Angela Fiammetta is an abstract artist living and working in Bedford, New York. Her practice centers on stitched paintings—works constructed through an iterative process of painting, fragmentation, rearrangement, and sewing.

The stitched paintings began as an exploration of texture and architecture within the surface of a painting and quickly became the focus of her practice. Fiammetta begins by building layers of color across raw canvas before tearing and cutting the painted surface into fragments. The pieces are then rearranged intuitively, machine-stitched together, and stretched once again as a painting.

Fragmentation became a way of seeing color differently. Although the materials remain unchanged, moving a painted fragment into a new position alters the way its color is perceived—what once belonged to one passage suddenly exists in relationship to another. The process reflects an ongoing fascination with color as something relational and unstable, continually transformed by context, proximity, layering, and light.

Sewing also carries a personal history. Fiammetta learned to use a sewing machine from her grandmother as a child, and returning to that physical language of making has become an unexpected connection to her younger self. The act of stitching feels like a homecoming of sorts.

At a time when more of life is experienced through screens, the tactile nature of the process has taken on additional meaning. Painting, tearing, arranging, stitching, and stretching require sustained engagement with physical material. Making becomes a way of returning to the tangible world—to slowness, attention, and the evidence of the hand.

Through this process of making, undoing, and reconstructing, Fiammetta's paintings explore transformation and the shifting relationships between individual parts and a larger whole. The seams remain visible, allowing each fragment to retain something of its own history while becoming part of something new.

Contact:
angela@angelafiammetta.com
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