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Writing
John Maggiotto
Height: 36\"
Width: 36\"
Depth: 3/8\"
Medium: Silver gelatin on marble 12\" sq.tiles
Bonded museum rail support on each tile
Location: Available, Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT
A giclee print in two editions of 99 is available, 12\" and 22\". |
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Hollywood Pilot, 2005
John Maggiotto
Height: 36\"
Width: 36\"
Depth: 3/8\"
Medium: Silver gelatin on marble 12\" sq.tiles
Bonded museum rail support on each tile
Location: available, Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT |
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John Maggiotto
Height: 36\"
Width: 36\"
Depth: 3/8\"
Medium: Silver gelatin on marble 12\" sq.tiles
Bonded museum rail support on each tile
Location: Available, at the studio, Dobbs Ferry, NY
A giclee print in two editions of 99 is available, 12\" and 22\". |
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The Bride, 2004
John Maggiotto
Height: 19.5\"
Width: 19.5\"
Depth: 3/8\"
Medium: Silver gelatin on painted wood panel.
Location: available |
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Biography
John Maggiotto is an American artist, born into a large family from Buffalo, New York. At the age of eleven, his father taught him the basics of photographic development. In college, Mr. Maggiotto's interest in photography followed a fine art approach. He chose the then recently introduced Polaroid SX-70 camera as his sole instrument of production. His instructors dismissed his choice as "not serious." His work was exclusively about television, and the painterly color palette of the Polaroid format. Mr. Maggiotto was part of the collective of artists who formed the alternative space Hallwalls in the late seventies. Here his work was recognized and included in the 1979 Albright-Knox Art Gallery exhibition In Western New York, curated by Linda Cathcart and Charlotta Kotik. In 1980 he moved to Washington, DC to work at the National Endowment for the Arts.
Abandoning the traditional paper based photograph, Mr. Maggiotto began to print his work on large plates of plaster, a true departure from the precious, intimate realm of the SX-70's three inch square. As in the earlier work he takes the imagery from television. An on-going exploration into the memory of mediated experience, the imagery follows heroes, thieves, women in need…the gamut of lives not lived but watched. This productive time was capped by his first one-person show at Laurence Miller Gallery in Soho. Living near one of New York's premiere marble yards led to this current body of work. Marble is a metamorphic rock, natural forces change it from its original form to its present state. Mr. Maggiotto changes the meaning of images he finds in one context, and recombines them into another. The work has presently progressed to a series of prints based on marble works. Choosing iconography from our collective memory of television and movie images he underscores the great American themes of heroism, honor, strength and perseverance.
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Solo Exhibitions
2003 Gallery at Chappaqua Library, Chappaqua, NY
2003 Deborah Davis Fine Arts, Hudson, NY
2001 The Studio Annex, NYC
2001 Industry, A Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2000 An American Space, NY, NY
1998 Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
1997 Gallery at Chappaqua Library, Chappaqua, NY
1990 Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1985 White Columns, New York, NY
1984 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, (LACE)
1983 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, (LAICA)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 Gallery on Hudson, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
2003 The Horse Show, Northern Westchester Center for the Arts
2002 The Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY
2000 THE STUDIO, Armonk NY
2000 Ordinary/Extrodinary, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY
1997 "Black & White", Graphics Gallery, Scarsdale, NY
1993 Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1992 "We Interrupt Your...Program" White Columns, NYC
1991 "Cinematic Effect" Lintas Worldwide HQ, NY, NY
1989 "Nature and Culture" Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
1989 "Sequence(Con)sequences" Bard College, Annondale, New
1988 "Twenty in New York"Nina Freudenhiem Gallery, Buffalo
1988 "Rethinking American Myths" Laurence Miller Gallery, NY (toured)
1988 "Quadriphoto"Frank Bernarducci Gallery, NYC.
1988 "The Photo Ostensive" Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1988 "Retrospection"Art in General, New York, N.Y.
1987 "Avant-Garde in the Eighties", L. A. County Museum of Art
1986 "Acceptable Entertainment", Bruno Facchetti Gallery, NYC.
1986 "T.V. Generation", L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA
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