Featured in Italy’s top interior design publication

Written By Allison Rietta

My painting ‘Known For Her Beauty’ has been featured in the September issue of CasaFacile magazine!

I am so very happy to announce that my painting, ‘Known For Her Beauty’ has been featured in one of Italy’s top home décor magazine, CasaFacile! Honestly, this has been one of my ‘big dreams/goals’ since I began my art career. I literally devour this magazine in its digital format at the breakfast table each morning, and I still can’t believe my artwork is featured—and alongside two of my favourite artists: Ronan Bouroullec and Nathalie Du Pasquier, to boot!

 

Here is the translation in English of the article, written by Paolo Manca: 

"The powerful visual language of abstract art arises from the freedom to lose oneself in thought, embracing imperfection in the pursuit of precision." This reflection from, artist Allison Rietta, inspired us to lose ourselves in these eight works—one of which is hers—to which we can (re)give meaning, and imagine on the walls of our homes...

 

‘Known For Her Beauty’ 2024

15” x 20”

Watercolour, acrylic, hand-cut collage and gold leaf on art board

 Custom-framed in cherry under museum-grade glass (AGUV)

 

Available for Viewing:

Studio 154

Wychwood Barns

601 Christie Street

Toronto

For Purchase Inquiries:

Email allison.rietta@gmail.com

 

CasaFacile magazine cover photo by @francescamaiolino

Feature written by Paolo Manca

Allison Rietta

Allison Rietta is a Toronto-based abstract artist whose work explores mystic geometry as a language of energy, rhythm, and perception. She began her full-time artistic practice in 2020 following a 25-year career as a creative director in branding and marketing within the graphic design industry. Rietta holds an honours degree in Environmental and Industrial Design from the Ontario College of Art and Design, and furthered her studies through the Turps Painting School (2022–23).

Drawing on her spiritual practice of meditation and sound healing, Rietta’s work is informed by the resonant qualities of sacred sound and the symbolic structures of geometry found in nature and architecture. Through repetition, layering, and variation, her compositions translate vibration into visual form, where colour, shape, and pattern function as carriers of rhythm and inner experience. Her practice moves between precise, structured arrangements and more intuitive, atmospheric fields, reflecting a dialogue between control and fluidity, and between inner and outer perception.

Rietta has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Toronto, New York, London (UK), and Basel (Switzerland). She has been twice longlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize (UK) and shortlisted for the Visual Art Open International Emerging Artist Award. Her work is held in private and public collections, including a major acquisition by the Holbrook Danville boutique hotel in the United States. Her work has also been featured in CasaFacile, one of Italy’s leading interior design publications.

https://www.allisonrietta.com
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