Check out the feature on my solo exhibition, Bodies of Evidence in Pasatiempo, the award-winning arts and culture magazine published by the Santa Fe New Mexicanwww.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/ar…
Duality of Environment and Emotion - ABQ Journal Article
You can read a lovely interview I had with Albuquerque Journal reporter Kathaleen Roberts, about my current exhibition Bodies of Evidence here:www.abqjournal.com/2496714/duality-of-e…
Bodies of Evidence - solo exhibition at the Harwood Art Center
Bodies of EvidenceIn Bodies of Evidence, artist Toni Gentilli amasses a collection of brightly colored textiles, weavings, and watercolor paintings incorporating discarded medical supplies with wildcrafted botanical pigments that are natural blood sugar regulators, respiratory tonics, and antimicrobials, to render visible the imperceptible connections between living beings, metabolic processes, matter, and time.
On view at the Harwood Art Center
April 25 – June 2, 2022Reception & Artist Talk: Saturday May 14, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
For more information and to view the exhibition catalogue visit:
www.harwoodartcenter.org/current-exhibi…
Tree Talk: Artists Speak for Trees
Please join me for an online presentation about my collaboration with living materials from the Middle Rio Grande bosque and cottonwood trees to collapse distinctions between self/other, inner/outer, humans/nature, and to honor the labor of maintaining healthy earth bodies outside the extractive, reductive paradigms of capitalism, patriarchy, and modern medicine.
Thursday, January 27, 2022
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (Mountain Time)
Register Here: ecoartspace.org/event-4611945
Tree Talk is moderated by Sant Khalsa, ecofeminist artist and activist, whose work has focused on critical environmental and societal issues including forests and watersheds for four decades.
Co-sponsored by Joshua Tree Center for Photographic Arts
Adaptive Immunity - solo exhibition at Sanitary Tortilla Factory
Sanitary Tortilla Factory presents, Adaptive Immunity, a solo exhibition by Toni Gentilli that renders the entanglement of human and environmental health, specifically the disproportionate impacts of autoimmunity on women and other chronic conditions linked to ecosystem degradation, through a compendium of naturally dyed textiles, weavings, paintings, sculptures, chlorophyll prints and botanical hydrosols.
October 1st through 30th, 2021
Opening Reception October 1st, 5:00-7:00pm
Viewing Hours Thursdays and Fridays 12:00-5:00pm, or by appointment
Call (505) 228-3749Embodied Forest Online Exhibition & Print Publication
I am proud to announce that my work is included in Embodied Forest, and online exhibition and print publication produced by ecoartspace.
From Lilian Fraiji, Juror:
To understand our place within nature as part of the whole is an eminently social and existential matter. The environmental crisis and the frequency of natural disasters we have experienced last decades, including the pandemic tragedy, which in essence was caused by an ecological imbalance, indicates the urgency for a different logic of conceiving, interacting and projecting the natural world. The artistic community and its ability to expand the social mind have an essential role in creating a new value system concerning the environment, which breaks through modern anthropocentrism and the antagonism between nature and culture.
Coexisting, interacting and exchanging energy with other organisms and natural phenomena is the basis for developing the artistic works presented in Embodied Forest. From the sensitive to the rational, these works contain an effervescence of processes, poetic materials and techniques that reframe Forest in a set of plural languages. These cultural processes unfold nature by using knowledge and poetic freedom to help understand ecology in the Anthropocene and generate new sensibilities to an ethical relation to nature.
View the exhibition here:
ecoartspace.org/Embodied-ForestEcology of Healing - solo exhibition at Vital Spaces Midtown Annex
Saturday March 6 through Sunday April 4, 2021
Vital Spaces Midtown Annex
www.vitalspaces.org/exhibitions/2021/2/…Ecology of Healing is an immersive mixed media installation that honors plants for creating a nourishing world habitable by humans and celebrates the entwinement of our wellbeing. The installation combines wildcrafted botanical pigments, leaves, bark, branches, seeds and pollen sustainably harvested from Rio Grande cottonwood trees, and lovingly transformed into weavings, paintings, sculptures, and fugitive photographs.
Through this work, artist Toni Gentilli explores notions of vulnerability, illness, imbalance, exhaustion, resilience, regeneration, harmony, and vitality from an ecological perspective and her embodied experience as a woman living with multiple autoimmune conditions for over 35 years. By employing labor intensive processes and natural materials imbued with life forces of their own, Toni hopes to bring awareness to the invisible labor of plants in supporting human health and the emotional labor of managing chronic illness, while reflecting the strength in fragility, beauty in decay, and natural cycles of transformation.
