NOUVEL OBJET VI

“My work is a metaphor for my views. I ask questions about being human, and my paintings reflect how I have come to terms with these questions. References can be found in my work to writing, calligraphy and music, to the macrocosm and microcosm, to highly charged energy and to form and formlessness. My work deals with freedom and the search for paprameters. It explores the relationship between order, chaos and the need to understand the true value and purpose of each in our lives.”

“Color continues to excite me. I emphasize it to establish and enhance the emotional fiber, as well as the visual and intellectual tenor of the work. To test the limits of ‘abstraction,’ I approach my paintings as three-dimensional wall constructions that transcend the square and the rectangle. I am convinced that the full potential of the painter’s creativity with dimensionality has yet to be realized. Color, dimensionality, and format are the primary variables I employ to discover my originality.”

Tony De Blasi was born in 1933, in Alcamo, Sicily and moved to the United States in 1938. He received a B.A. from the University of Rhode Island and an M.F.A. fro Indiana University. He was an Instructor at the School of Visual Arts, in New York, from 1988 to 1990. In 1988 he had a solo exhibition at the fine Arts Gallery of the State University of New York, Oneonta. He has had over 25 solo exhibitions. He won First Prize at the Chautauqua Exhibition of American Art, in New York, in 1967. His work is in the collections of the Detroit Institure of Arts, the Ulrich Museum of Art, in Wichita, Kansas, and the Kresge Art Museum, in East Lansing, Michigan.