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"Painter with an Anecdote"

About the Artist

Born in Genoa, Italy, Gabriella Di XX Miglia received her art education at the Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa doing studies with Rocco Borella and Mimmo Rotella, then for three years continued her training under Guido Chiti and Palma Viardo. Later she received her Masters Degree in Art Restoration and Conservation. In addition she took many speciality art courses and workshop in USA with special attention to textile art, fashion design and jewelry design and founded a jewerly design company, Gdixxmiglia.com. She continues her education in art by observing and studying the paintings of the Old Masters in art galleries through the world.

Gabriella's works have been shown annually in both national and international shows. She was featured on 1984 in The Los Angeles Times, Sunday Home Magazine.

Her paintings are in the collections of private, corporate and public sectors as H.M. Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands

Dr. Franklin Murphy (Leader in art and publishing; chief of Times Mirror Publishing, chairman of The Nat. Gallery of Art, Washington)

Richard Colburn ( Colburn School of Music) Los Angeles.

Marcia Simon Weisman (supporter of major Art Museum in Los Angeles)

Betty Freeman (philanthropist, art patron) Los Angeles

Eric and Leza Lidow (trustee of LACMA) Los Angeles.

Stephen Garrett ( Director of Getty Museum) Malibu

Nicholas Boratynski ( Founder of Tetra Tech) Pasadena

Paola Masino (Italian writer)

Ambassador Alvise Memmo (Italian Minister of Protocol). Cedar-Sinai Med. Center. Los Angeles

UCLA Med. Plaza. Los Angeles,

Palazzo Braschi, Museo di Roma, Rome, Italy

Prefettura di Siena, Italy

Church of San Siro, Nervi, Genova, Italy.

Her name appeared in 1979 in The National Catalogue of Italian Modern Art and is listed in many National and International Art Directories.

She is a member of The Portrait Society of America and PoetsArtists.

Gabriella is a recipient of numerous awards including the Nomination for Guggenheim Fellowship, New York.,

Selected to judge The Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Art Contest, County of Los Angeles, California.

Certificate of Commendation by the County of

Los Angeles Board of Supervisors C.C.Q.C. Committee for the Arts, Ca.

Fellowship from Italian Government with SCI Best Designer Award for Master Fashion Course at FIDM, Los Angeles, Ca.

She was selected by The Italian American Columbus Foundation to create evocative portraits of Christopher Columbus and his men for the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of America.

Di XX Miglia worked for over a decade for bublic and private sectors as a conservator and restorer in Italy and USA. Her knowledge of medieval and renaissance paint techniques has led her to be a better artist.

Gabriella takes pride in being part of a family of artists such as her mother, a fine china painter, her grandmother, a violinist and author, her uncle, Alessandro Casagrande, a pianist and composer, and her great uncle Alessandro Lupo, a very accomplished postimpressionist painter and protege’ of Emile Bernard.

She lives and works in Los Angeles.

"When I see a color or a form that is interesting to me, I keep it in my eyes. When I hear a music, a sound that makes me deeply emotional, I keep it in my ears. When I smell a scent, a perfume that inebriates me, I keep it in my nose. When I feel a sensation that touches my heart I keep it in my soul. When I fear, I love, I laugh, I weep for what I see, I touch, I hear, I smell, I feel... I put all these emotional fervors in an ecstatic intimacy with my feelings until I paint as a release of all my visions and sensations." GDXXM

I love to paint everything that catches my eye and imagination: landscapes, places, streets, people, simple still lives and female forms. This variety of subjects is probably influenced by the academic education I received in Italy. It would be boring to paint the same things all the time just to be accepted by commercial art galleries. My biggest interest is in portraiture. I like to paint people whom I love or who draws my attention, interesting people. A particular painting reflects my mood and a spontaneous outpouring of emotions that occurs at the moment when I work with a sitter. This magical process is very exciting for me. I paint not a person but a time and state of mind.

