Joe Tantillo

Joe Tantillo’s art has taken him down many paths. He loves to photograph the natural world. He also loved to create abstract paintings and now digital photo-montages. He found, over time, that he needed to satisfy an inner desire of his own image-journey using the new media tools that he learned as a graphic designer. Although he had migrated from painting to photography, he still wanted something more painterly and less photographic to tint these works. From his collection of original digital photographs, he could see that there was more than appears in these images, and through digital means he is able to recombine numerous photos, along with adding drawings, to make unique unconventional images that express what he wanted in his work. By subtle digital manipulation of the color, he was able to evoke an image that he felt was completely his. It is the journey the image makes that matters most to him. The processes can constantly change as his world does, and this has given him great joy.

BFA Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 1974

Solo Shows:
Millbrook, New York, The Upstairs Gallery, “Recent Works”, 2002
Spring Valley, New York, Finkelstein Memorial Library, “”Recent Works”, 2003
Springfield, Vermont, The Miller Art Center, “Recent Works” 2006
Springfield, Vermont, Gallery at the VAULT, “Dancing With the Sun” 2006
Millbrook, New York, Millbrook Library, “Images of Ireland” 2008

Shows (2 person):
Bethel, Connecticut, Bethel Photoworks “Images of Ireland” 2001
Springfield, Vermont, The Miller Art Center, “Recent Works” 2004

Shows (3 person):
New York City, New York, Nexus Gallery, “To Observe & Imagine” 2001
Springfield, Vermont, Gallery at the VAULT, “Historic Past Enduring Land”, 2003

Shows (group)
Norwich, Connecticut, “23rd Connecticut Artists Show”, 1975
Hartford, Connecticut, “65th Annual Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts Show” 1975
West Haven, Connecticut, Studio 67 Gallery
West Haven, Connecticut, Five Edwards Street Gallery
Hyde Park, New York, Vanderbilt Estate” Annual Arts in the Gardens” 2000
Beacon, New York, Howland Cultural Center, Members Show, 2001
New York City, New York, Center for Digital Art, “The Small Works Show”, 2001
New York City, New York, Nexus Gallery, “Digital Wallpaper”, 2002
Mahopac, New York, Putnam...