Nicholas Pilato Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1986 -

NICHOLAS PILATO - 1986 Born in the United States - Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

For his solo exhibition, Pilato debuts a series of paintings consisting of concrete and oil paint on canvas. Each work combines gritty textures and a rich color palette evoking nature and organic substances. The paintings are material compositions, disrupted through varying phases of deterioration, abrasion, and formal displacement. The canvases are scraped and broken down into abstract gestures and diffuse patterning. This excavation creates surfaces of raw texture and color, invoking aspects of sedimentation, erosion and industrial decay.

Alongside the concrete and oil paintings, Pilato introduces compositions of hand-glazed commercial tiles. Undermining the minimalist relationship to the grid, the glossy surface of the ceramic paintings are more reminiscent of Roman glass vessels which reveal their luminosity through centuries of decomposition. In a further exploration of abstraction, these sensuous surfaces contrast the pitted matte painting on canvas.

Pilato’s work blurs the distinction between material incident and artist intervention. In the vein of Pierre Bonnard’s relationships between color and memory, the lyrical abstraction refrains from any direct representation—seeking to engage the viewer’s perception through displacement and familiarity. The idiosyncrasy of the work suspends any immediate tangibility, and instead invites multiple meanings to be drawn upon the textures, color, light, and materials that are pushed together with the artist’s distinct tempo and vitality.

Nicholas Pilato (b. 1986) lives and works in New York and received his MFA from Rutgers University, New Jersey in 2013. Recent exhibitions include group shows at IDEA Miami, Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Michael Jon Gallery, Detroit and Museo Britanico Americano in Mexico City. Upcoming exhibition include a group show with Bryce Wolkowitz, New York and a solo presentation with Anat Ebgi at Miart, Milan in April.



Education
2013 MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
2010 Summer Studio Program, Virginia Commonwealth University
2009 BFA, University of Florida

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Nicholas Pilato, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibtions
2015 New Vibrations, Brand New Gallery. Milan, IT
Dérive(s), curated by Romain Dauriac, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Summer and sUMMER, Michael Jon Gallery, Detroit, MI
Different things from different places, Annarumma Gallery, Naples, IT
144 Rooftop Show, Brooklyn, NY
Proxima, curated by Elisa and Seth Carmichael, Museo Britanico Americano, Mexico City, MX
2013 Rutgers in NY, White Box, New York, NY
Dim Sum MFA Thesis, Mason Gross Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
2010 Agent Form, Virginia Commomwealth University, Richmond, VA
InSpace, Daacha Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Infinity Realized, Civic Media Center, Gainesville, FL
2008 Questionable, Kickstand Gallery, Gainesville, FL
International Exhibition, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos, GR

Awards
2013 Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Teaching Fellowship
2009 University Scholars Research Award, University of Florida