- Artist: john criscitello
- Bio:
John Criscitello b.1967 Ithaca New York is a multi media video artist. He has exhibited his work internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions. John began working with video in 1992. He specializes in video installation and exterior video projection and founded the quarterly screening of video and short film call Video/Art/Ithaca. John is also a 2010 New York Foundation of the Arts MARK Video Artist.
Education
Munson Williams Proctor School of Art 1990-92 Utica New York
John H. Loy Honors Award in Painting
Areas of Specialization
Video Art., Video Installation , Digital Media
Recent Exhibitions 2010-11
Exquisit Corpse Video Project Brazil
In The Morning /Collaborative Video Project Syracuse New York
MT_VU Mobile Terrorist Video Unit/Exterior Projection Masonic Temple Ithaca NY
Max Bonk Envoy Gallery NYC
Blinking Lights Gallery Brooklyn NYC
Video/Art/Ithaca Winter 09 Ithaca New York
Human Emotion Project Torino Italy
State OF the Art Gallery Invitational Ithaca New York
The Working Relationship Cornell University Ithaca New York
CSMA Blue Blood Exterior Projection Ithaca New York
Requiem For Analog Television Noise Cornell University
Atrium Gallery Video Installation, University of Western Michigan Frostic School of Art Kalamazoo MI
Maipulated Image The Complex Santa Fe New Mexico
Scope at Basel Art Fair Basel Switzerland
Visual Container Box Gallery Milano Italy
Push/Pull @Open Space Seattle Washington
- All Videos
Guston's Lullaby is a video art homage to the American painter Philip Guston. In this latest series of work, I begin with a "real world" source image and slowly through digital manipulation I move the image into the realm of pure abstraction.
The source image I used for Guston's Lullaby is a child's mobile. The colorful spinning object when viewed through filters becomes a hypnotic, meditative collage of shapes and textures not unlike the mid period paintings of Guston.
This " moving painting " also includes the audio of the child mobile slowed down along with layers of sound including wind chimes and bells.
I am working toward creating ambient video projections that reference Art History and do not demand constant attention from the viewer, but that can also be enjoyed with only a slight degree of peripheral vision.
