Naked Beekeeper Sculpture

Don Porcella Location: New York, New York, United States Please see www.donporcella.blogspot.com as I am an Artist living in New York City and I have an art studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn. My artwork has been exhibited at galleries in New York City, East Hampton, NY, Paris, France, Portland, Oregon, Washington D.C. and San Francisco, California. I have been featured in several publications in the last year including The Daily Constitutional from Richmond, Virginia, Standard Magazine from Paris, France and Hunt and Gather from Perth, Australia. In 2005, my first New York City Solo Show was favorably reviewed in the New York Times. Don PorcellaArt StatementNew York Times, art critic Ken Johnson describes Don Porcellas paintings as, images like Sasquatch lounging in a pink recliner by a wilderness lake and a mobile home trailer on fire are embodied in a thick, sensuously waxy medium. Drawing from his own imagery of the suburban, and his interest in folk art, cartoons, and science fiction, Porcellas work allows the subjective and strange to penetrate humorous representations of a wildly imaginative reality. Porcellas unique approach of dripping the ancient medium of encaustic reinforces the significance of lifes blunders presenting a mysterious world that is shamelessly awkward and unabashedly comical. Porcella also creates whimsical and subversive sculptures. Some of these sculptures are made from pipe cleaners. The craft materials are taken to a high art form as the content and structure play with our concept of consumerism, reality and our own weird mortality.
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