M.I.A.R.
In 2023, the Chicago Fine Art Salon launched MIAR for the community artists we love, to exhibit and sell their creations to Chicago art enthusiasts at Art City in Lincoln Park and on our website. Browse through our past installations or explore our collection of exquisite wall art available for purchase below.
Elise is extremely proud of her heritage and family. As a child, Elise spent significant time with family in Giulianova, exploring her interest in storytelling, antiquity and having fun. This period of her early life was of great influence, later obtaining Italian citizenship in 2021. In July of 2023, Elise was able to travel to Naples Italy and live in the countryside in a small town named Fusaro she lived in isolation and worked on developing a lexicon of language. This passion for art was inspired at a young age, receiving lessons from her Grandfather, artist Walter "Fred" Von Gruenigen, as a child, and attending programs at The Cleveland Institute of Art.
Elise Bagnoli views her work as cathartic release- using surrealist language and metaphor to further explore themes about identity, esotericism, girlhood and realm between the physical and non-physical worlds. Elise views herself as a storyteller and an identifier of patterns. Constantly making attempts to identify the invisible thread that unites all things, trying to gain access to the synchronicities that bind us.
Now Presenting:
Elise Blair Bagnoli’s “Lovecraftian Sentimentality”
Elise Blair Bagnoli (b.1998) is an American Italian artist who uses her work as a way to navigate her subconscious. Using atmospheric qualities, she allows mythos and reality to seep into one. Using architecture and abstract portraiture to reference the self, she activates these tools in order to digest the observable world. Elise has spent time researching concepts revolving around philosophy, mythology and therapy based meditation in order to help progress the work and to better understand herself- her artistic and life practices mirror themselves, for the process of making art isn’t one out of pleasure but out of necessity. They make art to survive and understand.