"Memory Wall" Artist Statement, Fall 2022 A Memory Wall seems to have two very different meanings. One refers to a computer technology term that describes the disparity between the memory chip and the bandwidth. I don’t have the bandwidth for that, nor enough memory in the chip. The other explanation is one that applies to my use in describing a series of paintings. While spending time in Cape Hatteras about ten years ago, I was invited into a neighbor‘s home and the main wall in the living room was covered with framed photographs, objects, bric-a-brac, small paintings and all manner of kitschy memorabilia. When I asked about it, my host told me it was their Memory Wall. Every picture or object had to do with their travels and family, friends, pets, holidays, etc. A travelogue of their lives all displayed on the main wall of the house. Years later, I remembered this wall and thought that it might be interesting to create my own Memory Wall based on my thoughts about painting, nature, wall construction, (stone walls, brick walls, weathered walls, ancient walls), etc. This is a very open-ended painting exercise and one that I could work on for a long time. The first “Memory Wall” painting acts as a visual encyclopedia of shapes, compositions, color juxtapositions, etc. I have always been interested in wall surfaces and how they are constructed. I studied the artisan craft of Venetian Plaster in Italy and have spent years practicing this craft in people’s homes. I take containers of mixed, pigmented plaster into my studio and use it in my work. I have developed a type of fresco painting using Stucco Veneziano. These abstract compositions are done in multiple layers of overlapping colors made of pigmented plaster and marble dust and rubbed with refined beeswax. I then burnish the surface to bring out the stone like quality and seal in the color. My imagery is never far from the real world whether it be man-made or from nature. My BIG LITTLE series has been going on for many years now. Each panel is 12x12 inches and done in pigmented plaster and wax on wooden panels. The small scale allows for experimentation and intuitive playfulness. They become vignettes of my visual memory.All the work in my current show with Carrie Haddad Gallery has been done within this past year. I am very pleased to share it with you.Vincent Pomilio More from the artist: I primarily work in all painting media, on canvas, paper, or wooden panel. For the past ten years my work has been largely abstract, always using the Natural World as my guide. The image evolves through a series of layers, each one rubbed, sanded, or burnished with tools. The image then reveals itself and I intuitively know when to bring it to completion. Some of my work has a strong landscape feeling as in "Between The River and The Sky". I always encourage the viewer to find recognizable shapes and images in my work. "If you see it, it is there". Most of these paintings have an all-over feeling as if these self-organizing systems continue off the picture plane. One shape flows from another, and then another, until there is a pulsating energy of interacting elements. Worlds of refined, chaotic movement are animated by color. DESCRIPTION OF WORKS I usually start with an acrylic base and drawing tools, pencil, wax crayon, ink etc. I also use a Kolcaustico plaster with marble dust and pigments in layers. As it is drying I carve into it and paint into with pigment or water-based paint and start to build up the surface. I do as much carving as painting. Nothing is collaged onto the painting unless I specify collage as part of the material. A lot of the shapes are created with tape and the material is troweled onto the surface. After it is all said and done I rub a refined beeswax into it and burnish the surface to bring up all the detail and seal the surface. It acts as a glaze as well and makes it resistant to moisture. All materials are permanent. ResumeSOLO EXHIBITIONS2024 New Works, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY2018 Horizon Line, Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center, Kingston, NY2015 Paintings, Lemonade Stand Gallery, Key West, FL2011 Paintings, Drawings, Prints – Trans-Luxe Gallery, New York, NY2008 “Between the River and Sky” Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY2004 Paintings - Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY2003 Paintings - Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY2000 Paintings - Pacifico Fine Art, New York, NY1998 Paintings - Mad River Post, New York, NY1996 Paintings - Lift Arts Center & Exhibition Space, New York, NY1994 Paintings - Smith-Barney Executive Gallery, New York, NY1993 "Views of Strada" - Works on Paper - Castel San Nicolo, Arrezzo, Italy SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2022 BIG Little Color, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2018 Bejeweled – Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2017 Summer Show, Hal Bromm Gallery, NY, NY2017 Patterns, Wired Gallery, Mohonk, NY2016 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Hal Bromm Gallery, NY, NY2015 Color Theory – Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2014 “Insecure”, Hal Bromm Gallery, NY, NY2014 New York All Borough Show, Denise Bilbro Gallery, NY, NY2013 Group Exhibition – Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2013 “Silent Partners” - imogen holloway gallery, Saugerties, NY2012 “A Conversation: Thomas Huber and Vincent Pomilio” – BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY2012 “Abstract Realities” – Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY2012 Group Exhibition – Edward Hopper House and Museum, Nyack, NY2012 “Anywhere but Here”, curated by Dan Teran for Artsicle, Gallery Bar, NYC2012 “zoom in” - imogen holloway gallery, Saugerties, NY2012 “Composed Chaos”, Soreille Gallery, Albany, NY.2012 “Abstract Realities” - curated by Hal Bromm, The Studio of Key West, Key West, Fl.2011 “Serious Play” – Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2011 