Sabino Caputo

Sabino Caputo is seventy-five years young, happily sharing the joy of total submersion in the sea of paints. Sabino is not a novice with brushes. At the age of five or six, his parents gave him a paint set for Christmas; I'm sure he would have appreciated a toy truck instead. His parents saw something special in him and nurtured that talent. As a young boy he apprenticed with a local Artist in a small southern Italian town, painting landscapes and restoring/retouching "scary" frescos in old dark churches. In 1963, his family came to the United States. Two years later he attended NYCC where he majored in Advertising Art. He earned his living as an Art Director, designing and producing print ads and collateral advertising material for the next thirty seven years.

After retirement, he dusted off his brushes and resumed his passion, painting. It has become a full-time experience.

Is he a contemporary Artist? Depends on what the meaning of "Contemporary" is. His style today is a merging of the "Classic" and the "New", labelling it "Modern Realism."
His paintings contain both abstraction and representation. They are characterized by flatly painted geometric shapes in CMYK* derived mixtures of acrylic paint. Subjects are rea...

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Exibited:
Bay Shore/Brightwaters Library/Gallery: June 2011
Lucille Khornak Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY - July 2012 • Southhampton, NY 2012 Aug.
•Bay Shore/Brightwaters Library/Gallery: Sept. 2012
•Lucille Khornack Gallery: July 2013 - August
•Huntington Art Council, Gallery - Portraiture Competition
•East Islip Public Library/Gallery: Feb. 2014
•Lucille Khornak Gallery, July 2014 • Southhampton, NY
•Hilton Head Town Hall Gallery • 3 showings in a row
•Bluffton Public Library
•Hilton Head Rec Center