Exhibits & Events

Cerulean Arts is pleased to present Pia De Girolamo: Urb/Suburbs. This exhibition of acrylic paintings challenges conceptions of the ordinary by exploring the layers of beauty and history embedded in quiet scenes from everyday life. This series of paintings, developed over the last year features vignettes of urban architecture and bridges with a particular interest in contrasts between old and new constructions. These urban scenes are presented alongside quiet suburban moments – the other end of the artist’s familiar commute.

Of her process, the artist writes: “It is easier to absorb new images in novel places than at home when you are observing the same landscape on a daily basis. Nevertheless, I find it is possible and very rewarding to train the mind to be open to things I might not have noticed before.” To this end, De Girolamo highlights simple pleasures like the way pine trees look silhouetted against a bright sky or how the lines, bridges and ramps crisscross to create movement. Seen together, the exhibition offers a record of Philadelphia and its surroundings at a particular time highlighting unique features that might go unnoticed by many, but to those who pay attention are
what make this place feel like home.

About the Artist Formerly a physician, Pia De Girolamo has been a dedicated artist based in the Greater Philadelphia area for the last 20+ years. She has produced work for 14 solo exhibitions at venues including Cerulean Gallery in Philadelphia and the Museo Mastroianni of the Musei di San Salvatore in Lauro, Rome and has exhibited extensively throughout the Northeast and beyond, most recently at the Delaware Contemporary Art Museum. In 2022, she was Inliquid’s first Artist in Residence at Park Towne Place where she researched the history of that mid-century modern apartment complex. She has received numerous awards including Best in
Show at the 2019 Wayne Art Center Regional Juried Spring Open Exhibition and 2nd place in Alfa Art Gallery 'sNew Brunswick Art Salon 2015-2016 Juried Exhibition Series. Her work has been published in Tidings of Magpies Magazine, The Marathon Literary Review, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, among others. Her paintings are in many public and private collections including the Musei Di San Salvatore, Italy; PNC Bank, and Thomas Jefferson University. She holds a BA in Art History with a concentration in Architecture from Barnard College, Columbia University, and an MD degree from the University of Rochester. She regularly lectures on the intersection between Art and Medicine and the interrelationship of Art, Nature and Health.

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