About the Book
Anthony Graviano lived on the corner of Howard and Crosby Streets, roughly twelve blocks from the World Trade Center. What happened there, what was there, and what remains we can all see in the quiet of our minds. That is not enough. The memory we have of that day is not enough. We need each others' memories. We need to tell our stories of those days. We need to hear them outloud and in front of us. We need to see them, too. We need to see through others' eyes the scenes of and among the months following September 11, 2001. One recurring image in Anthony's paintings is of gears among the ruins, tossed carelessly there the way a child abandons a toy. Why would a building, now crushed, contain such gears? The elevator, maybe? Some secret machine of commerce and finance? Or the airplane, one of them? Yes, it must be a gear from the engine of one of the airplanes. He lived among the scenes and the smoke we all saw on television. It was impossible. It seems impossible even now, twenty years later. Still a nightmare.
About the Author: Anthony Graviano
ph: 917.670.0065
email: anthony@anthonygraviano.com Born:
Yonkers, New York 1968
Education:
SUNY College at Purchase, Purchase N.Y., B.F.A. 1990
New York Studio School, 1989 Selected Exhibitions
Virgil Catherine Gallery, The Philoche Collection, Hindsdale, Il, 2021
Site Projects, Crashing Chelsea, New York, N. Y., 2008
Emergency Arts, 551 w 21 st, New York, N. Y., May 2006
Ground Zero; Artfirm Project Gallery New York, N.Y., May 2002
Playground of the Fearless, (in cooperation with Dietch Projects New York), Entropy, New York, NY, 2001
Kama Sutra, Embraces, New York, N.Y., 2001
Ne'er Do Wells, DNA Studios, New York, N.Y., 2000
The Grant Gallery, New York, N.Y., 2000
Ragnorack, New York, N.Y., 1999
Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, Absolut Secret, London, England, 1999
Artists Space, Night Of a Thousand Drawings, New York, N.Y.,1998
TMX Fine Arts, The Viewing Room, New York, N.Y.,1998
Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, Absolut Secret, London, England, 1997
The Cursio Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1996 Bibliography
Schmerler, Sarah, The Art of The Dealer, Time Out, 1999
ARD, German News, Live Today, Live interview One Year Later, 2002
Chris Chambers, Summer Picks, New York Arts Magazine, 2002
Merenzon, Eli, Artists of New York, Anthony Graviano, New Russian Word, 2001 Private Collections
New York, Rome, Italy, London, England, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan and China.
