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Midnight Matinee, Ceramic and Found Object Assemblage Sculpture

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Artist statement: During the summers in Connecticut when I was a pre-teen, I lived for playing baseball. I grew up on a farm and had to work hard, but I always made time for baseball. I played everyday and sometimes even slept with my glove underneath my pillow. I dreamed of playing professionally for the New York Yankees. The only thing that dragged me away from playing baseball was an arts and craft’s class in my school’s summer program. On Tuesday afternoon, after lunch, baseball was on hold for arts and crafts. In my first class, they taught us how to make pot holders and build things with Popsicle sticks by gluing them together. It was so much fun. I guess this was the earliest telling of what was to unfold in the future years. I continued to play semi-pro baseball until the age of 38. I was also into weightlifting and even placed in a national competition. Sports and art have always been my passions. I was willing to put sports on hold for my art, though. And sports have always influenced my artwork. My first great influence in art was my craft teacher in high school, Shirley Charron. I was not an “A” student by any means and I did not excel in math or science. Ms. Charron knew I wasn’t a great student and encouraged me to apply for art school at Silvermine College of Arts. The college was holding interviews and all I had to do was make an appointment and bring my artwork. I was excited to find out that they didn’t need to know my S.A.T. scores. So I met with Dean Bob Gray and he liked my artwork. I became a student at the Silvermine College and received my Associate’s Degree from there. I went on to the Maryland Institute of Art where I received my Bachelor of Arts degree. I met several students from various backgrounds and different countries. I was fortunate for having great teachers and mentors along the way. Visiting artists were a big influence to me, as well. My college years helped greatly, keeping me out of the ‘real world’ and into the realm of creativity and free­ flowing ideas. After receiving my Masters Degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1977. I stayed in Chicago. I became ‘so-to-speak’ a “Chicago” artist, living in lofts, dreaming the dreams of becoming known and reaching for the stars. I was still quite naïve at the age of 30. Luckily, I kept my day job as a cleaning man. I worked hard during those years after graduate school and still do 28 years later. During those 28 years, I tried out for the Chicago White Sox at the age of 31 and entered state and national weightlifting competitions at the age of 52. But just as a pre-teen, the thought of creativity moved me into new realms. I, once again, decided to put athletics on the back burner and pursue my work as an artist. The new sculptures and pieces give me a strength and a sense of being. Philip Capuano b. 1948, Norwalk, CT Education 1978 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Fine Arts, Ceramics 1972 Maryland Institute College of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Baltimore, MD 1969 Silvermine College of Art, Assoc of Fine Art, Silvermine-Ridgefield, CT 1967 Norwalk High School, Norwalk, CT Exhibitions 2022 Kiss Me, It’s Snowing, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2018 Group Show, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 Cosmic Current, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2014 Group Show, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2013 Cardboard Show, Bridgeport Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Group Show, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL Chatterbox Fiction, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL 2012 Group Show, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2009 Sculptures-Photos, Northbranch Gallery, Skokie, IL 2007 Group Show, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2005 Ceramic Conference, M.A.P. Gallery, National Invitational, Baltimore, MD Maryland Institute College of Art Visiting Artist, Computer Department, Baltimore, MD 2004 Group Show, Gallery Merz, Sag Harbor, NY 2003 Two-Person Show, Gallery Merz, Sag Harbor, NY 2002 Art Forum, Woodstock, NY 1989 Sibil Lamey Gallery, Chicago, IL Maryland Institute College of Art, Visiting Artist, Ceramic Department, Baltimore, MD 1988 Group Show, Beacon St. Gallery, Chicago, IL 1986 Summer Show, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1985 Struve Gallery, New Art Forms, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 1984 Struve Gallery, New Art Forms, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 1983 Struve Gallery, New Art Forms, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Illinois Arts Council Grant, Chicago, IL 1982 Struve Gallery, New Art Forms, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 1981 Struve Gallery, New Art Forms, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 1980 Group Show, Frompkin and Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL Zariny-Hays, Film Viewing, Chicago, IL Norwalk High School, Visiting Artist, Norwalk, CT 1977 Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Slusser Gallery (University of Michigan), Group Show, Chicago Clay, Ann Arbor, MI Art Institute of Chicago, Midwest Open Screening, Chicago, IL Ann Arbor Film festival (Cash Reward), Ann Arbor, MI Name Gallery, Film Group, Open Screening, Winter & Spring 1975 Art Institute of Chicago, Midwest Open Screening, Chicago, IL 1974 Super Mud Ceramic Conference, Invitational, Rising Artist, Niagara Falls, NY 1972 Group Show, Reed Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1972 Group Show, Nostalgia Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1971 Maryland Institute College of Art, Ceramic Dept Show, Baltimore, MD
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