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THBPATTI CAPALDI '80 M'91, Recursive Loop, Walden
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United States
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TimedApr 4, 2026 - Apr 12, 2026
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100. PATTI CAPALDI '80 M'91
Recursive Loop, Walden, 2025, Edition 3 of 8
Silkscreen print, oak gall pigment, Arnhem paper
22 x 30
$1,200
Courtesy of the artist
Patti Capaldi born in Providence, RI, lives and works in Ithaca and Brooklyn, NY. Working at the intersection of photo-based imagery and print-media, her practice includes multiples, installation, and artists’ books. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally including the Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Nylon Gallery, London, Metaphor Contemporary, Brooklyn, The University of RI, The Photographic Resource Center, Boston, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, the Johnson Art Museum, Ithaca, Michigan State University, Syracuse University and Cazenovia College, among others. Work is instated in the flat-file viewing program at Pierogi Gallery, NYC and Caroll & Sons Gallery, Boston. Capaldi is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation Award (works on paper/multiples/artists books) a Gottlieb Foundation Grant, and a Rauschenberg Change Grant. She has been awarded residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Foundation, the Banff Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, AIR Program, Vienna, Austria, the Jentel Foundation, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Constance Saltonstall Foundation, the Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Germany and SLAK AIR program, the Netherlands. Capaldi received her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Visit: patticapaldi.com, https://flatfiles.pierogi2000.com/artist/patti-capaldi
Artist's Description:
Patti Capaldi is an associate professor of art at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. In January she will have a one-person exhibition at the Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, and in March work will be included at the Mana Foundation, Jersey City, NJ in conjunction with the Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn. Her work is rooted in the history and processes of photo-based imagery and continually draws from the thrust and mutability of the photographic image while exploring a range of analog and digital print processes. Often working from sourced archived images or photos she takes herself, the work explores contexts that destabilize the image and explores visual vagaries that question where meaning resides. Her work often explores systems of meaning that have been impressed upon nature throughout eras of colonialism and globalization. More specifically, common perceptions and representations of nature being “neutral,” “passive” and “decorative” are starting points for much of her projects.
This series of prints and installation are for an upcoming exhibition at the Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, Ny.(January 2026) By collecting specimens (oak galls) from this historically charged site, I engage with both Thoreau’s legacy and its contemporary reality. The daily practice of walking and gathering mirrors Thoreau’s own methodical observation of his environment, yet my focus on parasitic growths and their transformation into artistic medium suggests a darker, more complex
reading of the natural world. Where Thoreau sought transcendental truth in nature’s beauty, these prints reveal beauty in nature’s aberrations and adaptations, while also reflecting on a reframing of the "Walden" narrative and the contemporary views on the current state of the natural world.Exhibition Sponsor: 
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