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The One & Only #1. In this series, Anna Comella pays tribute to her local gourmet grocery store, Sagarino’s. She spends a great deal of time in this local store buying everything from eggs to beer. The staff of Sagarino’s provided the artist with stacks of beer cartons for this series.  Anna peeled the beer labels from the cartons and applied them to canvas.  She then added different images on top of the work (including her printmaking, collage and photographic works) to give the appearance that you are looking at a wall of graffiti.The title of the series—The One & Only --reflects the first beer label used in the series.

The One & Only #2. This work is a continuation of the ‘beer label’ series, again using beer cartons from Sagarino’s.  The base of this work includes ‘Pilsner’ beer labels, at the request of one of the staff from Sagarino’s.

Remains of my 319A Studio #1. The artist lost her studio at 319A Street when developers purchased the building.  Her way to pay tribute to this studio was to use whatever materials she had in the studio at the time to create a series of artworks. For this series, Anna used discarded Fort Point Art show brochures.  The brochures were cut into random shapes and glued to painted canvas.  In this work you cannot detect any of the words or pictures from the brochures used.

Remains of my 319A Studio #15. This work continues the artist’s tribute to her studio at 319 A Street in Boston.  In this work you can see the words ‘Made in Fort Point’ and also see two tiny figures, all from the recycled show brochures.

Remains of my 319A Studio #2. This work, also using recycled brochures, continues the tribute to 319 A Street but has a greater significance for the artist, as it was the first image used to create works with Artaic Innovation Mosaics of Boston.

Remains of my 319A Studio #2 Mosaic. After meeting the folks at Artaic Innovative Mosaic in Boston, and being offered the opportunity to be one of their featured artists, Anna joined collaborative forces with them.  The result was the replication of the artist’s unique works in mosaic.To create her first mosaic piece with Artaic, the artist used a digital image of  her “Remains of my 319A Studio #2” work on canvas along with Artaic’s patent pending mosaic software and robot fabricator. 

4 Elements #7. Anna produced this series while loft sitting for a friend in the neighborhood, who gave her access to a large studio to work in.  The studio was part of the latest artist live/work studios in her neighborhood, Midway Studios, home to over 100 artists. Each of the art works in this series contains the same 4 elements:  Vertical lines, circles, dots and random (thought) drawings. How these 4 elements are used varies widely with some works having a lot of these elements while other works have only a few of the elements.

4 Elements #9. This work continues the artist’s tribute to Midway Studios and combines two canvases together with a back bracket to make one piece.  The piece can be shown as one large work or split into separate pieces and displayed together as a diptych or apart as two completely different works.

4 Elements #11. This work expands on the previous works done by the artist at Midway studios.   Using a router tool, the artist cut each of the 4 elements (vertical lines, circles, etc.) into separate pieces of wood.  The wood was inked with paint and printmaking paper placed on top of the wood.  The wood and paper were run through an etching press to produce a design.  Several ‘runs’ through the etching press were done in order to incorporate all 4 elements onto the printmaking paper. 

4 Elements #13. This work continues the artist’s woodcut creations and tribute to Midway Studios and the 4 elements theme.