{"id":14460,"date":"2016-09-01T20:53:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T20:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/?p=14460"},"modified":"2016-09-01T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T20:59:40","slug":"meet-greet-new-artist-maria-saracino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/meet-greet-new-artist-maria-saracino\/","title":{"rendered":"MEET &#038; GREET WITH A NEW ARTIST : Maria Saracino SEPTEMBER 10th, 1:00-5:00 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/saracino03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14469\" src=\"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/saracino03.jpg\" alt=\"saracino03\" width=\"800\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/saracino03.jpg 800w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/saracino03-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/saracino03-768x411.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/saracino03-640x342.jpg 640w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/saracino03-750x401.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-CA\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Maria Saracino is a Canadian artist who creates figurative sculptures in polymer clay. Realistic yet whimsical, her work is about triggering a memory \u2013 a feeling \u2013 they stir something familiar for the audience. Her influences include Joe Fafard and Ron Mueck, but her biggest influence is Norman Rockwell. \u201cThrough sculpture I often channel his illustrative style of capturing candid moments in time.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-CA\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Discovering polymer clay resolved many of the frustrations Maria experienced with traditional art mediums. A former graphic artist, she discovered polymer clay in the mid 1990\u2019s when it was first introduced as a figurative medium. \u201cWith polymer clay I can create dimension, realism, movement and emotion. It doesn\u2019t require any special equipment and you have time to work on your sculpture without it drying out.\u201d Over the last 20 years, Maria has honed her sculpting style at the same time that polymer developed from a craft product into a fine art medium. More than just sculpting, her work also includes textiles, wood and resin. Maria has been featured in 3 museum exhibits and in publications and galleries in Canada and the US and has won numerous awards and recognitions. In addition to her figurative sculptures and portrait commissions, Maria also teaches sculpting in polymer clay,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-CA\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><strong>Come and meet the artist at the gallery on Saturday September 10th, between 1:00 and 5:00pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-CA\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Saracino is a Canadian artist who creates figurative sculptures in polymer clay. Realistic yet &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14471,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14460\/revisions\/14471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}