Biomorphic Form with Appendage

2006, graphite on herculene, 21" x 24”h, photo by John Dowling

Anne Novado Cappuccilli’s work is a sensitive, exploratory celebration of materials.  She presents us with intricate surfaces and indulgent mark making.  Of her drawings, Novado Cappuccilli states “These drawings occupy a curious place where the viewer often tries to identify something in them that is recognizable, but as these are my inventions the familiar association stops short.” What exactly we are looking at may be open ended but what resonates in both Novado Cappuccilli’s biomorphic drawings and her ‘inlaid paintings’ is a sense of inevitable change.  Her work is about organic growth, about things breaking down, and even about things being built back up. The viewer is reminded that everything, whether microscopic or cosmic, whether organic or manmade, is in a state of flux. 

Works from a Curious Observer is a poetic exhibition of curiosities that are vague, lovely and meditative.

Anne Novado Cappuccilli is an adjunct professor of art at Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College.  She is also curator at Limestone Art Gallery in Fayetteville, NY.  Novado Cappuccilli received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration in 1990, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Syracuse University in 2004.  She maintains an art studio near her home in Solvay. 

            Recent exhibitions include: The Everson Museum of Art 2008 Biennial “The Object and Beyond”, Iceland’s Gallery Svartaloft “Light Night 2007” festival exhibition, the Essex Art Center’s juried exhibition in Lawrence, Mass., Schweinfurth Memorial Art Gallery’s “Made in New York” exhibition in Auburn, N.Y., the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, N.Y., and a group show at Fisher Weisman in San Francisco. 

             In 2007, Novado Cappuccilli received a grant to install her first earthwork, “Suture” at Lipe Art Park in Syracuse, NY. Additionally, her mixed media painting “Emergence/Submergence” was selected for publication in the premier issue of “Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York”