Biography

With influences ranging from plein-air Impressionism to Renaissance architecture to Italian Futurism, Edward Giobbi calls himself finally, a Symbolist. Speaking less to style than intention, this designation represents Giobbi’s search for Beauty and Truth as universal objectives pursued through a lifetime of intellectual and physical rigor.

Born in Waterbury, Connecticut to Italian immigrant parents during the Great Depression, conscripted to the American army at eighteen, Giobbi came of age in circumstances that instilled in him a profound respect for, and necessitated, resilience. His formation as an artist was equally rigorous. Studying Impressionism under former student of Monet, in New York at the Arts Student League, and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, he remained a student all his life, endeavoring follow in the footsteps of the Masters.