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Antony Zito Air Filter Putto oil on cardboard, air filter frame 9.5" diameter x 4", 2004 Sunset & St.Marks The finest upcoming artists from Los Angeles and New York City. July 14 - August 7 Opening night with the artists: Friday, July 14th 6:00 - 9:00 pm Capla Kesting Fine Art 121 Roebling St, 7-8 - Brooklyn, NY 11211 phone: 917-650-3760 Bedford Ave L Train at the corner of North 5th and Roebling. |
The New York Post has called Zito's portrait paintings "sensuous"
and his renderings of people on materials other than canvas have prompted The
Village Voice to refer to him as "a master of the found object". A
dedicated resident of the Lower East Side, he is credited with founding the
Every Last Sunday art loop, a walking tour that features up to 30 independent
art studios and galleries each month. His paintings have been seen in The Sundance
Film Festival, Milk Studios, The National Arts Club, The American Museum of
Natural History, P.S. 122, Chelsea Market Arts Collective, Angel Orensanz Foundation
and Anthology Film Archives, to name a few. In May 2004, Zito's portrait of
Lee Marvin was featured along side The White Stripes in the United Artists film,
"Coffee and Cigarettes", directed by Jim Jarmusch, and he has contributed
2 pieces to the director's most recent movie, "Broken Flowers". His
tribute to the Mona Lisa - via Duchamp - was shown at Deitch Projects in Soho
and featured in the Fall Arts Issue of BlackBook magazine in 2004 . His illustrations
have been published in The New York Press and public murals by Zito include
the exterior walls of Lombardi's Pizza and The Spring Lounge in Little Italy.
After a recent trip through Spain and Italy, where several of his new pieces
have been collected, an extensive interview with the artist was published in
the magazine, Ortodoncia, out of Barcelona.
The second son of artists John and Rosemary Zito, Antony Zito was born on Mayday
1969. He grew up on a small farm in the woods of East Granby, Connecticut where
he was schooled by his parents from an early age in the pages of art history
and the halls of museums throughout the Northeast. As a young man his interest
in the Surrealists led him to develop a taste for diverse materials - "artifacts
of recent history". He graduated from the University of Massachusetts with
a BFA in Painting in 1991 and moved to New York City on Halloween Night 1992.
On the morning after a decadent evening at the Mars Bar in 1996, Zito awoke
to find a powerful self-portrait on a broken mirror that he had painted the
night before. He began collecting more found objects and coercing his friends
into sitting for him, a practice he continues to this day. This was the beginning
of his Visual History of the Lower East Side.
The fruit of a decade long dream, Zito Studio Gallery was opened on Ludlow Street
in January 2002 and was immediately noted by Time Out New York as being at the
forefront of the groundbreaking new gallery scene on the Lower East Side. As
indicated by the name, the exhibition space also acts as a public studio for
the artist, who can often be found working late into the night on his portrait
paintings which have been collected internationally.
Capla
Kesting Fine Art
121
Roebling St, 7-8 - Brooklyn, NY 11211
phone: 917-650-3760
Bedford Ave L Train at the corner of North 5th and Roebling.