My work is intensely person and alludes to events, sometimes specifically mine. This becomes apparent in works such as Parting Ways or The Way. The former is a metaphor for something that was once whole and broke or became fragmented. The Wayi is the seminal piece of my Ways series, referring to choices or paths in life. The image is metaphorical.
My process is to work directly on the support with no reference except memory or imagination. Unrealistic color is the force that moves the work to imagination and fantasy.
Changes in my work over more than six decades have been driven by an inner need for development rather than dictated by fashion. My work never fir neatly into the mainstream, nor have I been identified as part of a school.
Alberta Cifolelli was an artist honored by the Cleveland Institute of Art as one of 18 Distinguished Alumni in 2017 and in 2018 by the Charles Burchfield award. Documents reflecting her career are at the Smithsonian Archive of American Art https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.cifoalbe.pdf
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