Albert Dicruttalo

Born in upstate New York in 1967, I grew up in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in the post-industrial town of Gloversville. After studying art at Ithaca College, I continued making sculpture and traveled for extended periods in Alaska and South America. In 1994 I began working in the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University to investigate and utilize electronic technologies in the creation of sculpture. Two years later I established a studio and foundry in Oakland, California where I currently live.

In 2008 and 2009 I participated in “e-Form”, an extensive survey of Digital Sculpture featuring over thirty international artists. “e-Form” survey is an evolution of the First International Rapid Prototype Sculpture Exhibition as well as the biannual international digital sculpture events of InterSculpt during the past sixteen years. The show opened in October 2008 in Beijing at Today Art Museum, travelled to Duolun Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai and continued on to Jinse Gallery in Chonqing in early 2009.

Currently I show at many San Francisco Bay Area galleries including Varnish Fine Art in San Francisco, Winfield Gallery in Carmel, Auberge du Soleil in Rutherford, and Paradise Ridge Winery in Santa Rosa.

Education
Ithaca College, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1989

Professional Experience
Instructor in Sculpture, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California 1998-2000
Chief Assistant to sculptor, Bruce Beasley, 1996-2010
Research Assistant, Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1994 -1996

Public Art
Art in Public Places - Orinda Plaza – Orinda, California (2011)
Art in Public Places - Orinda City Hall - Orinda, California (2011)

Museum Exhibitions
California SLAM - San Luis Obispo Museum of Art - San Luis Obispo, California (2011)
E Form - Duolun Museum of Modern Art – Shanghai, China (2009)
E Form - Today Art Museum – Beijing, China (2008)

Solo Exhibitions
Freedom, Entrapment and Identity - Handwerker Gallery – Ithaca College – Ithaca, New York (2003)
New Work in Steel and Bronze - Perrella Gallery – Johnstown, New York (2003)

Selected Exhibitions
Castigation - Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art - San Francisco, California (2011)
Mettle – Paradise Ridge Winery - Santa Rosa, California (2010)
E Form – Jinse Gallery - Conqing, China (2009)
Intersculpt Biennial - Lorraine, France (2009)
Winfield Gallery - Carmel, California (2006-2010)
Auberge du Soleil - Rutherford, California (2007)
Art Exchange - San Francisco, California (2007)
Solomon Dubnick Gallery - Sacramento, California (2005)
111 Minna Gallery - San Francisco, California (2002-2005)
William Zimmer Gallery - Mendocino, California (2000-2005)
Varnish Fine Art - San Francisco, California (2004)
Handwerker Gallery - Ithaca, New York (2003)
Perrella Gallery - Johnstown, New York (2003)
Mill Valley Sculpture Garden - (2001)
Academy of Art College - San Francisco, California (2000)
Terrain Gallery - San Francisco, California (1999)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco, California (1997-1998)
Hydrangea House - Providence, Rhode Island (1999)

My work addresses themes of freedom, entrapment, and identity. I employ a direct approach, often cutting and welding metal plates into hollow, geometric sections and juxtaposing them with bronze castings. The tension created between organic contours and the planar geometry is recurrent in my sculpture. My current body of work draws on more industrial forms and surfaces while creating objects suggestive of natural shapes. In all of my sculpture, I emphasize formal spatial relationships to convey emotional content. My work summons associations of the strength and vulnerability of the human condition and cultivates a delicate line between escape and confinement.