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Artists Registry
New York NY United States
Artist's Statement
As a long time resident of Battery Park City, Petracca was profoundly moved by the recovery effort that took place in his backyard. In a 2002 exhibition, he offered us fragments of information on the constantly changing landscape downtown. He portrayed the World Trade Center as The Beacons illuminating the area at night, and depicted the immediate aftermath of 9/11 when a steel exterior facade stood eclipsed by a giant crane in Terrible Beauty. The highly charged rebuilding process was summarized in Hardhats 24/7 GZ and Derricks. Petracca captured a transitory moment in time as his neighborhood rebuilds.
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ANTONIO PETRACCA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Italian American Museum, New York, NY
2014 ‘Mezzogiorno’ Kim Foster Gallery, NY
2011 ‘10’ Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
2010 ‘From Here To There’ Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY
2009 ‘Overlay’ Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
2008 ‘Identity Theft’ Garibaldi Meucci Museum, Staten Island, NY
2007 ‘Pompeii Tagged’ Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
2006 ‘Identity Theft’ Italian American Museum, New York, NY
2005 ‘These are not my Shoes’ (Queste non sono mie Scarpe), Kim Foster Gallery, NYC
2003 ‘Intangible Presence’ Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY
2002 ‘Forecast: Sunny & Clear High in the Low 80s’ Kim Foster Gallery, NYC
2000 'Space Constructed' Kim Foster Gallery, NYC
1999 'Architectonic' Galerie Bhak, Seoul, Korea
1997 'Architectonic' Kim Foster Gallery, NYC
'Back from the Future' Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY
1995 'Heavy/Light' Kim Foster Gallery, NYC
'Objects and Apparitions' Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY
1991 'Chance Glance' Cleaver Callahan Gallery, NYC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 IAVA at Casa Italiana, New York University, NY
2014 Garibaldi Meucci Museum, Staten Island, NY
2012 “Social Structures” at CONTEXT Art Miami, curator Nicholas Cohn Art Projects.
2011 “IAVANET” Calandra Institute Queens College, New York, NY
2010 “Nature Calls” Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, NJ curator Dominick Lombardi
2006 ‘Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape’ Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
‘Terrain,’ Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
2005 ‘The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Environment’ Lehman College Art Gallery, NY
2004 ‘Landscape 2’ Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, Florida
2003/4/5 U.S. State Department, Art In Embassies Program, US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela
2002 ‘Voyage’ Flowers East Gallery, London, UK
‘Woodwork’ Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
2000 'Elbow Room: Manhattan's Public Spaces in Recent Art' curated by Grady T. Turner, NYC
1998 'The Waking Dream' curated by Dominick Lombardi and Steve Lowy,
Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY
'Camera Ready?' Kim Foster Gallery, NYC
1997 '4 Artists From New York' Galerie Bhak, Seoul, Korea
1996 Spazi Contemporary Art, Housatonic, MA
1994 Tribeca Towers Exhibition, sponsored by Art Initiative, NYC
'Isn't It Romantic?' curated by Michael Walls, On Crosby St., NYC
'Definitive Decade' Aljira Arts Center, Newark, NJ
1993 'Putt Modernism', Artists Space, NYC
1992 'Neurotic Art Show' Artists Space, NYC
'The Other Landscape' Tribeca 148 Gallery, sponsored by Art Initiative, NYC
1991 'Message to the Future', SUNY College, Oswego, NY
New York State Art Exhibit, Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1990 'Contemporary Landscape', Cleaver Callahan Gallery, NYC
'No Trends', Nahan Contemporary, curated by Robert C. Morgan, NYC
'Altered Landscapes’ Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
Education
BFA/MFA Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
Public Collections
National September 11 Memorial and Museum, New York, NY
The New York Historical Society, New York, NY
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Museo Internacional de Electrografia, Spain
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
ASCAP, New York, NY
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Health & Hospitals Corporation, New York, NY
Hutchins Y & R Corporation, Rochester, NY
Medallion Funding Corporation, New York, NY
Mobil Chemical Corporation
Xerox Corporation
Commissions / Grants / Special Projects
Who's Who in American Art
2003/4/5 U.S. State Department, Art In Embassies Program, US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela
1993 Putt Modernism, Artists Space traveling exhibit, designed hole #5 of artist
Miniature golf course.
1992 Art Matters Inc.; grant recipient, New York, NY
MTA Arts for Transit, mural installation at Jay Street-Burough Hall subway station.
Best of Show, Casa Italiana, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
1986 Special Arts Award, Arts Council for Rochester
1976-86 Founder and Executive Director of Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY
Selected Bibliography
“OGGI7, Antonio Petracca at Meucci-Garibaldi Museum, review by Vincenzo Mignino, 11/11/2007
Culture Catch, review by Dominick Lombardi, May 2007
Chelsea Now, “Kindling the Spirits” review by Jeff Wright, May 11, 2007
SUNY-TV, ITALICS The Italian American Magazine, Calandra Institute, episode #167, February, 2005
Democrat & Chronicle, ‘Antonio Petracca at Oxford Gallery,’ April 13, 2003
Art In America, ‘Antonio Petracca,’ review by Melissa Kuntz, January 2003
New York Times, ‘Antonio Petracca,’ review by Ken Johnson, September 13, 2002
Downtown Express, “Painting Architecturally” September 3-9, 2002
ARTnews, ‘The Many Faces of Realism: The Real Thing?’ (Cover story) by Ann Landi, June 2002
Albany Times Union, ‘Sculptural Heights: Technique and artistry in abundance at fine ‘Woodwork’ exhibit,’ review by William Jaeger, February 24, 2002
The New York Art World, ‘Antonio Petracca,’ review by Joyce Korotkin, January 2001
New York Art Magazine, ‘Antonio Petracca Space Constructed,’ review Elizabeth Neuman, Dec. 2000
Village Voice, Voice Choices, 'Elbow Room,' review by Kim Levin, August 8, 2000
New Yorker, 'Elbow Room,' review by Alexi Worth, August 6, 2000
Art Magazine Seoul, Korea, Misoolsidae ‘Architectonics,’ review October, 1999
Economic Seoul ‘Fall Season International Exhibitions,’ September 13, 1999
City Magazine Rochester, ‘Fine art: the Pyramid alternative at 20,’ review Ron Netsky, Dec. 16, 1997
ARTnews, ‘Antonio Petracca,’ review by Margaret Moorman, October 1997
Cover, ‘Peering Past the Mirror,’ review by Jeff Wright, September 1997
Review, ‘Antonio Petracca and the Order of Syntax’ review by Robert C. Morgan, May 1, 1997