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EMANUELE CACCIATORE, Paintings

EMANUELE CACCIATORE
New York area artist Emanuele Cacciatore is a "painter's painter."  In complete command of the tools of his trade, Emanuele uses his brushes, knives and even stencils to build up the rich surfaces of his paintings.  He creates works that paradoxically look as if they were excavated by a diligent archeologist, and yet, as Emanuele points out, are "by no means simply about process."  Rather, his painterly investigations ponder the very nature of the transience of experience.  "I consider real time," says the artist, "every second of every day, as sublime and worthy of consideration.
 
These methods challenge traditional notions of painting and belie a search for a deeper meaning.  The paintings are not images of something else; they are documentation of the act of painting.  This is a true realism – not paint looking like naturalistic imagery, but rather a meditation on paint and the act of painting. The work is not expressionistic in nature but “experience born into paint,” meaning the paint and forms in and of themselves embody the experience.
 
Emanuele Cacciatore has extensively exhibited his work in museums and galleries for over twenty years with shows in both Europe and the United States at museums and galleries such as the Asyl Gallery and Lannon Gallery in New York City; Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Hallwalls Gallery in Buffalo, New York; Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey; The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey; Contemporary Arts Forum and Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California; Natalie Bush Gallery, San Diego, California; Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California; and the Galerie Maurice Gabriel Francois, Paris, France.  
 
Cacciatore has also been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the prestigious Armand Hammer Award in Visual Art from the Los Angeles Arts Council and has had monoprints published by the Garner Tullis Workshop in New York City.  He was born in Buffalo, New York and received his B.F.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his M.F.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

TONY CALTABIANO
Los Angeles area artist Tony Caltabiano uses a broad collection of cameras ranging from the antique to late 20th century to capture the natural landscape.  He explores some of the lesser-known wilderness areas on the fringes of urban sprawl in California.  

The images rarely refer to a specific location. They may point to places both distant, and nearby, all the while reaching toward the remote and anonymous places within the viewer.  The artist seeks not only to capture the physical realm, but also to move beyond to a higher place. The images are more than just the landscape. The world experienced through the lens is where he encounters the intimacy of the landscape face to face. Below the echoes of man-made thunder, the wilderness whispers in its private vocabulary.
In this communion he finds the deeper beauties of reality.
 
After printing the images, he often works back into them with oil and acrylic glazes.  Through a process of painting, the emerging landscapes become more than photographic images. Reviewers have described his work as "beautifully melancholic".
 
Tony Caltabiano has exhibited his work widely in California galleries since his graduation with a Bachelors of Science in Fine Art from Biola University, La Mirada, California in 1992.