'Sculptor's Eye' - Nick Santoro, March 6th
You are cordially Invited to an
Artist Reception: Sunday, MARCH 6, 4 to 6 PM
"SCULPTOR'S EYE"
Photographs of marble and stone objects
by stone sculptor NICK SANTORO
The York Square Cinema Gallery
61 Broadway
New Haven, CT
Nick Santoro is best known for 25 years of carving stone sculptures and
teaching
students how to use hand tools to shape marble and limestone. In this
show,
"Sculptor's Eye," he has turned his talent to photography, using mostly
stone
for his subjects.
"During a hot late summer day in September I was relaxing after a swim
at the
quarry in West Rutland, Vermont, warming myself on a huge marble block
when
I was lucky enough to have my camera with me to photograph the
reflections of
the water undulating off the quarry walls. Subsequently, I've been
using my
Pentax K-1000 to depict a sculptor's view of the world.
"I grew up in the 50's and early 60's in Brooklyn, New York," says
Santoro,
"where I'd use a pen knife to carve my initials into the hot summer
asphalt streets.
After my city upbringing I went out to the Midwest and earned a
Literature degree
from the University of Iowa. In the mid-70's I started carving again,
stone this time,
at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C., where I fell in love
with shaping
Indiana limestone using hammers and chisels and assorted files and
rasps and
sanding stones.
"I hope the elemental beauty of stone and by extension some of the
ineffable joy
I've experienced working it daily reaches out from these 2D images.
I've derived great
satisfaction over the years looking at, touching, and sculpting all
kinds of natural,
cut and uniquely shaped stones. This calling has been a direct,
tactile, demanding,
mysterious, and noble pursuit."
In June 2003, Santoro participated in "The Divided World" exhibition at
the York Square
Gallery, showing "Bro: Elegy To The 2nd Amendment," a bullet-pocked
head-stone
and two sculptural wall assemblages made of assorted organic and
man-made materials.
In November 2003, he showed his stone sculptures, paintings and
assemblages at
the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery at the UCONN, Avery Point campus where
his
sculptures can still be seen.
Additional framed and unframed Prints are available in any size.
Contact curator.
Exhibition: February 17 to March 22, 2005
The York Square Cinema Gallery
61 Broadway
New Haven, CT
Gallery Hours:
Saturday, Sunday, & Wednesday: 1 to 10 PM
Daily: 5 to 10 PM (Admission free to view exhibit.)
Gallery curator: Johnes Ruta
(203) 387-4933
http://azothgallery.com/yorksqgallery.html
"Stone Laden" photograph of VT marble quarry slab.
9:35:43 PM 
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