Don Porcaro
Artist Statement:
My work over time has consistently explored the nature of human interaction with the physical world through references to architecture and man-made objects. Tools, utensils, buildings and machines eventually become artifacts, archaeological sites and cultural signifiers. I work in series that bring together many of these interests, with an emphasis on totemic iconography and the human form through the building up and layering of stones. This layering alludes to the accumulation of geological time as well as cultural history. My sculptures emphasize both the columnar and figurative aspects to create an amalgam that is both architectural and human, with a nod to Plato’s Symposium and Brancusi’s The Kiss. We roam the earth in search of our perfect other halves and once they are found, we become whole again.
Artist Biography:
Don Porcaro received MFA from Columbia University. He is Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Parsons and is a member of The National Academy of Design and American Abstract Artists. He lives and works in New York and is represented by Westwood Gallery, NYC.Porcaro has exhibited nationally and internationally and has had large-scale outdoor sculpture exhibitions at The Current, Stowe VT; Bella Abzug Park,NY; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Forma Viva Sculpture Park, Portoroz, Slovenia, and Bad RagArtz Sculpture Triennial, Switzerland, among others.His public art commissions include the New Jersey Transit Authority, Jersey Avenue Light Rail, Jersey City, NJ; and the Forma Viva International Sculpture Park in Portoroz, Slovenia. Porcaro’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, Artnews, Art and Antiques, BOMB and TwoCoatsofPaint, among others. In 2007 he was the subject of a featured profile in Sculpture Magazine.
AAA:
Member Since: 2018
Committees: Exhibitions
