about the artist
Tony lives in Nyack, New York, with his wife and two children and teaches in the nearby Rye City School District where he has worked for thirteen years serving as the district’s Art & Design Department Coordinator. He has been an art educator for over twenty years with his earlier teaching experience in New York City where he had previously earned his Bachelor’s degree from New York University, his Art Education teaching credentials from the School of Visual Arts, and his MFA in figurative painting from the New York Academy of Art.
Designing programs for young artists to keep pace with newly available technology and techniques has informed Tony’s departure from classical rendering. Influenced by relief printmaking, graphic design, modernism, and romantic landscapes his work is inspired by moments where light, shadow, architecture, and nature align. He alters perception by dissolving visual details into a collection of cohesive shapes and colors to capture the atmosphere and essence of a location.
Prior to teaching, Tony worked as a fabricator in a cabinet making and machine shop executing work for artists, architects, and industrial designers in Hoboken and Manhattan. His love of the qualities of wood grain, it's contrast with flat color, the possibilities for using conventional building materials to make art, and a concern for surface quality, all stem from that experience.
Tony, seen here blocks from the Ponte Vecchio, enjoys a return trip to Italy with his family. It was on this vacation while contemplating the breadth of Giorgio Vasari's work, that he was inspired to start the direction of his current paintings.
about the work
The paintings in this series are all done on birch plywood panel. After working up a study as a digital illustration, each panel is chosen with careful consideration of the wood grain's relationship to the exposed areas in the composition to integrate with the layering of flat colors. Then the drawing is completed, the wood is finished, and the shapes are painted in with interior satin latex.
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