COASTE | ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
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Steve Pennisi owned an advertising agency in Portland, Maine for approximately 25 years, but
January at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center in Fort Myers, and his work has recently been
it wasn’t until he sold the business that he truly discovered his creative side. Or should we say, sides. You see, Pennisi is today an artist who’s literally uncovered a new form of painting — one that uses, yes, both sides of the paint.
exhibited in the “Florida Contemporary” show at Baker Museum, Artis- Naples, the “All Florida” in the Boca Museum of Art, and the Linus Galleries in Los Angeles. It’s a unique technique that Pennisi came upon in 2013 somewhat by accident. “I
Pennisi is today an artist who’s literally uncovered a new form of painting — one that uses, yes, both sides of the paint.
The results are so impressive that Pennisi’s body of work was featured in a major solo exhibit this
was peeling paint off my palette and I saw the back side of the paint, and it was beautiful,” he
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