ABOUT THE ARTIST
Photo taken during the reception of "Architecture For Spaces Unknown" at the Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ on March 26, 2023.
AnnaCarina Sinocchi was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1970. She earned both a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (1993) and a Master of Fine Arts degree (2013) from William Paterson University located in Wayne, New Jersey.
Her artwork has been featured in both solo and group shows in galleries and museums, including: the Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ; the Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY; Noho M55 Gallery, New York, NY; The Salmagundi Club, New York, NY; Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; The Passaic County Arts Center at the John Rea House, Hawthorne, NJ; Castell Gallery, Ashville, NC; Impact Gallery, Buffalo, NY; and the Boyd Realty Group Gallery, Richmond, VA.
Sinocchi’s work has been reviewed by New York City art critic, Jonathan Goodman, Dan Bischoff of the Newark Star Ledger and William Zimmer of the New York Times. In 2008 Associated Press reporter Brad Haynes’s review of her work was circulated globally in U.S.A. Today, The International Herald Tribune, and The China Post.
In 2009, AnnaCarina was an artist in residence at Peters Valley, Layton, NJ, with the support of a Geraldine R. Dodge grant. In addition, her work is included in both private and public collections, including NJ Congressman, Bill Pascrell, The Paterson Museum, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, and The Newark Public Library.
Catalogues of her work are housed in the libraries of Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY and Conway Hall Ethical Society, London, United Kingdom.
AnnaCarina Sinocchi continues her fine art practice and is a professor at William Paterson University.
Her artwork has been featured in both solo and group shows in galleries and museums, including: the Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ; the Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY; Noho M55 Gallery, New York, NY; The Salmagundi Club, New York, NY; Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; The Passaic County Arts Center at the John Rea House, Hawthorne, NJ; Castell Gallery, Ashville, NC; Impact Gallery, Buffalo, NY; and the Boyd Realty Group Gallery, Richmond, VA.
Sinocchi’s work has been reviewed by New York City art critic, Jonathan Goodman, Dan Bischoff of the Newark Star Ledger and William Zimmer of the New York Times. In 2008 Associated Press reporter Brad Haynes’s review of her work was circulated globally in U.S.A. Today, The International Herald Tribune, and The China Post.
In 2009, AnnaCarina was an artist in residence at Peters Valley, Layton, NJ, with the support of a Geraldine R. Dodge grant. In addition, her work is included in both private and public collections, including NJ Congressman, Bill Pascrell, The Paterson Museum, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, and The Newark Public Library.
Catalogues of her work are housed in the libraries of Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY and Conway Hall Ethical Society, London, United Kingdom.
AnnaCarina Sinocchi continues her fine art practice and is a professor at William Paterson University.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION : Honored to be included in this show amongst Paterson visual artists. PATERSON. ART & THE MILLS. F. DUIGNAN & NEIGHBORS Exhibition: May 11- July 31, 2026. Reception: Saturday, May 16, 1-4 pm. Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ 2 Market St, Paterson, NJ 07501 Phone : (973) 321-1260 Conversation with curator & artists at 2:30 pm.
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'Paterson Mind', 1989, by Fred Duignan.
Oil & house paint on canvas 60 x 42 inches.
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Portrait of Paterson poet, Mike Reardon, 1986 by Fred Duignan. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 32 x 20 inches.
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'The Spirit Continues' 2002, by Fred Duignan. Oil on canvas, 49 x 42 inches.
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The PATERSON Museum
2 Market Place, Paterson, NJ. 07501. (973) 321-1260
PATERSON. ART & THE MILLS. F. DUIGNAN & NEIGHBORS curated by Sara Lynn Henry.
Exhibition, May 11- July 31, 2026.
Reception, Saturday, May 16, 1-4pm.
Conversation with Curator & artists, 2:30 pm
In 1983, Paterson initiated subsidized housing for artists in two old abandoned mills in the newly designated Great Falls / SUM Historic District. These two, former silk mills were among many empty factory buildings in the district that had once manufactured a variety of products including locomotives, guns, and especially silk and cotton textiles. In the 1980s all types of artists were invited to apply to live in the new housing—painters, musicians, poets, photographers, and arts workers with the hopes of establishing a creative community and a shop and gallery center.