Online Exhibition - January 4 to February 4, 2021Honored to be included in the Lucid Art Foundation
Alumni Artist-in-Residence Exhibition.www.lucidart.org/online-gallery
I'm on Instagram (finally)!!!
To say the least, 2020 has been a wild ride,
and for better or for worse, I took the plunge
back into social media.Follow me @phytomorphologie
to peek inside my process, studio, latest work,
musings and adventures.www.instagram.com/phytomorphologie/
Interview with Stacia Yepanis - 2018
Check out this great conversation for a deep dive into some of the inspiration and research that informs my latest work.
blog.otherpeoplespixels.com/otherpeople…
Harnessing the Magic of Nature
Workshop at the Berkeley Art Center
June 19, 2016
12:00 to 3:00 pmRegister here:
www.berkeleyartcenter.org/#/adult-class…New Interview on Healthline.com
My good friend, studiomate, and fellow artist living with
Type 1 diabetes Justus Harris and I talk about connections between
art, science, health and creative data visualization.www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/diabete…
Alternative Exposure Grant Round 9 Recipient
I am absolutely thrilled (!!!) to have been selected as one of sixteen recipients of the 2016 Alternative Exposure Grant from Southern Exposure.
This generous financial gift will help fund my curatorial projects in the Studio Artist Gallery at the Compound in Oakland, CA and foster the creative and professional growth of the more than 60 local visual artists who work there.
The money will contribute directly to physical improvements of the existing gallery space and honoraria for participating artists. It will also help to generate increased exposure for studio artists' work through public exhibitions, printed announcement cards, and an annual full-color exhibit catalog.
To find out more, visit:
Just published!
You can read an in-depth interview with
insightful and talented fellow artist
Mary Burger about my current work
on her blog, Articiple.articiple.com/2015/05/09/toni-gentilli/
Artist Residencies - Summer 2015
I am thrilled to be an artist in residence at two wonderful programs in Northern California this summer.
In June, as part of the Lucid Art Foundation Artist Residency, I will spend three weeks in the Bishop Pine Preserve outside of Inverness creating a new body of camera-less abstract work using plants from a pigment garden and the surrounding countryside.
www.lucidart.org/index.php?p=Residency
In late July and early August I will spend three weeks amidst the winery and adjacent Russian River on the Warnecke Ranch in Sonoma County as part of the Chalk Hill Artist Residency. Here I will explore the natural landscape through historic and contemporary romantic tropes generated by reflection and simulation in analog and digital technological devices.
chalkhillresidency.com/congratulations-…
Breaking Illusion: Artist as Scientist
Curated by Conchi Sanford
University of La Verne
College of Law Art Gallery
Ontario, CAOn view from
February 24 - May 20, 2015For more information, please visit:
law.laverne.edu/news/art-gallery-exhibi…
Opening Reception:
thespot.laverne.edu/s/1636/interior-hyb…
Cyanotype Workshop at the Berkeley Art Center
Saturday February 28, 2015
12:00 - 3:00 pmI'll be teaching a beginning workshop on how to contact print with cyanotype in the sun. All materials provided.
Free to the public! Family-friendly event! Print your own t-shirt!
www.berkeleyartcenter.org/#/public-prog…
Artist Panel at the Compound
Click the link below to see me talk about a current project, Mimesis,
during the closing reception for our annual studio artists group exhibition.youtu.be/WR7QBnfuK8M?list=UU-dV_htxbaBB…
Alternative Processes with Juror Christopher James
On view:
October 3 - November 1, 2014
at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, COFor more details and images, visit their website:
COMPOUNDAGANZA!!!
I have 12 new pieces from the Mimesis Series in the annual Compound Gallery and Studios group show.
I'll also have my portable walk-in camera obscura up for the opening reception. Come check it out!
June 28 - August 3, 2014
The Compound Gallery
Reception: Saturday June 28, 2014 from 6 - 9 pmBerkeley Civic Center Art Exhibition
I have four pieces in this year's Berkeley Civic Center Art Exhibition; three from the Transmutation Series and one from the Stream of Consciousness Series.
My work was selected by a panel of jurors including Aimee Le Duc, Executive Director of the Berkeley Art Center, Archana Horsting, Executive Director and Co-founder of Kala Art Institute, and independent curator Demetri Broxton.
