[1] Giolitti's paintings are predominantly abstract works which are composed in layers that she simultaneously builds up and strips away.
[2] Giolitti is also the owner and director of Mayer Fine Art in Norfolk, VA.[3][4] She is represented by Jankossen Contemporary in Basel, Switzerland and Adah Rose Gallery in the Washington, D.C., area.
"[5] Giolitti was born in Florida, raised in Italy and she studied art at Middlesex University, London, England (BFA), 1981–83 and at Mid Warwick College, Leamington Spa, England, (1978–79) where she received a Diploma in Ceramics.
At the time, Risko was a senior at the Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia.
They are definite or subtle, encroaching and ignored, erased only to reappear, self-organizing itself into larger more stable wholes.