Paterson: Art & the Mills- F. Duignan & Neighbors focuses on the visual artists who lived in the refurbished mills from the 1980s to the early 2000s and some who still live there today. This exhibition asks what artist housing does for the artists and what it can, or sometimes cannot, do for the community. This heterogeneous group of art makers shared this housing, the neighborhood, and engaged in a raucous, creative interaction. The work and role of painter Fred Duignan acts as an anchor for the show with his expressive views of the mills, the Great Falls, and his portraits of many of the early artist residents. Duignan also played an occasional role as organizer of exhibitions and tenuous connections to New York City. Many of the core artists are here in this exhibition. Their work gives an idea of the breaking of creative boundaries fostered by this unorthodox community and period. One finds crossovers of painting, sculpture, creative photography with poetry, music, technology, and the probing of the industrial and social/political realities. There is the darkness and light, conscious and deep unconscious, and urban realities of this raw, energetic place. The artists offered to the neighborhood and to the broader city artistic outreach, critical investigations, teachers, local characters, and books of photography which show the changing, deteriorating historic roots of Paterson. Not quite a new Soho but a new ragged, significant energy center developed.
2 Market Place, Paterson, NJ. 07501. (973) 321-1260
PATERSON. ART & THE MILLS. F. DUIGNAN & NEIGHBORS curated by Sara Lynn Henry.
Exhibition, May 11- July 31, 2026.
Reception, Saturday, May 16, 1-4pm.
Conversation with Curator & artists, 2:30 pm
In 1983, Paterson initiated subsidized housing for artists in two old abandoned mills in the newly designated Great Falls / SUM Historic District. These two, former silk mills were among many empty factory buildings in the district that had once manufactured a variety of products including locomotives, guns, and especially silk and cotton textiles. In the 1980s all types of artists were invited to apply to live in the new housing—painters, musicians, poets, photographers, and arts workers with the hopes of establishing a creative community and a shop and gallery center.
Paterson: Art & the Mills- F. Duignan & Neighbors focuses on the visual artists who lived in the refurbished mills from the 1980s to the early 2000s and some who still live there today. This exhibition asks what artist housing does for the artists and what it can, or sometimes cannot, do for the community. This heterogeneous group of art makers shared this housing, the neighborhood, and engaged in a raucous, creative interaction. The work and role of painter Fred Duignan acts as an anchor for the show with his expressive views of the mills, the Great Falls, and his portraits of many of the early artist residents. Duignan also played an occasional role as organizer of exhibitions and tenuous connections to New York City. Many of the core artists are here in this exhibition. Their work gives an idea of the breaking of creative boundaries fostered by this unorthodox community and period. One finds crossovers of painting, sculpture, creative photography with poetry, music, technology, and the probing of the industrial and social/political realities. There is the darkness and light, conscious and deep unconscious, and urban realities of this raw, energetic place. The artists offered to the neighborhood and to the broader city artistic outreach, critical investigations, teachers, local characters, and books of photography which show the changing, deteriorating historic roots of Paterson. Not quite a new Soho but a new ragged, significant energy center developed.
The Key to C (A Journey through Cancer) The following is an impromptu interview conducted between myself and longtime friend/artist, Fred Duignan. The interview highlights his works (past and present),home, important people in his life and his connection to the divine. The interview was conducted on Saturday, June 2, 2023 in Woodstock, NY. Fred passed away one week later on Saturday June 10, 2023. Video compiled and edited by Paterson filmmaker, Alan Rowe Kelly.
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Current Works Mixed Media
Various mixed media works seamlessly integrating methods of alternative photography with painting.
Various mixed media works seamlessly integrating methods of alternative photography with painting.
- Roman Arch
- Roman Arch on paper
- Passages
- Passages on paper
- Architecture For Spaces Unknown
- Photograms and Cyanotype Photograms
- Directorial Mode Photography Constructed staged sets/events for the purpose of image making.
past exhibition
interview
PERSONAL INTERVIEW about myself as an artist, which piece of work
I most identify with, the boundaries of art, as well as women's self
reliance and independence. Interview was directed by Spencer Kreil
at Passaic County Community College April, 2022.
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