Stephen Giannetti,
painter and sculptor.

Born in Northern California, Stephen Giannetti has been creating art most of his life. Over a thirty-year career, Stephen has explored the grid and the circle across painting, drawing, and sculpture.

Early in his career, he pioneered a new mode of approaching the modernist grid. By painting three primary and three secondary colors in a specific pattern to define a set of same-sized circles, Stephen sought to create an engaging visual experience where the act of seeing color is primary. For the past fifteen years, he has adapted his method of hand-painting with traditional oil to the more contemporary application of acrylic spray paint. Using poker chips as a stencil for layering spray paint, he creates an active space where colors mix and shapes fade in and out of view. During the pandemic, Stephen began using poker chips as the building blocks of sculptural forms.