Ilena Finocchi is a Stockton-based multidisciplinary artist who has called herself a designer, illustrator, sculptor, maker, educator, public artist and, of late, filmmaker. In her three-plus decades as a creative, her work has been shown nationwide, from Miami to New York to Michigan to Lodi.
“My art has been more places than me,” Finocchi says with a laugh as she sits in her garden studio, where she works on a new series of sculptures built from epoxy.
Finocchi has completed many public artworks in Sacramento in the last few years, including the utility box “Apparatus Naturalus” at 10th and O streets and “Out of Water,” a ground mural in front of the California Natural Resources Building…