ANTONY GRAVIANO

Anthony Graviano's paintings appear to fuse an apocalyptic netherworld with a playground or nursery reminiscence out of some ideal childhood. This synthesis of innocence and Armageddon mirrors poet and visual artist William Blake's joining of contraries in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and like Blake, Graviano eschews satire and glibness in favor of the visionary, offering an artistic encounter that honors the world's fundamental paradoxes, complexity and fearsomeness, even as these seem to be thrown into starker relief with each passing day... The dualities Graviano deals with are echoed in his Holy Cave series, paintings in which an elegant topography trod upon by a procession of solemn figures contrasts with the stamped images of molecules that often hover in these works' foregrounds. The mixture of sweeping vistas, elegantly weathered rocky outcroppings and mottled intrusions of a more biological and/or technical nature (images of synapses, strands of DNA and fantastical..

Also known as: Anthony Graviano

Primary location: New York United States