I make abstract paintings to test the tension between individual action and the structures we exist within.

I work with saturated shapes against fields that are flat, opaque, or transparent. 

Color is structural not emotional, but every edge is freehand. 

I work one decision at a time, within a set amount of time, under one central rule: no erasing or second thoughts.

Once something enters the painting, it stays, and the next decision has to respond to it. 

The painting becomes a system in which nothing is independent: every shape is under pressure from what surrounds it.

Each painting can begin from any previous one, creating a continuum where forms and relationships return and change, making the body of work more important than any single piece.

Painting is how I find out what happens to a system when everything in it pushes. 

This is close to how I experience life: we shape and are shaped by one another, and by the larger systems we live within.

Even the empty space holds its ground. It pushes back.

Fabiola Gironi (b. 1982) is a painter born and raised in Milan, Italy. 

She studied Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the Università degli Studi di Milano and holds a master's in cultural organizations from the University of Bologna. 

She has lived in the UK, Madrid, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and works primarily in painting and drawing. In 2025, she presented a solo exhibition at Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, and has shown at Atalanta Art Fair, San Francisco Art Fair, and Spring/Break Art Show. Her work is held in private collections across Europe and the United States. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.