Tony Dagradi

Steamin'

2017

This takes dead aim at how being Black in our culture is a very dangerous game. The imagery is of an old arcade shooting gallery. Throughout the 1800s, right up until the 1960s, carnival games...

assemblage sculpture: wood stadium-like stands with 13 hand-carved & painted people, 1 resin & wood figure, painted reversible wood carnival game clown with one side a smile and the reverse a frown, hand-painted wood flag...

assemblage sculpture: Antique large handmade wood racist “Dancing Dan” puppet with exaggerated lips and distressed clothes, handmade trumpet, old wood handmade coffin. Can be a wall object or shelf...

assemblage sculpture: Handmade old wood throne, hand carved wood puppet in old dress and boat flag sash, real pearls, vintage Rolex watch, probably fake, vintage painted pictures girls' career game pieces, handmade wood controller, antique sterling silver hand mirror...

"In attesa" , " Waiting" 2013, Technic mix on canvas Signed on the back The artist perform this splendid work during pregnancy, she did not want to part with it until today ! In 2018 Veronica Botticelli is one of the 222 emerging artists worth investing in. She was selected by the most prestigious curators, critics, journalists and art galleries Veronica Botticelli seems to have frozen the image and now she presents it on structured backgrounds of large fields of color, on which she intervenes by applying paper that then becomes one with the canvas. Whatever the medium, sheet, canvas, ministerial envelopes, the works of Veronica are in the form of palimpsest, they are made of accumulations, erasures, presence, absence and speak with force of painting and painting. a resolutely contemporary painting. She has chosen this object precisely because of its strong poetic message, making it the custodian of memories, both personal and collective, in which we mix the nostalgic thoughts we have as we gaze at a work that suggests to us the enchantment of a lost past. Veronica Botticelli currently lives and works in Paris. Graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. She began working in 2004 taking part in "Cortilarte", an exhibition held at the Casa della Letteratura in San Lorenzo. In 2006 she won the first prize at the National Contest of Visual Arts, organized by ANMIL and INAIL , held at the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome. In the same year she held her solo exhibition Ateliers d'Artista at the library in Villa Mercede in collaboration with Fondazione Pastificio Cerere. After participating in several collective exhibitions in 2010, Fabio Sargentini supervised Veronica Botticelli's solo exhibition "Un Quadro Nel Teatro" at the Galleria L'Attico in Rome. In 2011 she held an exhibition at the L.E.S. Gallery, CSV Center in New York City. In 2012 she was among the young artists chosen to enter the 5th edition of the Premio VAF with a traveling exhibit at the Stadtgalerie in Kiel; the Museum Biedermann in Donaueschingen; CIAC Centro per L'Arte Contemporanea, Castello Colonna in Genazzano. In 2013 she held her solo show “Sono tutto quello che vedo” at the Annamarracontemporanea gallery in Rome. In 2015 she wos awarded the prize "Premio Giovani" Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome. In 2018 she held her solo show “Io ho sentito la musica" curated by Catherine Tirelli, Gallerie L & C Tirelli, Vevey, Svizzera Solo exhibitions 2018 "Io ho sentito la musica", a cura di/curated by Catherine Tirelli, Gallerie L & C Tirelli, Vevey, Svizzera 2017 "La disanza delle ragioni" , doppia personale a cura di/curated by Giorgia Calò, annamarracontemporanea, Roma, Italy (cat. ed. Gangemi) 2015 "Amore mio non te ne andare", a cura di/curated by Catherine Tirelli, Gallerie L & C Tirelli, Vevey,Svizzera 2013 "Sono tutto quello che vedo”, a cura di/curated by Giorgia Calò, annamarracontemporanea, Roma, Italy (cat. ed. Gangemi) 2011 “16, 26 tutto quello che volevo dire”, a cura di/curated by Fabrizio Pizzuto, Closet, Roma 2010 “Un quadro nel teatro”, Galleria L' attico di Fabio Sargentini, Rome, Italy 2006 "Ateliers d'Artista”, a cura di/curated by Maurizio Carresi e Rosanna Rago, Biblioteca di villa Mercede, in collaborazione con la Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma (cat.) Collective exhibition 2019 Art ON PAPER, Galleria Anna Marra, Brussels, Belgium Paris Design WEEK, Ayn Gallery, Paris, France/ curated by Yasmine Azzi “Libri d' Artista, l’arte da leggere”, a cura di/curated by Mariastella Margozzi e Valentina Gigante, Castello Svevo di Bari; Castello di Copertino, Lecce, Italy Art Paris Art Fair, Galleria Anna Marra, Grand Palais, Paris, France “Brias'' Internationale