Photography courtesy of Brigitte D’Annibale.
Brigitte D’Annibale is obsessed with the tension of juxtaposition. 
“Salvaging stories from the past to shape the stories yet to tell,” she writes. 
Themes of her work explore contrast; old and new, surface and depth, who we are and who we have yet to become, destruction and creation, distraction and introspection. 

With a background in mixed media and architectural design, Brigitte’s creations exist on canvas and often bleed into the space enclosing them.  She is an interdisciplinary artist and designer, though she is resistant to any title and prefers “I make stuff.” Her art is meant to move beyond superficial appearance and instead represent their inward significance. 
Brigitte lived for two decades in Hawaii, a source of inspiration beautifully reflected in many of her pieces from the time. There, she reconstructed her home, a condemned historic plantation house in Kauai, both structurally and aesthetically. What began it...