Saturday January 23-Sunday February 28, 2021
16080 Highway 19Inverness NS Canada
Measures of Absence
UncategorizedAuthor: Anthony Clementi
Covid 19 Series: The Lovers
LoversWhile looking through Youtube videos of Covid stories I came upon the screenshot of a couple in Chicago Healthcare workers that found out in the midst of the Pandemic that she was pregnant, I thought about all the couples whose life have been altered by the crisis and began work on the painting.
Art of The Isolation: Issue 1 and 6, curated by Cole Giordano.
UncategorizedSmall ” r “Recovery
EndangeredIn 2014 , the Brown Bat population of Nova Scotia was decimated by “white nose fungus”; 95% of the population was wiped out and even since have been making a modest recovery, what one scientist called a “small r recovery. At the same time, I read about incidents in Australia where mysteriously , bats were falling from the sky, dead. At the time I did a Painting of the fallen bats.
This painting , which I had forgotten about in storage came to mind when I was reading about the Wuhan Markets that were selling ( secretly ) endangered Pangolins , that might have been infected with Covid-19 through the bite of a bat. Americans were railing against the Chinese for “eating bats” ,even though many in the rural areas eat squirrels and opossum. The Pangolin, which resembles an armadillo , also eaten in the Southwest, has been called an artichoke on four legs because one eats the scales. Perhaps a future painting
Addendum: April 1
Story in the New York Times indicating that researchers are casting doubt on the Pangolin’s role in the current pandemic.
Paintings: 2020
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Covid 19 Series: Man In Red Poncho, Acrylic on Canvas, 40X30″ 2020
Covid 19 Series: Take Five, Korea, 40×30″, 2020.
Undocumented / Separated
UncategorizedSince the first days of the Trump Administration, The Southern Border of the United States has become a Crisis Zone. Cruel Tactics by the U.S. Government have created what some have called “concentration camps for migrants, Stranded Mothers and children on the Mexican Side of the Border, many of them from Central America. People have been tear gassed, have been subject to DNA tests and children have been separated from their parents.
Seperated: Miriam, Inez and Rosalita, 2018,; Lineup at Eagle Pass, 2020.
Tijuana
Tijuana: Running Man, , Man With Rug, Tear Gas I, Tear Gas II, 2018, Tear Gas III.
Ice
ICE Series: Partners, Questions, A Knock at the Door and Shining A Light, 2017.
ANTHONY CLEMENTI Paintings
UncategorizedANTHONY CLEMENTI
“Clementi’s painterly interpretations of sites of catastrophes are depicted with a critical (and perhaps deliberately neutral) gaze that lifts his carefully rendered eerie realities to a level of social protest. In what appears to be a rapid perhaps even urgent application of pigment, he describes visual truths in a manner that alludes to the transient visual vocabularies of journalistic/ documentary verisimilitude.
His are dire warnings of the approaching dystopia that may, in fact, have already arrived. ”
Tom Smart
CAPTURE 2014: Nova Scotia Realism
“A contemporary preoccupation with painters in general, let alone realists, is the concept of fragmented reality. The unreal in the real. Something is broken and can’t be fixed, therefore man continues to go through the existential motions of life. Clementi has stayed one step ahead of that slow and methodological position of the old realist strategy (that of Robert Henri’s journalist/artist plodding through the mud), and picks up the broken pieces of the visual world which are then in turn used to address the social and the immediate. The artist makes us stop and take note of the urgency behind the history of social realism as it takes place both in and beyond our borders today. “
Steven Rhude
ANTHONY CLEMENTI has been an artist, exhibition curator and art educator for more than 30 years. He participated in more than 60 exhibitions in North America and Europe. He has taught at Pratt Institute , Nassau College , New York Institute of Technology and the College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York and Mount Saint Vincent University in Nova Scotia , Canada. He has been a Executive Director of the Children’s Museum in Utica New York, and has curated exhibitions in Manhattan and Long Island, New York.
He presently lives and works in Nova Scotia, Canada with his wife Patricia Caryi.
Contact: clementianthony52@gmail.com
Phone: 902 850-2208 Cell:902 497-4436
Alone at Acadia Online Opening February 10, 2021 7pm (All are Invited)
This pandemic has shown how integral art is to our daily lives, sense of community and well- being. This curated exhibition presents the work of 18 Nova Scotian artists whose work responds to, reflects on the impacts of covid-19.
The online exhibition and related programming will be launched on February 10th.
Established in 1978, the Acadia University Art Gallery is a space for research, dialogue and community engagement with art.
artists: Rose Adams, Wayne Boucher, Geoff Butler, Louis-Charles Dionne, Frances Dorsey, Toni Clementi, Brandt Eisner, Celine Gabrielle, Annik Gaudet, Francois Gaudet, Bob Hainstock, Basma Kavanagh, Laura Kenney, Alexandra McCurdy, Bill Shaw, Susan Tooke, Miya Turnbull, Christopher Webb.
Virtual Exhibition At Link Below
http://gallery.acadiau.ca/Acadia_Art_Gallery/Exhibitions.html Click Exhibitions and scroll to 2021 for Virtual Exhibition.
Centenarians
UncategorizedLiving in Atlantic Canada, one meets many folks who reached the century milestone. . Every night on the local news they are congratulated for another year on earth. In keeping with my series of portraits, I have been painting some representative people, some famous, some obscure. . Many of them are active and engaged like Zoltan, 107 from Toronto who makes violins.
Installation View , Chase Gallery, 2018.
Trumpies
UncategorizedBefore the election I started to see more and more young people at Trump Rallies. Some from the Rust Belt, others from the South and Southwest, they seem to be in the contemplating a dim future, stolen by unknown forces and seeking retribution. Having just been to Italy where I had seen many Renaissance Portraits, some famous others obscure, I became interested in doing portraits. I collected many images of young people, isolated them and painted them to suggest different stylistic approaches, some linear and others painterly. Of course my hope was that Trump would not be elected but he was and I believe these “saints” hold a key to why, despite loosing the popular vote, he won an electoral victory by small margins in the industrial Midwest.
Trumpies: Saints: No. 1 through 4, 2016
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