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Specialties
BRUNI Gallery is the home of ‘The Jazz Masters Series by BRUNI’
An explosive experience of color and soul, encompassing over 1,400 original oil Jazz Paintings. Her wildly expressionistic brush captures the very depths of their spirit. One of BRUNI’s Duke Ellington Portraits is in the permanent collection of The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
BRUNI also specializes in Humanitarian Icons such as Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandella, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and many more. She has a huge repertoire of colorful and decorative abstracts and florals as well.
BRUNI Gallery also houses the spectacular ‘Sports Originals’ by artist Mark Gray. He as done work with NHL, NFL, NBA, and many sports related charities. Mark also has original paintings of Landscapes, Indian and Western scenes as well.
History
Established in 1980.
«True Creativity… It’s not so much what you get on the canvas, but how you feel after really painting»…BRUNI
Bruni Sablan was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil circa the mid-twentieth century. Artistry has been her heritage. Her father Joseph Parello, of Sicilian decent, a civil engineer and architect, also painted. Her mother, Clo Parello, of Lebanese decent, was an accomplished classical pianist and beloved piano instructor for many years in the Northern California bay area.
Bruni’s father introduced her to American jazz at a very early time in her life, she was five years old. She describes him as a «quiet soul» who loved the music of Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Artie Shaw, Louis Armstrong, June Christy, Sarah Vaughan, and many more. At the same time, her Sicilian grandfather, Caetano Parello, was teaching her how to «see» art… He was a sculptor/painter himself. When caught «correcting» an Italian masterpiece owned by the Parello family, the child received accolades f
Meet the Business Owner
BRUNI S.
Business Owner
«True Creativity… It’s not so much what you get on the canvas, but how you feel after really painting»…BRUNI
Bruni Sablan was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil circa the mid-twentieth century. Artistry has been her heritage. Her father Joseph Parello, of Sicilian decent, a civil engineer and architect, also painted. Her mother, Clo Parello, of Lebanese decent, was an accomplished classical pianist and beloved piano instructor for many years in the Northern California bay area.