I approach painting as a spiritual practice, creating meditative landscape paintings from memory and imagination.These invented landscapes use clouds as protagonists and symbols of impermanence while the land acts as an eternal counterbalance.
Rather than being a recording of a specific place at a particular time of day, the paintings refer to a metaphysical version of 'a place in time’ and are intended to connect the viewer to broad contemplations that simultaneously transcend the temporal world and root into it.
Adriano lives and works in Easton, Pennsylvania. His work is widely collected in private and corporate collections throughout the United States. He has taught drawing, figure drawing, painting, and plein air for over 20 years and now owns and operates StudioWork, where he teaches workshops that balance elemental skill building exercises with intuitive painting practices.
SELECTED CORPORATE COMMISSIONS
Penn State Hospital, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (2021)
Penn State Hospital, Harrisburg / Enola, Pennsylvania (2019/2020)
Victaulic Headquarters Easton, Pennsylvania (2019)
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest, Allentown, Pennsylvania (2014)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Hartley Invitational Exhibition
Salmagundi Club, New York City, New York
2023 Moravian University Faculty Exhibition
Payne Gallery, Moravian University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2018 The Painted Sketch-Solo Exhibition of Plein Air and Studio Sketches
The Kemerer Museum, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2018 Unseasonable Expectations-Art of Weather
NurtureNature Center Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2017 Buyers Market Invitational
Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2017 'For The Time Being' Solo Exhibition
Re:find Gallery on the Art Walk, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2017 'Moving Like Music' Solo Exhibition
to coincide with Gloria Snyder Concert Series
First Presbyterian Church of Allentown Gallery, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2016 Landscapes/Cityscapes The Natural and Manmade -Group Exhibition
Dacia Gallery, New York City, New York
2016 Small Works Exhibition
Elliot Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, California
2015 Plein Air Exhibition Riverside Arts Festival
Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2015 'Equilibria' Solo Exhibition of Recent Paintings
Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2014 Gallery 2908 Winter Group Exhibition,
Gallery 2908 Slatington, Pennsylvania
2013 Area Artist Biennial Invitational
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2013 ‘The Way Home’- Solo Exhibition
Rodale Gallery, Baum School of Art
Allentown, Pennsylvania
2013 Mayfair Invitational Art Exhibit
Agricultural Society Exhibition Space,
Allentown, Pennsylvania
2013 8th Street Bridge Turns 100
The Gallery at Penn State University Lehigh University
Center Valley, Pennsylvania
2013 Art in Place
Atelier Dualis, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2012 'Bardo' Solo Exhibition of Recent Paintings
The Reed Art Gallery, University of Maine at Presque Isle
2012 Faculty Exhibition
David E. Rodale Gallery, Baum School of Art, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2011 The Apollo
Recent Paintings, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2011 Allentown Art Museum
Collectors Event, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2011 Banana Factory Artists Annual
Binney and Smith Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2011 Ethereal Nature-
Heather Sincavage/ Adriano Farinella
Jewish Community Center, Allentown Pennsylvania
2010 More Serious Business
Northampton Community College Fowler Center
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2010 Solo Exhibition
Ward Gallery, Harbor Springs, Michigan
2010 Faculty Exhibition
David E. Rodale Gallery, Baum School of Art
Allentown, Pennsylvania
2010 Banana Factory Artists Annual
Binney and Smith Gallery
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2009 Solo Exhibition
Ward Gallery, Harbor Springs, Michigan
2009 Solo Exhibition
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2009 Allentown Museum Juried Exhibition
Allentown Art Museum, The Crest Gallery
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Curated by Chakaia Booker, James Carroll, Michiko Okaya
2009 Baum School of Art Faculty Exhibition
Rodale Gallery, Baum School of Art
Allentown, Pennsylvania
2009 Featured Artist
The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2008 Banana Factory Annual Artist Exhibition
Binney And Smith Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
E D U C A T I O N
Bachelor of Fine Arts 1993–1998 Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Cambridge Street Atelier-Fall 2013 , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
T E A C H I N G
2022-Present Adjunct Professor of Art, Moravian University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2019- Present StudioWork—Workshops for the Serious Practicing Artist
Easton, Pennsylvania
2004-2019 Figure Drawing, Drawing, Painting Instructor
The Baum School of Art, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2003–2005 Figure Drawing Instructor
Banana Factory, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2009- Guest Lecturer-The Renaissance of Downtown Easton Through the Arts Lehigh Valley Commercial Real Estate Network, Delaware River Canal Museum, Easton,Pennsylvania