others to connect with and interpret in their way is one of her most profound personal achievements. May these works open a portal, sharing a morsel of Lisitano’s vulnerability with you.

Lisitano works in acrylic, oil, pastels, pencil, and graphite. Currently she is an MFA candidate at Northern Vermont University. She has had work included in many group shows in the Vermont area. She was awarded a residency and fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.

Liliana Marquez

Liliana Marquez, aka. "lilimarq”, explains her philosophy of art by saying, “We live in a mass production era where we have a wonderful world full of extra material, so I decided to incorporate as much re-claimed and surplus materials as possible in all my designs... I called it RE POP ART.” She has great satisfaction in transforming surplus and discarded materials into art, and she receives even more pleasure when she sees the smiles from those who enjoy her work.”

Mainly focused on working in 3D , Marquez designs lamps, furniture and produces art to create an inspiring message of life, hope, and positive energy. She also works performing creative workshops for young children in local schools to help them explore language, structure, shape, color, and their own unique qualities through our "learning by doing" process. These workshops highly encourage children to use recycled materials while creatively repurposing them to create small sculptures.

Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, her mother encouraged her to express herself through art in a fun, creative, and multicultural environment full of music, dance, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and painting. She has a BA in Art and Graphic Design from the prestigious Caracas Institute of Design in Venezuela. Liliana Marquez has been a resident of Boston MA since 1998. She has a studio where she designs, creates, and sells her work in Stoughton, MA 02072.

Daniel Szabo

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Daniel Szabo is experienced as a photographer, but uses the medium as a starting place rather than an ending. His images begin as everyday views of what’s around him and are then transformed in a process that stretches and changes them. This stretching and changing reflects his exploration into how we see – both physically and neurologically. A long struggle to maintain eyesight, which has often been in flux, motivates him to explore multiple kinds of vision. The resulting work also concerns the intersection of internal and external space, the felt with the seen. The photographic paintings interweave memory, vision, and imagination. With these elements Dan often depicts forces in opposition, a contest between structure and entropy.

Szabo’s education includes a B.S.in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In changing careers from engineering to photography, he began his studies at the Art Institute of Boston. He later earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) while working as an admissions counselor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) in Boston. He currently works full-time at MassArt as the Director of Advising Services. His work has been shown at MICA, Goucher College, MassArt, and the Bromfield Gallery in Boston. His studio is located in his home in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.