Artist uses his talent to create loving tribute to late wife
Artist Joe LoGuirato has been a painter and a sculptor for all of his adult life. But it’s safe to say that he has never poured as much emotion into his work as he did when he created the 26 pieces featured in his latest exhibition, now showing at the Urban Folk Art Gallery on Smith Street.
“Stella: Homage to a Cancer Patient” is a lovingly-created tribute to LoGuirato’s late wife Stella LoGuirato, who died of lung cancer three years ago. The LoGuiratos had been married for 38 years when Stella died. She was 58 years old. She had bravely battled cancer for nearly three years.
“She died of lung cancer and she had never smoked a cigarette in her life. Life hits you in the gut sometimes. When she passed away, I thought that the best way I could pay tribute to her was to use my creativity. The exhibition is a visual journal of what we went through together,” LoGuirato, 61, told the Brooklyn Eagle.