Gianluca Bianchino

His multi-media installations are a mix of repurposed materials, projected imagery, cast light, shadows and drawing which create three-dimensional illusions that play with the physical space of the gallery.

[1] His installations reside in spaces in which he considers the walls to be large, flat canvases upon which he adds textures in the form of tripods, lenses, telescopes, umbrellas, solar panels and lighting equipment.

[5][6] As a teen Gianluca Bianchino attended the Instituto per Geometra Oscar D'Agostino, an architectural magnet school in his home in Avellino before relocating back to the United States.

During his time studying in Jersey City, his mentor Ben F. Jones, was instrumental in his artistic development, challenging him to engage in experimental art-making approaches with a political bent.

[8] In transitioning from painting to multi-media work, Bianchino was a video production assistant for Robert Whitman's "Passport" conceived for the 500 seat Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University.

It was during his MFA at Montclair that he began focusing his attention from pure painting in oil on canvas to his current multi-media sculptural practice which integrates notions related to shifting space, ordered chaos and string theory which he attempts to explain visually.