Giordano fashions sculptural installations whose technique she perfected while living in Yaddo during an artist’s residency. Her working process often requires burning, stitching, melting, cutting and welding. Giordano molds and fuses paper with metal and wax into distinct shapes such as chevrons or knots, while weaving it with other media rendering powerful presences that demand viewer involvement.
Giordano’s work is part of a continuing series of sculptures that relate to the energies of nature and a deeply felt affinity for the delicate balance between the fragility of the human condition and the power of humanity. Giordano fuses disparate elements such as metal, straw, paper, wire, wood, and other materials that work together in dialogue. In combining these various objects both man-made and natural, she references states of transformation between nature and urban life. Giordano’s work parallels states of growth and deterioration as well as the elements – wind, fire and rain that alter and transform her work’s surfaces while dealing with the processes integral to the evolution of life.

Giordano has enjoyed nearly twenty solo shows and has taken part in countless group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She has been awarded fellowships at Awagami Factory in Japan, at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York and the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. Giordano is one of the founders of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island and has taught painting and printmaking at LaGuardia College, Union College and the College of Staten Island.

Giordano’s work is featured in an international traveling show The World of Paper, by the American Museum of Papermaking recently appearing at the Museo Nationale Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile and continuing to Japan in 2007. Her work was selected by Lloyd Herman, founding Director of the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, to be featured in Pulp Function at the Fuller Museum in Brockton, MA 2007-2008 as well as traveling with another venue EXHIBITS USA for a three year national museum tour. Just a few of the collections of which her work is part are the Hammond Museum, North Salem, N.Y., Trenton Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton, N.J., Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., The New York Public Library Print Collection, N.Y., and many United States Embassies around the world including those of Cyprus, Vienna, Turkey, and Zambia.