Art

From the Napa Valley California, Fanucci is an internationally well-known artist, who has shown worldwide, including the Carrousel Du Louvre in Paris, Le Musee de Marrakech in Morocco, the Robert Monday Winery, the Christopher Hill Gallery in California, Andrews Art Museum in North Carolina, Chasen Gallery in Virginia, Vam Inc. Gallery in NJ, The Walter Wickiser Gallery, in New York, among others.

Fanucci is best known for her UNIQUE painting style – painting cities on top of each other with a layer of color in between. The Walter Wickiser Gallery has published two books on Fanucci that introduce her painting style in depth. The books are titled “Layla Fanucci – City of Dreams Unabridged: 1999-2011” and “Layla Fanucci – Striking a Creative Note: Passion to Process.”

Driven by a desire to evoke her experience of the city, she achieves remarkable harmony in these resonant works. A musician before becoming a painter, she captures the rhythm of the great metropolis, the lyrical splendor of its skies and the cacophony of its streets. Looking at the scenes, one understands why people return time after time to these places, like musical phrases we never tire of hearing, always finding something new in them. 

In Fanucci’s dream like paintings, the relationships of building, massed like blocks, transmit the grandeur and intensity of the urban environment, framing the crowds that swarm below them. Dense, deeply felt, intriguing and masterfully painted, her cityscapes draw us in because of the passion in which they were created. 

In addition to being a well-known artist, Fanucci has also been recognized as a successful business woman. In Marlo Thomas’s book “It ain’t over till it’s over”, Marlo picked 60 woman to write a chapter each about women who have achieved great success in business with entrepreneurial vision.

Art tours at Charter Oak can be scheduled by appointment at 707-812-4609 or 707-963-2298.
Website:www.laylafanucci.com