biography
This year Annette has work on exhibit at Fiberart International '07, the premier exhibition for fiber artists in the country. Annette's piece will tour for two years after the show in various galleries around the U.S. In addition, Curator Sarah Schmerler has included three of Annette's pieces in the "Art as Anecdote" exhibition at the Brooklyn Artist Council, D.u.m.b.o. Brooklyn. Annette's "Urban Artifact: Promising," is exhibiting as part of the "Intimate Eye" exhibit juried by artist Jean Shin at the Phoenix Gallery in Chelsea, NY.
In 2006, Annette's work was exhibited in the 9th International Open Exhibit at WomanMade Gallery in Chicago (40 pieces were selected from a field of 1,200); during Convergence 2006, in three different shows; one of which was Creative Grand Crossings where she won Third Place. Her work was also shown in Small Expressions (selected for three consecutive years). In addition, she was selected by Curator Dana Gentile to be one of the artists included in "Far From Home," an exhibition which took place at the Brooklyn Artists Gym.
In 2005, Tacconelli’s artwork showed at A.I.R. Gallery, the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States. New York City curator and Dumbo Art Center Director, Joy Glidden selected three of her Vision Boxes for the El Greco exhibit at the Islip Art Museum. Five pieces of her “Urban Artifacts Series” were juried by Jane Sauer and Joyce Scott into The Juried National Bead and Fiber Exhibit at The Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center.
During the 2004 TSGNY (Textile Study Group of New York) juried exhibit, Fiber for the Future, Tacconelli won Honorable Mention. Curator Matilda McQuaid said of Annette’s work, “Most engaging are the juxtaposition of found and rusted objects with the beads. The care with which the beaded structures were added to each metal object makes scraps of metal into little jewels. Also interesting is the idea that anything can be a structure, framework or ‘loom’ if one looks carefully enough.”
Images of Tacconelli’s work have also appeared in Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, Bead and Button magazine and various show catalogs.
Tacconelli has served on the Board of the Textile Study Group of New York, as Vice President and Exhibition Committee Chairperson and on the Board of the New York Guild of Handweavers.
Tacconelli received a B.A. in Political Thought from Mansfield University, continuing with Ph.D. studies in Social & Political Thought at University of Massachusetts. After reading Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, she acted on her conviction that the courageous life was the artist’s. She studied sculpture & performance art at the Art Institute of Chicago and perfected her installation art while working in an avant garde grocery store! She learned to weave, spin, kumi-himo, dye and think in fiber at a Chicago City Park District adult education class.
Annette Tacconelli lives in “The Holy Land” of Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Anthony Pinciotti and their four year old son. Her studio is located in Brooklyn where she continues to create from discarded pieces of urban life and her Visions.