artist statement

I exist both online and in my fantasy world where everything is soft and I hope my art relays where I live in that world and who’s inside decorating. 

I make confessional textile art for anyone sentimental by contrasting gentle materials with unwieldy feelings. As I make my art, I spend time with and give new life to objects that have been discarded and would’ve otherwise been forgotten. I often use secondhand fabric in my work hoping to soften the world.

My practice honors diaristic writing, iPhone photography, and other personal ephemera through soft sculpture and tapestry. I am primarily a historian of my own minutiae.

Sometimes I gaze so far up my navel that I almost see god. I assume he’d just tell me to keep making my tender-hearted girl art because I really love love.

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Background

Born 1998 in Greenwich, CT

Lives Brooklyn, NY

Education

The School of Visual Arts, MFA Fine Arts candidate, 2026 (forthcoming)

New York University, self-directed BA in Love; minor in Studio Art, 2022

Group Exhibitions

How to Be a Good Lover, CP Projects Space, March 2026

Bunnies and Bruised Knees, Purple Window Gallery, February 2026

Dolls Don’t Cry, A Space, January 2026

It’s In The Garage, Goose Garage: Greenpoint, December 2025

I Knew it Once Before, Helm Contemporary, October 2025

always near and dear to whatever it is i am thinking of, The Stairwell Space, August 2025-September 2025

Soft Hands Sharp Edges, Art By City, November 2024-December 2024

Here Kitschy Kitschsy, ShockBoxx Gallery, November 2022-December 2022

Press

PHONE TIME, Textile artist Lucia Gallipoli on digital ephemera, love, and 'Tumblr art', February 2026

Flaunt Magazine, It’s in the Garage | A Multimedia Exhibition of Things We Choose to Return to & Leave Behind, December 2025

Errr Magazine, Regando mi jardín de voluntades, December 2025

Canvas Rebel, Meet Lucia Gallipoli, November 2024

The New York Times,The Poets Have Taken Over Governors Island, July 2024