My Medium

Gabriella paints a variety of subjects using different media, she pushes herself even more working on sculpture and designing jewelry and fashion. Her ultimate satisfaction comes from continually inventing, stretching and improving herself. Her search for new ideas, new methods, new techniques is a never ending quest as an artist.

"The Flowers of The Zodiac""

In 1983 Gabriella opened her painting studio in Los Angeles. Esther Robles, a pioneer in California modern art , organized and hosted Gabriella Di XX Miglia first personal exhibit in USA .

"Gabriella Di XX Miglia signs of the Zodiac belongs to my favorite day- the Day of the Hearts. This new series reveals a prismatic survey of the flowers of the Zodiac, each an intimate portrait of blooms from her garden representing the buds and flowers of each succeeding month of the year in a creative gesture of the cycles of the season.

Gabriella is a many faceted artist with a background of several years of successful exhibitions in Italy in portraits, landscapes and fantasies of surreal lineage. Her multi-disciplined, inward looking approach and perspective ensures that each work of art is a poetic narrative, intimate and transcendental. In her paintings we find a perennial search for balance between all the elements that compose them, form, material, color, lines. There is a special harmonious conjugation between line and color."

Esther Waggoner Robles, ASA Director, Esther Robles Gallery

I see with my soul, not with my eyes

A dimension of absolute artistic freedom and moral independence generates my excitement! I paint what I want, when I want it and how I want it. Painting is my fundamental goal in life.

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Art Directories and Publications

National Catalog of Modern Art, Turin, Italy, 1974-1978

National Catalog of Modern Art, Milan, Italy, 1986-91

Pittori e Pittura Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 1975

Il Chi E` dell’Arte Italiana dell’ Ottocento e Novecento 1993

Annuario Comanducci, Milan, Italy, 1978-1979

The World Who’sWho of Women, 1988-1990

Marquis Who’sWho of American Women, 1998-2011

Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2000-2014

Marquis Who’s Who in the West, 1998-2001

Who’s Who in Italy, 1994

Marquis Who’s Who in California, 1986

Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 1999-2007

Madison Who’s Who, 2004

International Who’ Who of Professional and Business

Women, 1988

Foremost Women of XX Th. Century, 1986

Dictionary of International Biography, 1986-2000

The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, 1986

Five Thousand Personalities of the World, 1986

Two Thousand Notable Americans, 1987

Personalities of the Americas, 1987

Outstanding People of the 20th Century, 1999, 2000

2000 outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th century, 2000

2000 outstanding Women of the 20th Century, 2001

International Women Artists, volume 2, 2001

NAPW (National Association of Professional Women), 2009-2012

International Artists, Vol.2 ICA Publishing, NY US, 2011

Pittori del Novecento e carte da gioco, Palombi Editori, 2016

Recent Contest Publications

Circle Foundation of The Arts, Quarterly Art Review, 6th issue 2021, France

CFA, Spotlight Magazine, 25th issue 2021, France

Artistonish Magazine, July 2021 Canada

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Events/Awards

Sculpture to Wear and SNAG Society

Sculpture to Wear, Laguna Beach, California Portraits of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Favorite Collars and the Stories Behind Them, virtual exhibition 2020, SNAG National Conference June 24th 2021

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CFA, "Spectrum Brooklin New York Art Fair", September 2021. "Distinction of Artistic Excellent"

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Recent Juries Group Exhibitions

Exhibizione," Diversia: People" online, July 2021

Dab Art Co. Galleries, los Angeles and ARTSY

"Art in the Time of Corona" 2021-23

December 2017/ April 2018

Palazzo Bufalini, Spoleto, Italy

."Il Gioco della Pittura" .

La Collezione di carte dipinte.

December 2016/ April 2017

Palazzo Braschi, Museo di Roma, Italy.

"Pittori del '900 e Carte da Gioco"

"Painter with an Anecdote"

"Painter with an Anecdote"

Welcome

About the Artist

My Medium

"The Flowers of The Zodiac""

I see with my soul, not with my eyes

Art Directories and Publications

Recent Contest Publications

Events/Awards

Recent Juries Group Exhibitions

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