Exhibited July 27, 2009 to February 7, 2010
Native New Yorker and former prizefighter Paolo Corvino has experimented with many artistic styles.
His recent sculptures, geometric abstractions like Tempo # 5, have presented brightly–colored, minimal forms. This work is made from painted aluminum.
”I’m proud to be a product of the New York City public school system,” he said. ”I grew up in the Bronx, and I have wonderful memories of those early days. In 1942, as a junior high school student, I did a silkscreen of a minuteman holding a rifle, with the words ‘Buy Bonds and Savings Stamps’ written across the top. That poster, which was used to entice children and their parents to buy bonds and savings stamps to support the war effort, was sent to hundreds of schools throughout New York state.”