Art Symposium and master Classes, a cura di/curated by Tima Jam, Istanbul, Turkey 2018 “Arimondi3 rewired’’ a cura di/curated by Angelo Cricchi e Barbara Santoro, via Arimondi, Roma, Italy 2017 "Invisibili connessioni" a cura di/curated by Viola Invernizzi, Museo Italgas.Torino “Una Festa dell'Arte” a cura di/curated by di Anna Nassisi, scuderie di palazzo Farnese di Caprarola. Viterbo, Italy 2015 Vincitrice del premio "Premio giovani" Accademia Nazionale di San Luca. Roma, Italy(cat.) 2015 "[ Sé-gni]", a cura di/curated by Giorgia Calò, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Mostra realizzata in occasione dell'asta raccolta fondi in favore della IIFCA-Fondazione Italia Israele per la Cultura e le Arti, Teatro Franco Parenti di Milano. Milano,Italy (cat.) 2014 “L'arte guarda avanti" (Premio Terna) a cura di/curated by di Cristiana Collu e Gianluca Marziani, Archivio di Stato di Torino, Torino (cat.) 2013 “Interno e memoria”, a cura di/curated by Valentina Casacchia, Edward Cutler Gallery, Milano (cat.) “It diary of a neuter”, a cura di/curated by Caterina Silva, Private Basement, Parigi 2012 “PPP Una Polemica Inversa, omaggio a Pier Paolo Pasolini”, a cura di/curated by Flavio Alivernini, Palazzo Incontro, Roma (cat. Fandango libri) “Premio Fondazione VAF”, a cura di/curated by Volker W. Feierabend, Silvia Holler, Norbert Nobis, Peter Weiermair, Klaus Wolbert, CIAC Centro Internazionale per l'Arte Contemporanea, Castello Colonna di Genazzano; Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen; Stadtgalerie, Kiel (cat.) “Portonaccio, Artisti in condominio”, a cura di/curated by Achille Bonito Oliva studi di Via Arimondi n.3, Roma (cat.) “Ditelo con i fiori”, a cura di/curated by Claudio Libero Pisano, CIAC Centro Internazionale per l'Arte Contemporanea, Castello Colonna di Genazzano 2011 “The Shadow Line”, a cura di/curated by Valentina Casacchia, L.E.S Gallery, CSV Center, New York “Brooklyn Boudoir”, a cura di/curated by Valentina Casacchia, Studio 400, New York “Via Arimondi”, a cura di/curated by Shara Wasserman e Mauro Di Silvestre, Temple Gallery – Temple University, Roma 2010 “Che cento fiori sboccino...”, a cura di/curated by Roberto Gramiccia, La Nuova Pesa Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Roma 2009 “Sursum Corda”, a cura di/curated by Cinzia Fratucello, Interno Ventidue Arte Contemporanea, Roma 2008 “Falce e Martello, Simboli di ferro”, a cura di/curated by Daniele Arzenta, Giorgia Calò, Roberto Gramiccia, MUSPAC, Museo Sperimentale d'Arte Contemporanea de L'Aquila (cat. Edizioni Horti Lamiani Bettivò) 2007 Opera selezionata per la campagna abbonamenti Teatro Ambra Jovinelli, Roma “Detour the Moleskine city notebook”, a cura di/curated by Raffaella Guidobono, Londra 2006 “Premio Vasto. Vertigini, il fantastico oggettuale”, a cura di/curated by Silvia Pegoraro, Vasto (cat.) Vincitrice del primo premio “Lʼaltra metà del lavoro”, a cura di/curated by Pino Casagrande, Presidente di Giuria Paolo Balmas, Palazzo della Cancelleria, Roma (cat.) “Sottovetro”, a cura di/curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Cafè Dagnino - Galleria Esedra, Roma (cat.) 2005 “S/AGO/ME 547”, a cura di/curated by Paola...

Mindstream 46 36 x 36 x 2 inch round Mixed Media/Resin on Wood Acquired by artists studio Signed by artist, verso A colorful collage by James Verbicky. Composed of a variety of materials that create an eclectic, multi-dimensional, and thought provoking artwork. James Verbicky (b. 1973) is a contemporary painter and mixed media artist who lived the majority of his early life in British Columbia before immigrating to the United States in the early 2000s. He struggled with legal status for many years before finally being awarded the ‘Extraordinary Ability’ Green card due to his extensive involvement with a wide range of museums, galleries, publications, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropic endeavors. In 2008, his work was selected for a 110 year-old juried exhibition at the Louvre with the Societie Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Shortly after his exhibition in Paris, James found inspiration among the magazine vendors along the Seine, Verbicky at which point he began creating media paintings. These complex and sculptural mixed media artworks became his vessels for communicating about a society oversaturated by media. By utilizing rare historical content, including both obsolete and persisting brands and advertisements, as well as vintage graphics...

Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which the artist recovers and uses in a creative and ingenious way. ...

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