Atlas 2015
adam.capone@gmail.com www.adamcapone. com 215-872-6126
EDUCATION
University of Chicago Master Fine ArtsConcentration in sculpture
Tufts University/ School of the Museum of Fine ArtsBachelor of Fine Arts
WORK EXPERIENCE
Site Supervisor Raritan valley habitat for humanity current
Repurposed Furniture and sculptureLambertville home/studio... 2010- current
Opiary design studio sculptor /structural design 2013-
Thea Flaum Prod./DIY TV lead designer/builder, for "Junky to Funky" 2006-08
Reforce consulting creative design consultant 2003-current
University of Chicago Instructor Visual Language 102 Spring 2004
Graduate Assistant -Sculpture 3 2003-2004
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Alumni recruiter 2000-03
Assistant instructor, foundations 1998-00
Teaching/ visiting artist assistant sep 96-may 99
Lab technician; print shop sep96-Jan 00
Contemporary Arts Center, North Adams Mass. teaching assistant/ lab technician summer98
Penland School of Arts and Crafts Studio/ teaching asst ;drawing June/July 2000
HONORS AND EXHIBITIONS
“Works On Paper”: smfa Boston Jan. and Feb. 97
“A Beautiful Show For Beautiful People Oni Gallery, Boston April 99
Curator “Capone Asquith” at SMFA’s C Gallery: June 99
Co-curator “You Are Worth It”, Atlanta’s Eyedrum Gallery: Jan. 2000
Co-curator “Club Level” The Gelb Gallery, Andover Mass. April 2000
Assisted Christian Boltanski in ; “Reflections”, exhibited at MFA August 2000
Speaker at Highland Park “Passion for the Arts” Consortium March 04
Graduate fellowship- University of Chicago 2001-2003
Post graduate teaching fellowship University of Chicago- 2003
Franke InstituteMFA shows Sept. 2002 and Sept. 2003
“MFA Thesis exhibition” Gallery 312 Chicago June 2003
“Emerging Artists” Lubesnik Center for the Arts, Michigan City July 2003
Group show at ARC , Chicago 2004
Stray Show” with Mule Gallery Spring 2004
Appearance on PAX TV "For Her Information" : Spatial Solutions Feb. 2005
Re-purposed furniture Junky To Funky DIY network 07-08
"Select Artists" New Hope Arts Center 2009 2010
Bucks County Design House with Gacek Design Group 2010
Helping Hands New Hope Arts Center 2010
ARTifact, Las Vegas NV 2012-current
The Wood Collective, The A Space, New Hope Pa. 2014, 15
"Works in Wood" New Hope Arts Center (best sculpture 2011, 2015) 2008-2018
"Sculpture New Hope" New Hope Arts Center(best sculpture award 2011, 2014,2015) 2009 -2018
Naked In NewHope, Side Tracks Gallery, New Hope PA.
(Robin Larsen award 2015, gallery award 2016) 2014,15,16,17
Transformations, Side Tracks Gallery , New Hope Pa. (solo) 2015
Chasm, Fraser St Gallery, State College PA. 2015
Hunterdon Art Tour, Hunterdon Art Museum Clinton Nj 2017
FaceMaps, Trenton City Museum , Trenton NJ 2017
Solo Exhibition SideTracks Art NewHope Pa. opens april7 2018
Brief Statement. . .
I feel a bit like Doctor Frankenstein. I find these corpses; furniture, architectural remnants . I dissect them. I find something that resembles a wing or an ear & notice that two disparate furniture parts align to simulate a toothy grin. I try to set my ego aside and allow these materials to conduct their ownweddings and to assemble some form of character, of archetype, some form of meaning. Then I cut, sand, grind, bolt, sew, paint and burn. I think of these objects as totems, symbols and incantations. I measure their geometric composition and try to animate it in subliminal ways. I allow a square to behave like a circle or a star to distort to the left. I try to help a table leg evoke the nose of an ancient god or to help the viewer to think of an oak mid 19th century doorway rosette as the eye of a phoenix. I'm interested in the suspension of disbelief, objects that are coming into being, symbols that are incomplete, unexpected asymmetry. These objects are very much about the cognitive process of imagination, suspension of disbelief , how sculpture can manipulate our ontological mapping of the objects around us, and how we complete symbols to create meaning.