carmine santaniello

carmine santaniello

Kew Gardens, NY, United States

About carmine santaniello

New York-based artist Carmine Santaniello has exhibited nationally and internationally, with work appearing in numerous publications in the US and Europe. The Art of Man magazine USA, Mascular magazine UK, Boner magazine Germany, Character magazine France, Noisy Rain and Spunk magazines to name a few. His art is in the private collection of Charles Leslie as well as the permanent collection of the Leslie Lohman Museum and The Library of Congress in Washington DC. In addition, he shows with Mooi-Man Gay Male Art Gallery, The Netherlands, ChimMaya Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Collage is an integral part of his art and is usually the starting point for each work. Employing the traditional method of cut and glued paper, he creates new faces out of amassed facial images. While incorporating elements of his own photographs of exterior environments such as graffiti or street art. “I love the contrast of the beautiful male form in a somewhat marred, abstract urban setting” remarks Santaniello. Some works remain as collage, some become drawings, some are incorporated into artist books or articulated paper dolls, but most become monoprints utilizing lithography. Through the juxtaposition of techniques and mediums, he creates evocatively charged works of art. Artist Statement: My recent monoprints utilize urban images that I photograph along with handmade papers through a printmaking process - Paper Lithography. Currently I am using this process and turning my prints into collages to create new works of art inspired by the decay of urban environments. Encouraged by graffiti, street art, natural marred antiquated urban surfaces. These latest collages were the culmination of inspiration from a recent artist residency in Venice, Italy.

Education:

His formal education includes the High School of Art and Design and The School of Visual Arts, and he holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design.

Events:

Artist Residency Venice, Italy 2018 at Palazzo Ca’Zanardi
November 4 - 17, 2018

Metrosource Magazine
Reclaiming My Pride Art Show, NYC
Honorable Mention 2018

Exhibitions:

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2019-2000

METROSOURCE MAGAZINE
Reclaiming My Pride Art Show, NYC

LIC ARTS OPEN 2018 Long Island City, NY

I AM NOT A LABEL, ChimMaya Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

BOY BORDELLO, Prince Street Project Space, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, NYC

LEATHER PRIDE BELGIUM, Galerie Mooiman Gay Male Art Gallery, The Netherlands

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR AMSTERDAM, Galerie Mooiman Gay Male Art Gallery, The Netherlands

COLLAGE ETCETERA, Two Man Show, PSPS Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Curated by Charles Leslie, NYC

FOURTH ANNUAL OUT & OUT SHOW, ChimMaya Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

EROTIC~LATINO/LATINA CELEBRACION!, ANTEBELLUM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

WORKS ON PAPER, Solo Show,
Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC

LITHOGRAPHY: HERE & NOW, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Worshop, NYC

PARSONS REUNION ALUMNI EXHIBITION, Arnold and Shelia Aronson Galleries, NYC

OLYMPIC CHALLENGE, Adonis Art Gallery, London, UK

BEFORE THE RAINBOW, Chelsea Eye Gallery, NYC, Curated by Tracy Von Becker-Legge

FRAMING AIDS, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY, Curated by Hector Canonge

SELECTED MONOPRINTS AND COLLAGE, Solo Show,
Delaware Arts Center, Narrowburg, NY