Chiachio & Giannone
(Argentina, Leo Chiachio - 1969; Daniel Giannone - 1964)
Leo Chiachio and Daniel Giannone are an artist duo who were both trained as painters, but now work and live together as one to create hand embroidery and textile mosaics as they “paint with needles”. Their embroidery is a celebration and redefinition of the traditional family portrait, using themselves and their dogs as subjects. They find new, imaginative, and expressive ways of depicting themselves, filled with humor, the fantastical, and the archive of art history.
Chiachio & Giannone recently completed a residency at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA and have shown at Chamber Gallery, New York, NY; Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL; the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; and the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. They have also shown extensively allover the world, including Argentina, China, France, Italy, Mexico, the Philippines,United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
