Artist and Photographer Nicole MartinelliNicole Martinelli is an international award-winning artist and photographer who has been featured in prominent galleries throughout the United States and Europe. Nicole Martinelli is originally from the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. She now resides in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, where she finds inspiration in the surrounding mountains and rural areas for her latest artworks and photographs. Nicole Martinelli&#x27;s photography and hand-painted E-paintings have been featured in a total of 31 prestigious, in-gallery juried group exhibitions at galleries throughout the US and Europe. Including yet not limited to; The Marblehead Arts Association Gallery in Massachusetts, Mosaic Arts Gallery in the Mosaic Arts District, Fairfax, Virginia, BWAC Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, San Diego Museum of Art Artist Guild, and CORE Art Space in Colorado. She has also achieved international success. The artist&#x27;s work was accepted and exhibited in a prestigious five-month international juried exhibition in June of 2024. The gallery exhibition was located in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss Alps in Gstaad, Switzerland. The international gallery exhibition showcased the artist&#x27;s work alongside juried, selected artists from around the world. She has also graciously exhibited her work in &quot;WOMAN POWER 2025: Weaving Dreams, Living Time&quot; with 19 selected artists from around the world in March 2025 with Primo Piano Gallery and The Lecce Arredo Art fair, located in the Puglia Salento region of Italy, in Lecce, Italy. In July 2025. Nicole Martinelli&#x27;s art works have been featured in multiple Italian art publications for both Gallery exhibitions held and located in Lecce italy. The artist was honored to be accepted to exhibit her work in multiple exhibitions with Rossinabarro gallery, located in the heart of beautiful Rome, Italy. &quot;Future Spaces, july through August 2025, and currently being exhibited with the Gallery in Rome in The Gallery exhibition, Moving ideas Septemberthrough October 2025 with the prestigious gallery, Rossinabarro gallery, located in the Rome italy. The artist is touched and honored to exhibit her work with the incredible art organization, Rev Art, this upcoming September of 2025. She also looks forward to her upcoming solo exhibition at Artifact Gallery in Manhattan, New York, in 2026.Nicole Martinelli is originally from the Chicagoland area of the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Nicole was introduced to painting and developed her love for art at an early age through her grandmother, who was an artist. She also received mentorship from a Chicago Art Institute graduate at a local gallery her grandmother was associated with during Nicole&#x27;s childhood into her early adulthood.Nicole was originally heavily influenced by the Impressionism era of Van Gogh and Monet and started having success locally throughout the Chicagoland area with her first medium, oil painting. Her oil paintings reflected her deep love for the Impressionism era. The artist, Nicole Martinelli, was accepted and presented her first solo exhibition at Madame Zuzus, owned by talented songwriter, singer, and musician Billy Corgan. Unfortunately, soon afterward, the artist&#x27;s newfound success took a turn for the worse due to serious health issues, forcing the artist to resign from her art and focus on regaining her health. While focusing on her health and unable to paint during this time period, the artist found a new love for photography. The artist found comfort and solace within nature by expressing herself artistically through photography. Instead of her brush, she allowed her lens to create her artistic passion. Upon regaining her health in 2022, the artist happened to submit her newfound passion, photography, on a whim to juried art exhibitions. Her photography was immediately accepted and awarded in multiple national exhibitions.The artist and photographer, Nicole Martinelli&#x27;s art has evolved throughout the years since her official artistic debut in 2014. Her difficult health circumstances prompted her to seek solace, peace, and comfort in nature, allowing her to fully explore her creative artistic expression through photography. During this time period, the artist became more open-minded to different mediums and styles of artistic expression. The artist combined both her oil painting knowledge with the knowledge gained on the advanced features of photo editing software to create a new art medium. With her stylus as her paintbrush and her touchscreen laptop as her canvas, her hand-painted E-painting medium was born.The artist&#x27;s photography and E-paintings have earned her recognition nationally and internationally, along with numerous awards. The artist first embarked on her journey of creating artworks with her new innovative art form in the spring of 2023. Her hand-painted E-paintings received immediate recognition by numerous galleries throughout the United States and have also received international recognition and success. The artist&#x27;s sudden transition to new mediums was prompted due to the challenging life circumstances she experienced, which she was able to overcome by drawing on her artistic talents and passion, as well as finding solace in nature and finds that these difficult life circumstances are a blessing in disguise. The artist, Nicole Martinelli, is deeply thankful for the opportunity to share her profound love and understanding of nature through her artworks.In May 2023, she unveiled her innovative new art form with the painting &quot;Navajo Nights Indigo Dreams,&quot; which gained her immediate acceptance into the prestigious Marblehead Arts Gallery as part of the Variations 2023 exhibition, out of 800 submissions. Soon after, in June 2023, she received a third place award in July 2023 at a Juried International Abstract Exhibition located in Geneva, Switzerland, for her hand-created E-painting titled &quot;Aztec Lucid Dreams.&quot; Later, in November 2023, the same piece was accepted by the Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition Gallery (BWAC) in Brooklyn, New York, by juror and poet Armando Garcia. More recently, in Spring 2024, her artworks &quot;Requiem of the Flowers&quot; and &quot;Nostalgic Terrain Floral Daydream&quot; were chosen for the prestigious San Diego Museum Artist Guild (SDMAAG) Spring Exhibition in San Diego, California. This selection was made by the distinguished juror, who holds the position of Associate Curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nancy Lim. Both artworks, &quot;Requiem of the Flowers&quot; and &quot;Nostalgic Terrain Floral Daydream,&quot; were selected from 674 entries for inclusion in this prestigious exhibition.Nicole sees technology as a new, exciting creative opportunity. She embraces this fresh avenue with a sense of liberation, eager to explore uncharted territory and break through self-imposed boundaries. With her latest artistic medium, the artist revels in a sense of boundless freedom and limitless potential.

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