Mason D'Aleo

Mason D’Aleo (b. June 2004) is an artist based in Savannah, Georgia and Ocean City Maryland.  Her work is rooted in gratefulness, purity and nature using acrylic and oil paint. Mason is graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2026 with a painting Bachelor’s degree. Since 2020 she has been selling her art through Facebook and Instagram. Her artwork is featured in various private collections and has been in 521 Art Lounge in Savannah, Stuart’s Antiques in  Berlin, Maryland and Art League of Ocean City in Maryland. She completed her first artist residency at the Art League July 2024. 

Travel is a huge inspiration for Mason’s work, by taking an art history class abroad to Tokyo and Naoshima, Japan in 2024 she experienced and studied masterful art and architecture through Shinto shrines, the Imperial Palace and major museums like the Sumida Hokusai Museum. She recently was accepted to an international artist residency in Kavala, Greece from August 27th to September 17th 2026 and is applying and attending more from there.

Artist Statement

My work recognizes the simultaneity in every organism that goes unspoken. I paint nature’s raw beauty and innocence. Growing up an only child in Ocean City, Maryland made me appreciate the power of being around life by the sea, the ecosystem is peaceful, quiet and content with what they have. I relate to these animals to myself, by choosing a singular animal to paint I am pointing out its self standing beauty, the power of being on your own. A pack of animals are like a cluster of trees, all are equal, one is not more important than the other in a group, they all come together with the same movements or repitition that create a balanced composition. I like to paint about the synchronicity in nature, how its perfect geometry blows in the wind, why each hair is perfect and parralel to the other. I love patterns on animals and in nature, its fun to single out an organism and brighten it more, or try and recreate the straightest line on a building 60 times. 

My work relies on studying these patterns and capturing the spontaneous, coordinated connection of monuments or organisms in life like a flock of birds, or a cluster of painsteakingly carved stained glass. These indirect, apparent interactions appear daily to me, I try my best to recreate that for the viewers.