Olivia Misciagna received her BFA in Painting and a minor in Art History from Pratt Institute, where she graduated with Highest Honors. Her thesis show, “The Corn Keeps on Growing,” opened at Steuben Gallery and set the foundation for the style she still explores today.

Inspired by agricultural landscapes, Misciagna sees the cornfield as a structure, not just a backdrop. Her paintings pull viewers into the field, where leaves cut across the canvas, shadows break up the space, and tall stalks create a steady rhythm. She paints with bold backgrounds of acidic pinks, earthy peaches, lavender, and cool celadon blue, bringing movement against sharp greens and expressive dark lines. Her work shifts between close observation and abstraction. Rather than showing a single place, her paintings capture what it feels like to stand among the plants, with vision that is broken up, fragmented, and always changing.

In her paintings, foreground and background blend together, and negative space plays an important role in the composition. Some pieces are dense and immersive, while others open into calm fields of color that give a sense of space. The corn plant becomes a kind of living architecture, protective, enclosing, and vulnerable, allowing Misciagna to explore ideas of growth, repetition, and perception. With her structured brushwork and bold use of color and light, she transforms a familiar rural scene into a painting space full of emotion and invention.

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