Christine Palamidessi is an American sculptor and painter working in Somerville, MA. She studied mask-making and sculpture in Venice, Rome, and Lecce, Italy. “Grandmothers,” her memoir, is engraved on a granite monolith and installed as public art at Jackson Square, on the Orange Line, in Boston. She has degrees in Film and Writing from University of Pittsburgh and a MA in Creative Writing from Boston University, where she taught courses in writing and ethnic literature for 13 years. She is author of two novels.

In the BRAZIL series, shown here, Palamidessi's imprint-based sculptures capture the form, the beauty , the nature and the politics of the subject--BRAZIL-- as interpreted through the female torso.