About

About: Artist Biography

Daniella Yacono is best known for her abstracted and figurative oil paintings as well as evocative charcoal works on paper. The work translates the nature of relationships, current events, sexual politics, and the mystery and fragility of the natural world into rich imagery. History, memory, and myth begin to blend into one pictorial narrative in these drawings and paintings.

Born in Pennsylvania, Daniella Yacono recently returned to the city of Reading, after 15 years in the Eastern Sierra Mountains of California.  While in CA, she pursued a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education at The Academy of Art in San Francisco.  Her artistic works range in size and medium, but share common themes of figuration, abstraction, texture, and subdued color.  

She currently lives and works in Reading, Pennsylvania and has taught a wide variety of art making classes at Yocum Institute for Arts Education.

Past Exhibitions:

• 2024 Take 505, The Loft @505, Reading, PA

• 2024 Berks Art Alliance 45th Open Juried Exhibition, Goggleworks, Reading, PA

• 2024 National Juried Exhibition, Goggleworks, Reading, PA

• 2023 Vivid, Studio B, Boyertown, PA

• 2022 Flora and Fauna, Studio B, Boyertown, PA

• 2021 Brilliance In Art, Studio B, Boyertown, PA

  (Awarded “Brilliance in Art” for Watching Koyaanisqatsi, 2021 Juror: Bridget Scogna Curator: Susan Biebuyck)

• 2021 Abstraction Impressionism Reality, Studio B, Boyertown, PA

  (Awarded “Best Abstract” for Let Me Sing to You Now, 2021

  Juror: Michelle Neifert Curator: Susan Biebuyck)

• 2021 My Favorite Things: Beauties Are Joys Forever, Studio B, Boyertown, PA

• 2021 New Day/New World, 2021 Studio B, Boyertown, PA

• 2020 Still Roaring 2020, Studio B, Boyertown, PA

• 2019 Student/Faculty Artist Exhibit, Yocum Gallery, PA

• 2019     International Invitational Salon of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA

• 2019     Community Public Mural in Reutlingen, Germany

• 2018    West Reading Museum of Contemporary Art, West Reading PA

• 2018    Moving, Yocum Institute Gallery, Wyomissing, PA

• 2017    Ceres Gallery Digital, Chelsea, NY

• 2017    Small Works Salon, New Arts Program Gallery, Kutztown, PA

• 2015    Project Wall:New Arts Project, Kutztown, PA

• 2015    The Odd, Community Skis, Mammoth Lakes, CA

• 2014    yOUR Place, Stellar Brew, Mammoth Lakes, CA

Artist Statement ~

Making art is a deep seated urge with which I translate my human experience and become aware that these themes and subjects are universal and interchangeable with all humanity. Recognizable figures and landscapes blur within colorful brushwork and palette knife slashes; while dark charcoals softly give way to bodies within the picture plane. Scenes may be obscured or may move with frenetic energy. Relationships, identity, reality, and myth are within each composition.