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Resumé ANTHONY VISCO / ARTS ATELIER STUDIO WORKMy major concentration is representational sculpture and drawing. As a representational artist, I use the human body as the most expressive means of demonstrating dynamic spirituality, and poise in both two and three dimensional terms. Issues of content are inherent in my compositions as I use my sense of modeling to clarify and invent form that enhances sacred iconography. I work with both traditional and modern processes of construction, modeling, and mold making, and casting in plaster, terra cotta, and bronze. EDUCATIONPhiladelphia College of Art Skowhegan School of Paining and Sculpture, Accademia delle Belle Arti, Florence, COMMISSIONS"The Stations of the Cross", Old St. Joseph's National Shrine, Phila. PA 1981 "St. Frances Cabrini, Mother of Immigrants", Tondo Relief, Cabrini College, Radnor PA, 1980 "Religious Freedom", large relief, Saint Joseph's National Shrine, 1984 "The Assumption" "The Assumption of the Virgin" "The Baptism of Christ", "The Sermon on the Mount",
and "Christ at Tiberius", "Stations of the Cross", plaster and wood, Saint Joseph's University
Chapel, "Gloria Tibi Domine", sanctuary wall, Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
Berlin NJ, "Saint Maria Goretti, Patroness" and "Our Lady of the Eucharist", 1997 St. Maria Goretti, Hatfield, PA, "Sacred Conversation", and "The Eleven Blessed of Nowogrodech",
"St. Rita of Cascia", "The Christ of Holy Saturday" "St. Norbert Presenting the Risen Christ to his Following",
(in progress), "A Land of Wheat and Vine", Eucharistic Chapel tondo relief,
St. Rita of
Cascia, EXHIBITIONS (Selected)"Vin Santo" Artists House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA April 4 to April 22, 2003 "Disegno ~ Dio Segno" Villanova University, "Una Notte in Toscana", Wayne Art Center, "A Centenary of Sainthood" Villanova University, "Nude Beyond the Studio" Art Alliance
"Academy Artists", Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 1993 "Figurative Philadelphia", Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA. 1993 "In Conference" Fourteenth Annual International Sculpture Exhibit,
Phila. PA "In the Religious Spirit", National Sculpture Society, St. John
the Divine, "Divine Vistas", Noel Butcher Gallery, Phila. PA, 1985 "Via Dolorosa", Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1983 "The Stations of the Cross", Bryn Mawr Presbyterian, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1984 One man show, First Street Gallery, New York, NY 1980 LECTURES"St. Francis of Assisi and the Creative Imagination",
Gary Long Memorial Sculpture Lecture, "The History and Use of Artistic Anatomy" "Da Vinci on Vitruvius: A Stranger in Paradise" "St. Francis of Assisi and His Influence on the Arts", "The Architecture of Tosca", "Studio Works",
"The Fullbright Year", "Studio Works", "Liturgical Commissions", TEACHINGPhiladelphia College of Art (AKA) University of the Arts; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; New York Academy of Fine Art, graduate school; TEACHING TOURS"Lessons of the Florentine Masters", "Light and Landscape in Italy", AWARDSPennsylvania State Council for the Arts, Independent Study Grant, The Elizabeth T.Greenshields Award, private studio study, Fullbright-Hayes Grant, Sculpture, Florence, Italy, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture summer scholarship, BIOGRAPHYANTHONY VISCO is a professional artist who maintains his studio in center city Philadelphia, where he does both commissioned works, gallery exhibitions, and private studio works. Upon graduation from the Philadelphia College of Art he was the recipient of the Fullbright -Hayes Grant to travel and study in Italy, where he attended studios at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence. In 1975, he was awarded the Elizabeth T. Greensheilds Grant for figurative sculpture. He is a member of Classical America and has received the coveted Arthur Ross award twice for sculpture in an architectural setting. His commissions include a large terra cotta relief at Cabrini College
in
Radnor, Pa. His panels depicting the Stations of the Cross can be seen
at St. Joseph's National Shrine in Old Philadelphia as well as hi large
relief sculpture entitled, "Religious Freedom", done for the
250th anniversary of the founding of the same church. At the Bryn Mawr
Presbyterian Church, Mr. Visco has sculpted three bronze reliefs designed
for the reredose in the Catherine Pew Memorial Chapel there. In 1993-4,
Anthony was commissioned to do the sculpture for the sanctuary at Our
Lady of Mount Carmel in Berlin, NJ and in '96, '97 completed two bronze
commissions for Holy Family College Chapel. In 1999 and 2000, he was commissioned
to make two life size bronze statues for Saint Rita National Shrine in
Philadelphia. In the spring of 2002, he installed a bronze statue of St.
Norbert for the Norbertine Community at Daylesford Abbey Visco is a professional member of the National Sculpture Society as well as Classical America where he lectures. Along with his private studio work, Mr. Visco offers his expertise as a guest critic to the New York Academy of Art and a professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he chaired the Sculpture Department from 1986 to 1992. |
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