Monica Cioppettini

Monica Cioppettini (b. 1994, United States) received a B.F.A. in fine art from Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey in 2017, and an M.F.A. in painting in 2020 from The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. She has participated in numerous group and exhibitions in New York and Georgia. Cioppettini is a multidisciplinary artist whose work centers around used jewelry and found objects, collected from local thrift shops and flea markets with an interest to give a second life to something that was once so personal and close to a stranger. Perhaps it’s the never-ending cycle of production and consumption that floods our world with rejected objects that fuels her mania for collecting and obsession with other people’s stuff. Using accessories as examples of identity, each gold necklace or pearl earring has a story and sentiment attached to it. But then it was thrown away or cast aside, forgotten in piles of dirt and dust in thrift shops waiting to be found.