Artist Statement

I work primarily in fresco and encaustic mediums, sometimes combining multiple techniques in creating my abstract and often minimal paintings. The focus of my work is to fragment the space in myriad ways with texture and line as the primary tools along with simple elements of pattern, shape and color. I am interested in the interplay between what nature has created, and what man creates in organic environments thus randomness plays as important an element as control. My work is very process oriented. I am fascinated by surface and texture and led by things that appear in the process. I am not afraid to push the boundaries of the mediums and am excited by the potential conflicts that arise.

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Artist Biography

Jorge Caligiuri was born in 1958 in Rosario, Argentina of Italian heritage. He attended the Academy of Bellas Artes and studied architecture at the UBA, University of Buenos Aires. He worked for many years and traveled the world as an interior designer. He moved to the United States in 2004 and began to paint as a solo endeavor. He has exhibited his work in galleries in Philadelphia, New York and Washington, DC and has work in many private collections. He currently lives and has a studio in Philadelphia.

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Education

1992
Architectura University of Buenos Aires UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
BA

1977
National School of Fine Arts UNA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
MFA

Exhibitions

Solo

2019
In Between and Beyond, Embassy of Argentina, Washington, DC

2017
Motion, Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC

2016
Translocation, Embassy of Argentina, Washington, DC

2014
Lands, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2013
The Other Lands, Embassy of Argentina, Washington, DC

2008
Iluminare Restaurant, Philadelphia, PA

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Two-Person

2018
Rhythms, Barsky Gallery, NJ

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Group

2023
New Now VI, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2021
COVIMETRY, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven CT

2021 National Juried Exhibition of the Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick MD.

LINEAR PERSPECTIVE, Davinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia

2017
Barsky Gallery, Hoboken, NJ

2016
Pinta Miami, Art Basel, Miami, FL

White Stone Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

7 by 7, Embassy of Argentina, Washington, DC

Artists United, Philadelphia, PA

2015
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2013
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2011
Gallery 32, New York, NY

2009
Universidad of Villanova, Radnor, PA