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Artist Statement:
My art is my means of
identifying with the universe.
Therefore, I use symbols,
forms, and spatial concern as
a means to express my need for
universality. My inspiration
comes from the unity between
the microscopic and the
macrocosmic.
My painting process is also
designed to bridge the gap
between the known and the
unknown. By using materials
that resist one another, I am
able to reveal several layers
of paints, which would
ordinarily get covered up.
Introducing a hybrid of
techniques, symbols and
various mediums, I am hoping
to create Oneness.
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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
The Guild, Antonio Puri: The
Tenth Door, New York, NY
(catalogue)
2007
Galerie des Beaux Arts,
Antonio Puri, Heeze,
Netherlands
Lawrence Gallery at Rosemont
College, Push & Pull,
Rosemont, PA
Atlantic City Art Center, In
Sights, Atlantic City, NJ
Robert Roman Gallery, Clone
This, Scottsdale, AZ
2006
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Artist Reviews:
Bibliography
2008
Vora, Swapna, Antonio Puri and
the Tenth Door, AsianArt.com,
July 18, New York
Genocchio, Benjamin, A
Collection Born of Cultural
Dislocation, The New York
Times, July 13, New York
Pais, Arthur J., Erasing
Borders, blending cultures,
India in New York, March 7,
New York
Ehrhardt, Ursula, Philadelphia
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Collections:
Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin,
Maxwell & Lupin, Philadelphia,
PA
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP,
Princeton, NJ
Post & Schell, Philadelphia,
PA
Ritz Theatre, Oaklyn, NJ
Moriarty & Associates, P.A.,
Tampa, FL
The Noyes Museum, Oceanville,
NJ
Bergen Museum of Art and
Science, Paramus, NJ
NY Hospice Program, New York,
NY
chashama, New York, NY
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Antonio Puri Biography:
| Biographical information for Antonio Puri can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Committed
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Graduate Work |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Acrylic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Expressionism - (1940 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Despite surface differences, the essential commonality between artists is that theirs is the profession of playing with the universe. With tools of color and shape, all artists play with time and space. Regardless of variances in style, success, and philosophy, every artist takes their turn at being God, using the raw materials of light and nature and remaking them in the reflection of their own dream.
Antonio’s first experience with light and nature was growing up at the toes of the Himalayan mountain range, the world’s most impenetrable wilderness. Vast, imposing, and perfect, Antonio’s inspiration was cut like the granite of the range itself and weathered by its timeless music. It is little wonder, given so magnificent a backdrop, that Antonio’s first steps into Art came at the age of 5. A sensualist from the beginning, Antonio experimented with clay, batik, woodcarving and charcoal before painting with oils at age 12.
Antonio spent 17 years beneath the gaze of the Himalayas before wandering into the world that would become his playground. His experience in both English and International boarding schools lends the first hint of universality to his work – giving an international essence to his Art that transcends culture and ethnicity. From the simplest circle with a black background, to the eternal fire which burns within its core, everything Antonio paints is propelled by the most basic human drives – separate from the superimposed edifice of any single society. In this way Antonio captures both the singular distinctive flavor of the individual heart, as well as the beating drum of humanity in whole.
Antonio studied Art across the globe - from Spain to Iowa, India to San Francisco. He drew inspiration from the Spanish masters, French Impressionists, Abstract Expressionists, and the Dadaists, to name a few. But none of these would match the simple awe he saw in the world itself.
Curiously, at the same time Antonio’s passion for Art was reaching its full harmonic, he was simultaneously leading a double-life, studying law at the University of Iowa. At 29 Antonio became part of the Illinois State Bar as a corporate attorney and gave it up within five years to pursue art full time. It is perhaps his experience as a lawyer, where words are twisted and thrown like weapons, that makes Antonio hesitant in speaking of his work. Ask him the meaning of a particular piece, and his face fills with a vague pain. “I’m not a writer. If I were I would talk about it. But it’s not that I don’t want to. I can’t. I can only say it in the colors. That’s where the meaning is. Colors are universal.”
Perhaps it is this. Or perhaps it is that the emotional power of Antonio’s paintings cannot be captured in words. In dramatic support of this contention are Antonio’s recent works. The ambiguous eternal beauty of his work seems to reveal the uncertain nature of love and hate, good and bad, beauty and ugliness, a powerful illustration of the immovable unity between the spinning opposites that cannot be experienced in the divisions of language. Explained, maybe, but not experienced. But beyond the meanings and themes, the ultimate point of his work seems to be the sweeping happiness of his color… a child, wandering in the park, playing with time and space.
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