Chris Caccamise received his BA in
fine arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University,
a BA in english literature from Rutgers University, and an MFA from the School
of the Visual Arts. Caccamise
has exhibited at the Sculpture Center in Queens, Sixtyseven Gallery,
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Axel Raben Gallery, and the Wrong Gallery,
all in New York; the 1R Gallery in Chicago, Peres Projects in Los Angeles,
the Weatherspoon Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, and at Art House
in Austin Texas, curated by Jerry Saltz. Caccamise’s work
has been reviewed in Time Out New York, The New York Times, Flash
Art, Flavorpill, and The Brooklyn Rail.
Inspired by both nature and modern technology, Caccamise creates colorful
cartoon-like paper constructions of mountains, rainbows, clouds, waterfalls,
buildings, planes, trailer-trucks and the like to create all-encompassing
imaginary realities that evoke a world of memory, childhood toys, and
inside jokes.
www.chriscaccamise.com
Where are you from: USA
Where do you live/work: New York, NY
Who or what influences and inspires you?
The Olsen twins are my current twin Muses. Every aspect of their very
existence has been packaged for consumption by the American public and the
world. This is very similar to the goal of most successful artists.
What is your solution to artist’s or writer’s block?
I never have “artists block” but I do have the problem that
all of my ideas are sometimes bad. The only solution to this is to
make the terrible things that I am thinking about and then to be haunted
by them forever.
What is your favorite website and why?
My favorite website is thesuperficial.com because I love cruel, vitriol
filled celebrity gossip.
What is your favorite spot in Lower Manhattan? Any discoveries?
My favorite spot in lower Manhattan is the Irish Potato famine Memorial
because it is a miniature island jutting up into the air with a real stone
cottage sitting right in the middle of it and I thing it is a wonderful piece
of strange public art.
