A subscriber sees work advertised in American Art Collector and buys it outright after receiving the magazine.
“A collector in California immediately called us the day she received her November issue of American Art Collector magazine to purchase Vincent Giarrano’s Julie Smoking that we advertised in the magazine,” recalls Susan Powell, owner of Susan Powell Fine Art in Madison, Connecticut.
American Art Collector featured a preview of Giarrano’s November show at Susan Powell Fine Art, and his piece Red Façade was ultimately selected for the cover of that issue.
About the buyer, Powell continues, “She has collected Vincent Giarrano’s paintings from us since 2010, when she first purchased one of his paintings of a girl reading in front of a shop window titled Lost in Thought. She loved the painting Julie Smoking at first look and looks forward to receiving the magazine monthly, as she still doesn’t own a computer and relies on print advertising.”
Giarrano’s paintings of New York are suggested narratives, moments in the lives of young women making their lives amidst the millions of others making theirs. In an interview with American Art Collector, he said, “What I love about the city is that it is constantly changing, always evolving, providing endless inspiration.”
“I particularly like the impasto, or build-up of paint which gives more dimension,” says the collector of the piece she bought. “You can’t see this in the photo. The subject is very historical. I watch old movies where everyone smokes. Today, everyone gets upset if someone is smoking, and Julie (in the painting) has to smoke in a gritty, dangerous area.”
Giarrano says, “I’ve been painting friends in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and exploring what I feel are very contemporary portraits or scenes of city life. This painting is of fellow artist Julie Severino, just having a daily moment on a city street. I love gritty architecture and how it becomes like an abstract element for the painting.” —
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