In this new series, Gironi explores the symbolic and emotional charge of domestic spaces. She is merging autobiographical experience with cultural myth and drawing on her lived experience paired with symbolic objects and imagery. Forging connections between the ordinary and the profound, her paintings balance representation and abstraction and delve into psychological archetypes, dreams, and cultural references, weaving together a narrative that is both deeply personal and simultaneously universal.

Depicting objects tied to Mediterranean decorative arts, Gironi invents her own embroidered fabrics, patterned maiolica ceramics, floral arrangements, and terra-cotta female heads in these paintings. Punctuated by bits of hand embroidery, the paintings are formal yet playful. There is a sense of catching a moment: a cat languidly wrapped around a vase, steam rising from a cup of coffee, the sprout of a new plant spreading its leaves. The impermanence of a moment is balanced with the dusky evening or night sky visible through windows in the background. These objects from our lives will change and disappear but the day will turn to night and the morning will come again.

FABIOLA GIRONI was born in Italy and earned her BA in the History of Art at the University Statale of Milan and her Masters in Economics from the University of Bologna. After living in Spain and the UK, she moved to San Francisco, CA where she lived for 8 years before relocating to Southern California. Her painting studies continued under the tutelage of noted painters Jeffrey Watts, Edward Praybe, Alexander Kanevsky, Zoey Frank, and Sangram Majumdar. Gironi divides her time between Milan, Italy, and Los Angeles, California.