Gallery artist, Charles Turnell is included in the upcoming exhibition “XV Florence Biennale” at the Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy. Opens October 18, 2025. Turnell is a Belizean-American visual artist whose work explores the interplay between fragmentation and unity, light and shadow, memory and identity. Influenced by his upbringing in Belize, Jesuit education, and life across Latin America, Europe, and the U.S., Turnell brings a global perspective to his art. Turnell’s signature technique—“Ars Musiva”—is a contemporary interpretation of mosaic and pointillism, in which photography, digital painting, and cultural iconography converge. These large-format works are built from image fragments—birds, flowers, relics, human forms—that function like visual tesserae.
Turnell’s art reflects the dualities of modern life: ancient and modern, presence and absence, clarity and ambiguity. Within this layered complexity, his work offers a path toward healing and coherence. Turnell’s pieces invite deep reflection, revealing beauty not in perfection, but in the luminous fusion of contradiction, culture, and digital form.
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