Over time, Claudia R. Fieo’s work has been a shifting dialogue between various printmaking techniques. Sensitive to the beauty, wonder, and cruelty inherent in the cycles of nature, she ponders the ineffable mysteries intrinsic to living a life. Her artistic investigations examine the inevitability of time passing; the capriciousness of memory; and the tensions that exist in relationships—with one’s self, with others, and with the natural world and built environment.
Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and are held in private collections, as well as permanent and public collections, such as Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Boston Public Library, Bowdoin College, Newport Art Museum, Slater Memorial Museum, and University City Art Museum of the Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy, China.
Claudia is a Professor of Art in the department of Visual Art and History of Art and holds the Hannah Goldberg Chair in Teaching Innovation at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where she has taught graphic design, drawing, and printmaking courses since 1992. Recently, she was an Artist Fellow at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland and completed a residency at Bowdoin College as the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project 2019 Visiting Artist.
A native of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, Fieo moved to Florence, Italy for her graduate studies at Rosary College Graduate School of Art at Villa Schifanoia and Il Bisonte International School for Advanced Printmaking, earning Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees in Printmaking. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon University. The artist currently resides in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
Cosmos Disrupted, Collagraph Monoprint, 47.25" x 20", 2017