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Brief Resume

                                          Adam.capone@gmail.com                                               www.adamcapone.com                                                  215-872-6126

 EDUCATION

  University of Chicago

         Master Fine Arts

            Concentration in sculpture   Tufts University/ School of the Museum of Fine Arts         Bachelor of Fine Arts                                                                                                                 printmaking,  painting and sculpture                  

          

WORK EXPERIENCE

Thea Flaum Productions/DIY TV network                   2006-07

     lead designer, builder and shop foreman for "Junky to Funky"

Reforce consulting                                                        2003-current

creative design consultant

Bullseye contracting                                                            2004-06

 cabinetry

University of Chicago

   Instructor Visual Language 102                                                       Spring 2004   Graduate Assistant                                                                                        2004      -Visual Language 102       -Sculpture 3 

School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

  Alumni recrutier                                                                                         2000-03

  Assistant instructor, foundations                                                                1998-00

  Teaching/ visiting artist assiistant                                                    sep 96-may 99

  Lab technician; print shop                                                    sep96-Jan 00

  

Contemporary Arts Center, North Adams Mass.

    teaching assistant/ lab technician for drawing                                      summer98 
Penland School of Arts and Crafts
    Studio/ teaching assisstant ;drawing                                               June/July 2000

 

 HONORS AND EXHIBITIONS  

Curator “Works On Paper”:                                             Jan. and Feb. 97

Curator “A Beautiful Show For Beautiful People Oni Gallery, Boston    April 99

Curator “Capone Asquith” at SMFA’s C Gallery:                                     June 99

Co-curator “You Are Worth It”, Atlanta’s Eyedrum Gallery:                 Jan. 2000

Co-curator “Club Level” The Gelb Gallery, Andover Mass.                April 2000

Assisted Christian Boltanski in ;  “Reflections”, exhibited at MFA August 2000

Speaker at Highland Park “Passion for the Arts” Consortium    March 04

Graduate fellowship- University of Chicago                              2001-2003

Post graduate teaching fellowship University of Chicago-                             2003              

Franke Institute  MFA shows                                       Sept. 2002 and Sept. 2003

“MFA Thesis exhibition” Gallery 312 Chicago                                     June 2003

“Emerging Artists” Lubesnik Center for the Arts, Michigan City         July 2003

Group show at ARC , Chicago                                                                       2004

Stray Show” with Mule Gallery                                                          Spring 2004

Appearance on PAX TV "For Her Information" : Spatial Solutions      Feb. 2005

"Works in Wood"  New Hope Arts Center                                                2008

"Sculpture New Hope"  New Hope Arts Center                                        2009

"Select Artists"         New Hope Arts Center                                              2009

2010 Bucks County Design House with Gacek Design Group                 2010

Sculpture New Hope New Hope Arts Center                                              2010

Helping Hands       New Hope Arts Center                                                 2010

Re-purposed furniture currently airing on 26 episodes of Junky To Funky on DIY network

 

Brief Statement. . .

It’s good to be home. I graduated from New Hope Solebury high school in 1995 and spent the next 12 years making and studying art in Boston and Chicago. I've been a sculptor, a carpenter, a professional wrestler, a teacher, and a furniture designer. Serendipity has brought me back to the area and it is with great relief that I find myself free from the spatially and mentally confining aspects of making art while living in a crowded city. It is great to be in a familiar place immersed in the beauty and the grit of making furniture, sculpture, and things that blur the lines between the two.
            I collect things; from the trash, junk shops, scrap piles and flea markets. I search for the things that others have given up hope on and I bring them back to my studio in the hills above Lambertville. I cut, dismantle, sand, grind, nail, break, fix, build, paint, sew, carve, salvage and re-purpose objects and materials to bring them new life; new hope.
            My work is often an attempt at animating these static forms. This happens through re contextualizing common objects so that they are experienced as a type of hybrid or object that is still coming into being. It is also accomplished more formally through disrupting our expectations of manmade objects by coupling, supporting and extending them with organic or seemingly illogical forms. I try to orchestrate sculptural situations in which various systems of logic and expectation cycle between forming and falling apart.
            Creating these things is a meditative process.  I try not to plan. I try to experience and react to the material and its form; to listen to them. Things catch my attention. I may see a figurative essence in a partially destroyed piece of furniture.  It may be the way that some chair legs imply motion, or how a heavy rusted door hinge resembles a fighters protruding jaw, both formally and poetically. I try not to impose my ego upon these materials but rather to use my hands and tools to bring out ,highlight and embellish upon whatever aspect of what I am working with has caught my imagination. These are challenges of cognition and pertain to mental processes and phenomena such as sensation, perception, attention, memory, problem solving, suspension of disbelief and reasoning. I feel that these phenomena are fundamental to a sculptural understanding and a sculptural process, and more universally to how people understand, categorize and negotiate the ontology of existence and their ability to fantasize.

Current Work

I am working on several freelance furniture projects. INCLUDING

  • Turning a 1940s Philco cabinet radio and a section of church seating into a throne-back chair
  • Building a set of lamps from salvaged wood and cigar boxes (influenced by Wright's Telisian lamps)
  • refinishing/ re building a 14ft section of oak church pue (great for a restaurant or bar and UNSOLD!)
  • Turning a 1950s cabinet tv into a unique compact art deco bar

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