Meet Celebrity Guide Angelo Marinosci Jr.

This Gallery Night, October 19, 2017, we will be having a bilingual Italian culture tour with “Celebrity Guide” Angelo Marinosci Jr.  Artist/Photographer and Educator for the past four decades Angelo has traveled worldwide, taught at several area colleges and maintained an aggressive exhibition and lecture schedule during his career.

 

Angelo Marinosci began painting early in his life ran with a number of the “old Bohemians” of Providence, Tonnoff, Conti, DiToro, eager for commissioned works in art.  He studied at several colleges, including N.Y.U.‘s study abroad program, I.C.P., of  New York City, R.I.S.D. and R.I.C.  His attraction to photography in the late 1960’s lead him onto an additional creative/professional avenue, and soon working for several local publications and being asked to teach photography on a college level.  He has earned a number of internships, sponsorships, grants and honorarium, including a Hayes-fulbright-‘78.; “Venezia-La Fotogafia-’79.; 12 years of cooperation from Agfa Film Co.-‘83-’95;  Honda Corp. of Tokyo ’84. and INGUAT –’87, of the Government of Guatemala.

He holds several degrees in Studio Art and Art Education, Including an M.A.T. and with additional studies towards a PhD and beyond.  has taught from pre-school to advanced college students.   In addition to his painting, photography and teaching, he also enjoys a serious involvement in acoustic music and songwriting.  He continues to perform for the public at prime listening venues and festivals and also organizes“ open jam” freestyle music sessions.  Painting remains his “first love”.

Painting since boyhood,  “… It is my first, and preferred language.  I have painted in a number of styles…  Let the instrument suit the song and vice versa…  A painter should think more like a cat, intuitively and in many directions at once and should take risks and not be afraid to fail.   Paintings should stand on its own merit and should ask more questions than it answers… leaving you with a touch of mystery.”

My artwork represents years of studio work and much of it was intended to bend the spectrum, tease the spirit and hopefully, engage and entertain the viewer.   As with many of my travels, some of it was conceived in Venice, Italy from both recent times and many years ago.  All of the Painting, except for the self-portrait, has its roots in the Italian Metaphysical School, of Surrealism, the last existing vestige of artistic and spiritual transcendentalism. They each represent a different series, exhibition or period.

My photography has mostly been about the world out there, my painting has mostly expressed my inner world, and my music has been the sum total of my philosophical glue, my religion, that holds it all together. It’s not about mixture of colors, or chord progressions or choice of lenses (that’s just nuts and bolts) …its about the inherent aesthetic that I hope to have “woven” throughout my life and have tried to present it in some meaningful and honest way.

A good piece of art should ask more questions that it answers. I use some of my experiences or even borrowed experiences, or lucid dreams, to feed my process. In the end I am only one small voice that I hope will be heard.  When I sing and play, I like to have small receptive audiences so that I can sing from the heart and play to my best ability… not to impress, but to share and hopefully be shared.

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