Hudson Valley Contemporary Works on Paper – Boscobel, Garrison, NY2011 20th Anniversary Exhibition - Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2010 Group Exhibition – Solera, NY, NY2010 Group Exhibition – Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY2009 Group Exhibition – “Frolic” Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2007 Group Exhibition - New Hudson 3 Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY2006 Group Exhibition – Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY2006 If They Could See Us Now – South Bay Gallery, Hudson, NY2006 Group Exhibition - Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY2005 Group Exhibition - North Pointe Cultural Center/Kinderhook, NY2005 Group Exhibition – ELLART Exchange Gallery/Simi Valley, Ca.2005 “Pomilio & Pomilio” North Pointe Cultural Center/Kinderhook, NY2005 “Abstraction NOW!” Shelnutt Gallery. RPI/Troy, NY2004 Group Exhibition – ADD Gallery, Hudson, NY2004 Paintings - Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY2003 Group Exhibition – Richard Sena Gallery, Hudson, NY2002 Works on Paper - Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2002 Group Exhibition - Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY2005 Group Exhibition - Waxlander Gallery, Santa Fe, NM2001 Works on Paper - Pacifico Fine Art, New York, NY2001 Red Hot and Cool - Pacifico Fine Art, New York, NY2000 50th Anniversary Exhibition - Berkshire Art Association, Stockbridge. MA.2000 "Autopoiesis" - Self Organizing Systems in Art - Pacifico Fine Art, NYC1999 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts - National Juried ExhibitionCurated by Lisa Dennison, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NY1998 Group Exhibition - Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY1998 Juried Painting Exhibition - Berkshire Museum - Pittsfield, MA.Curated by Laura Hoptman, Museum of Modem Art, NY1997 Works on Paper - Berkshire Museum - Jerry Saltz, Curator1995 "Spirit of America - Four New York City Artists" - Works on PaperGallery Camue, Bad Durkheim, Dresden, Manheim, GermanySELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS1995 Small Works Show - Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY1993 Group Show -Barnard-Biderman Fine Art, New York, NY1991 Group Painting Show - Keith Haring, Stephen Lack, Vincent PomilioGallery Nadeau, Philadelphia, PA1990 Group Show- Still-Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, LA1986 Three Person Show- Soho Center for Visual Arts, New York, NY1985 Group Show- Vox Populi Gallery, New York, NYRECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY2013 In Local Living Color: Vince Pomilio’s Thornbush Grid by Dave King, Rural Intelligence2008 Hudson River: Abstract Revision by Kevin D. Murphy, ART New England (vol. 29, issue 2)2008 The Hudson Valley 100, Insideout (July/August ’08)2006 ARTS Alive BRIK Gallery Presents: In/formed Color2006 The Artful Mind In/formed Color at Brik Gallery2005 Painting by Pomilio Cousins in Kinderhook, NY. The Paper, Hillsdale, NY.2005 Sigthings. Hudson River Art. Hudson, NY2004 Abstraction Now! Shows classic modernism, The Independent, Hudson, NY2003 Marking Space – Making Time, by Jeannette Fitz. The artfulmind2002 A wide, peaceful sky, by Jason Flores-Williams. Pasatiemp, Santa Fe, NM.LECTURES 2005 Northe Point Cultural Center, Kinderhood, NY2005 The New York City Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center2001 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM.1992 The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadephia, Pa.AWARDS 2015 The Studios of Key West, Residency Fellowship2001 Santa Fe Art Institute, Residency Fellowship2000 The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Grant Recipient1991 Milton & Sally Avery Fellow, Fellowship1991 Change, Inc. Financial Assistance (Robert Rauschenburg)1991 MacDowell Colony, Residency Fellowship1988 Vermont Studio Colony, Residency Fellowship1987 Artist Space, New York, Materials Fund AwardEDUCATION 1973 Kutztown State University, Kutztown, PA BFA - Painting1976 New York University, NY Graduate Studies - Painting1976 Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA Graduate Studies – PaintingCOLLECTIONSDeloitte & Touche, Boston Lee Briant, NYC Bethany Beardsley, Red Hook, NYLaw Offices of Hale and Dorr, Boston Stephen Kastenberg, Philadelphia Mr. & Mrs. Irwin Lainoff, Brooklyn, NYBoston Medical Center, Boston, Mass Rick Shaver, NYC Nancy Zuckerman, Hudson NYDr. Norman Posner, Hudson, NY Caroline Yarnell, CT Arlene Zallman, Arezzo, ItalyColin De Land, NYC April Bernard, NYC Charles Baker, Hudson, NYAnn Kennison, Monterrey, CA Dotson Rader, Quogue, NY Bergen Dancenter, Bergenfield, NJMr. & Mrs. Joseph Grotto, Westin, CT Doug Parent, Purchase, NY Michael Bergen, NYCDavid Goodman, NYC Daniel Fones, West Palm Beach, FL Time Warner Cable, NY,NYBruce Murphy, NYC Joesph Coencas and Niall Kelly, NY Michael Grimes, New York, NYArthur McGuire & Alistair McRobbie, NY Lynn Dreese Breslin, NYC Henrietta Mantooth, NYCSteven Jones, Vancouver Mr. & Mrs. Richard Weinstock, NYC Janice Horowitz and Rick Bookstaber, NYCDaniel Lanning, NYC John Hinckley, Burlington, VT Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Hinckely, SwitzerlandSarah Hinckley, Seattle, WA Walter Benson, Syracuse, NY Mr. & Mrs. Christopher McPhadden, NYCGreg Kintzee, Denver, Co. Wendi Kushner, Austin, Tx. Laura M Boyd, Sharewood, Il.Scott James, NYC Analysis Group, Boston Todd Green, NYCJames Levin and G Leath Nunn, Austin Nicholas Tamari, Geneva, Switzerland Jeffrey Mass, NYCMurdoch Design Group, Hamilton Burmuda Kevin Murphy, Maplewood, NJ Lisa and David Bagley, Simi Valley, CA.Tom and Joyce O’Halloran, West Lake Valley, Ca. Joan Greenberg, Hudson, NY Ronald DiMaggio, New York, NY.Thomas and Bernice Leone, Albany, NYJack Melnikov, New York, NY Richard Sena, Hudson NY Barbara and Kenneth CookeMichelle Tornabene, Santa Barbara,CA Mark Gerstman, Albany, NY Dan and Mary Udell, Craryville, NY