“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”  

These words by Henry David Thoreau inspire Nicola Parente’s new body of work Edge of Awakening. The dynamic series of expressive abstract paintings explores neither awakening nor its opposite, but the uncertain worlds between the two where each person must choose among possibilities. Those choices, those points of decision, visited and re-visited, both discover and invent the nature of our lives. 

Parente works from his studio in Houston, Texas.  Born in Italy, he draws from a rich Italian heritage and a deep well of cross-cultural experiences to bring his art to life.