Parente invitation for Solo Museum Exhibition at the Manuel Felguerez Abstract Art Museum, Zacatecas Mexico

Nicola Parente Cadillac Texas Spirit Honoree - September 2011

Artist Nicola Parente honored as Cadillac Texas Spirit Honoree. Comercial to air on KHOU11 (CBS affiliate) during the month of September. Producer/Director/DP: Chris Multop, Assistant Camera: Davis Atkins, Audio: John Lance, Editor: Nick Geist.

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Five Reasons to Visit Lower Oak Lawn this Weekend

My Dallas show made the top 5  list to visit Lower Oak Lawn this weekend, coming in at number 3.

Article by Kendall Shiffler.

#3. Get your art on at Nicola Parente’s Exhibit Opening at Gremillion 

Take a breather from your day of exploring the district by checking out LOL’s newest art exhibit, Edge of Awaking by Nicola Parente. The Houston-based artist, inspired by the words of Henry David Thoreau, embraces negative space to evoke a sense of limitlessness.

n the paintings comprising the series, Parente embraces negative space to evoke a sense of limitlessness. On a predominantly white ground, lines of black and intermittent color appear and re-appear in ever-changing intervals and variant shades whose only clear boundary is the edge of the medium.

Parente works from his studio in Houston, Texas. Born in Italy, he draws from a rich Italian heritage and a deep well of cross-cultural experiences to bring his art to life. Most recently, Parente’s work was selected for Texas Art 2010 juried exhibition. In 2009, his work was featured in an exhibition, Transparent/Translucent, at the Museum Gallery, University of Texas, in San Antonio. 

To The Edge by Alex Copeland, Dallas Observer

There is a hazy, oppressive boundary between awake and asleep that many of us struggle through each morning, whether it's the groggy, pre-coffee sleepwalk or the stubborn fight between a person's obligations and his under-rested body. This half-awake state is the subject of Houston-based Italian artist Nicola Parente’s  series of paintings in Edge of Awakening, a new exhibit at the Gremillion &Co. Fine Art gallery. The exhibit showcases Parente's expressive abstract paintings that transition between darkness and light, interrupted only by the boundaries of the canvas itself. 

Parente recent press in Kenton Magazine

Kenton Magazine
Miami's Satellite Art Fairs: Red Dot, Scope & Art Miami
by Cheryl Moody
January 19, 2011

"Italian-born Nicola Parente, exhibiting with the artist collective force, Aleatoric Gallery of Houston, Texas, embeds acrylic, charcoal, ink and pencil, to infuse shadows and hues into gorgeous abstract paintings. Masculine, majestic, and minimal. Balancing dark and light. Lovely and haunting! "




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