ARTIST STATEMENT

Anita Giancola is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, installation, coded art, sculpture, and video. Her abstract works explore connections and patterns in programmed reality, layering visual and media arts to examine how we assign meaning to the world around us.

Drawing from geometry, psychology, and philosophy, her work encourages contemplation—challenging viewers to recognize the hidden structures shaping perception. Themes of birth and death, influenced by personal experiences of loss, emerge subtly throughout her practice.

Born in Canada to Italian immigrant parents, Giancola carries a deep connection to Italian aesthetics, shaped by both heritage and years of working in Italy. Her practice engages with traditional abstraction and design while incorporating materials like plastic—an emblem of the contemporary physical world—questioning the programmed structures of religious and cultural institutions that have shaped her perspective. By updating visual cues historically tied to faith, she prompts reflection on belief systems, identity, and the unseen forces influencing our understanding of reality.

Giancola studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and is currently based in Newmarket, Ontario. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and cultural spaces across the Greater Toronto Area, including Carrier Gallery, Hummingbird Centre, Indigo Café, Serpa Gallery, Art Quarters Gallery, Super Wonder Gallery, 918 Bathurst, and Artscape.

Alongside her fine art practice, Giancola’s design work extends into textiles, wallpaper, and graphic design. Bang Design, her creative studio, offers a selection of artist-designed goods and collaborations in motion graphics, video, and installation.