The show will be up for a year with a public reception to be held some time this fall. Check back later for more details! In the meantime, you can see the work by all of the artists at the link below.
Origins of Photography
Visit the link below to sign up for my all-ages / hands-on photography workshop
May 3, 2014
at the
Berkeley Art CenterLight Sensitive - 2014
A national juried exhibition celebrating work from the darkroom
Juror: Tom Persinger - Photographer, Writer, and Founder of F295
On view at
Art Intersection - Gilbert, AZ
March 3 - April 28, 2012For more info and images go to:
"Colloquy" - now online
The Archaeology of Photography: Toni Gentilli
You can read my interview with Louis Vargas (pages 48-56) here:
San Francisco Chronicle
Mention of my work in Kenneth Baker's article:
"Weston Teruya: Sole juror for 'Feature' show"
Feature
Juror: Weston Teruya- Artist and Independent Curator
On view at the
Berkeley Art Center
January 16 - March 2, 2014For more information and images please visit:
Array: Artists Annual Exhibition
On view at the
Berkeley Art Center
December 5, 2013 - January 5, 2014For more information visit:
Inventing Perspective: 2013 Photography Exhibition
Juror: Corey Keller- Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
On view at
LH Horton Junior Gallery - San Joaquin Delta College
Stockton, CA
November 21 - December 13, 2013For more information and images visit:
San Francisco Chronicle
Read a review by Nellie Bowles of the show Text Message, which I curated at The Compound in Oakland.
Photo Feature in SF Art Enthusiast
Images 19 and 20 feature my work in Currency, SFAI's 2013 MFA graduate exhibition at the Old Mint in San Francisco.
Squarecylinder - Review by David M. Roth
"Currency" - SFAI's MFA Show @ The Old Mint
"Toni Gentilli’s camera-less photos, part of a growing move toward antiquarian methods, are examples of an even older technology: alchemy. The artist swabs blood, insulin, sugar and light-sensitive chemicals onto microscope slides and exposes them to sunlight to form crystalline formations; these she places in an enlarger to create silver gelatin prints with the stated goal of visualizing “genetic mutation and autoimmune disease.” Subsequent toning of the prints with copper or gold chloride effects the “alchemical conversion of metals,” which the artist points out, was once thought to be capable of producing “a universal elixir that would cure illness and prolong life.” Situated in one of the building’s upstairs vaults, they felt as otherworldly as cellular activity viewed through a microscope."
Interview with KQED Pop
"Meet the MFA Grads Who Make Us Believe in Art Again."
Watch a short video interview with KQED Pop about my recent work Ouroboros and Transmutation, on view during my MFA graduate exhibition at the Old Mint in San Francisco through May 19th, 2013.
Currency
San Francisco Art Institute 2013 MFA Catalogue
You can view my work on page 43 and on page 140,
you can read about an exhibition I curated at the Diego Rivera Gallery titled,
Then and Now: Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, 1945-2013.Light Sensitive - 2013
A national juried exhibition celebrating work from the darkroom
Juror: Katherine Ware - Curator of Photography, New Mexico Museum of Art
On view at
Art Intersection - Gilbert, AZ
March 16 - April 23, 2013For more info and images go to:
Then & Now: Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, 1945-2013
Curated by Toni Gentilli
On view at
The Diego Rivera Gallery - San Francisco Art Institute
October 21 - 27, 2012For more info go to:
Toni Gentilli in the Admiral Dot Miniature Gallery
I have a solo show in the smallest gallery in the west!
On view at The Compound Gallery and Studios
October 6th through November 4th, 2012Photo Feature in SF Art Enthusiast
SFAI Open Studios - Spring 2012
Check out Images 29-32 at the link below for a peek at some of my recent work, including a limited edition handmade artist book titled, Blueprints for a Desert Garden, and an installation piece called Infra-structure, comprised of 14 12"x18" cyanotype prints on wood panels.
Light Sensitive - 2012
A national juried exhibition celebrating work from the darkroom
Juror: Rebecca Senf - Norton Family Curator, Center for Creative Photography
On view at
Art Intersection - Gilbert, AZ
March 3 - April 28, 2012For more info and images go to:
Out of Gamut: Expanding Photography in Contemporary Practice with Hybrid Processes
Curated by Toni Gentilli
On View at
The Diego Rivera Gallery - San Francisco Art Institute
February 12 - 18, 2012
