Tony Calzetta |SOPHISTICATED SCRIBBLES AND STORIES, GRIM AND GRIN

May 5 – 26, 2018
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Tony Calzetta: SOPHISTICATED SCRIBBLES AND STORIES, GRIM AND GRIN

"My work is about drawing. The drawing is about images that are composed of shapes and forms constantly evolving from a highly personal visual vocabulary which started with subconscious doodling and automatic drawing and later from more conscience visual influences. My work can be viewed as “abstract funnies” or “surreal cartoons” which fit somewhere between high art and popular culture. Visually ambiguous to perspective and composition as a result of total disinterest to formal rules. My interest is with image as image and I believe in letting the viewer interpret and create his or her own narrative." Tony Calzetta 2018

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Tony in his Studio, 2018

Grim & Grin Story #960

Jack was terribly disappointed
in the result of the
Magic Art Beans
he received from the
Famous Art Guys Art School

Works in the Exhibition

Grim & Grin Story #962

Little Bo Peep
Kept losing her sheep
Ever since Mr. D. Hirst
Moved in next door

1. Oil pastel and graphite on paper, 31” x 32”, 2017

$3200

Grim & Grin Story #970

Rub-a-dub-dub
Three Chatty Charlie Curators
in a tub
Lost at sea

2. Oil pastel and graphite on paper, 29” x 33”, 2018

$3200

Grim & Grin Story #960

Jack was terribly disappointed
in the result of the
Magic Art Beans
he received from the
Famous Art Guys Art School

3. Oil pastel and graphite on paper, 27” x 35”, 2017

$3200

Grim & Grin Story #963

Little Boy Blue, Red and Yellow
What an Arty Fellow

4. Oil pastel and graphite on paper, 27” x 33.5”, 2017

$3200

Grim & Grin Story #959

Word spread quickly
when one of the locals
found out about
Goldilocks and the
Three Tart Tongued Tommies

5. Oil pastel and graphite on paper, 26” x 37”, 2017

$3200

Grim & Grin Story #953

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
And all the King’s Men said,
“Well that’s a lot of egg tempera”

6. Oil pastel and graphite on paper, 40” x 42.5”, 2017

$4800

Grim & Grin Story #971

Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner
Reading his art mag
And thought,
“What a drag”

7. Oil pastel and graphite on paper, 28” x 29”, 2018

$3200

Grim & Grin Story #952

Mrs. Sprat found the larder
a bit sparse since
Jack’s recent friendship
with Joseph B.

8. Oil pastel and graphite on paper, 39” x 48”, 2017

$4800

Grim & Grin Story #969

Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack jump over the Curator’s stick

9. Oil pastel and graphite on paper, 28” x 34”, 2017

$3200

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