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About, the pursuit of happiness

Mary T. Scinto, b. 1988

Irish-Italian American

Mary Triestine Scinto is a contemporary American Painter. A life force of energy in motion fill her paintings known by their bold originality, vibrancy and exquisite use of color.  The inspiration of her abstract mark making is rooted in questions of existence, happiness, and human potential.  Themes of love, healing, spirituality, and mortality are intertwined in the stroke work through a language of symbolism. Scinto’s paintings challenge traditional ideas of truth, beauty and abstraction. The artist paints as a radical act of liberation and survival; it is an extension of the self, providing an experience of freedom and possibility that cannot be found elsewhere.

Scinto began painting as a therapeutic tool after enduring traumatic life experience in January 2020. Since then, Scinto has painted over 2000 original works of art. Recent publications include Antenna Signals: Emerging Virus, Emerging Artist and Images Magazine with her work Memory Images 2020 . interviewed by the Artifications podcast, Interview with New Orleans Artist Mary T. Scinto . and hosted as a guest lecturer in Art Entrepreneurship at Paier College and Fairfield University. She opened her first studio and gallery in January of 2022 in the French Quarter of New Orleans. In the Summer of 2022, Scinto took sabbatical with a private residency in Loches, France and Sardinia, Italy developing a representational body of work for the first time. The latest focus of Mary’s art is combining realism with abstraction while expanding her collection of large scale paintings, and discovering how to sustain success and authenticity as an emerging artist. Mary is also exploring new ways to share her passion by turning paintings into patterns creating surface and textile designs. These designs are now available for licensure and product collaborations. Studio Scinto’s first sample release of these pieces is available here.

Scinto is exhibited at the Sunday Shop in New Orleans featured as an artist in residence, 1901 Royal Street, and The Old No. 77 Hotel & Chandlery. In June 2022, she was commissioned for a multinational brand collaboration. She has sold over 200 works of art independently, now held in private collections internationally- 16 countries and 41 states. She hopes to have her art reach as many people as possible to experience the same sense of joy, peace & freedom it brings her to create. The Artist currently lives and paints in New Orleans, Louisiana, she joins Camp Street Studios in July 2023.