UMBERTO SQUARCIA Jr.

SELECTED ARTWORKS

November 24th, 2017

UNTITLED N.2, New York 2017, reclaimed door & paint on board, 24 x 24 in.

Immigration #5, New York, Nov. 2017, Oil on paper, 22″W x 30″H

Untitled N.3, New York 2017, reclaimed cut board, paint, 16 x 38 in.

GW2 (Global Warming #2), Urban sculpture, Parma, Italy 2017, Reclaimed cast-iron radiators on painted steel plate

Target N.6, New York 2017, cut tree, paint, 66″ x 56″ x 20″H

The Armor Head-piece (Mask), New York June 2017, Reclaimed vehicle metal plate, wood, joist, bricks, concrete, brass, 30 H x 12 W x 8 D in.

Endangered Species #1, 2012, Drift Wood, gypsum board, pencil, steel, glass, 48 x 15 x 36 in.

Endangered Species #2, 2014, Drift Wood, glass, steel, 34 x 14 x 24 in.

Endangered Species #4, 2014, Drift wood, steel, 37 x 8 x 25 in.

Endangered Species #7, 2014, Reclaimed wood, steel, glass, 36 x 14 x 24 in.

Endangered Species N.20, 2016, Drift Wood, steel, 48 x 12 x 84 in. (120 X 30 X 210 cm)

Endangered Species N.21, Driftwood, wire, steel, paint, 36 H x 28 W x 12 D in.

Endangered Species N.23, Driftwood, wood, steel, paint, 30 H x 40 W x 12 D in.

Endangered Species N.26, Shark, Reclaimed wood, reclaimed steel, paint, 24 H x 36 W x 12 D in.

Endangered Species N.27, Wild Boar, Driftwood, wood, steel, paint, 26 H x 24 W x 16 D in.

Endangered Species N.28, Drift wood, reclaimed wood joist, blue-stone, rope, steel, paint,90 H x 36 W x 12 D in.

Nothing New N.1, 2014, Wood and paint, 66 x 24 in.

Shortcuts N.1, 2015, Wood and paint, 21 x 13 in.

Shortcuts N.5, 2015, Wood, 11 x 11 in. (28 x 28 cm)

Shortcuts N.11C - CROSSROADS N.1, 2016, reclaimed wood and paint, 25x17 in.

CROSSROADS N.2, New York 2016, Reclaimed wood, paint, 58 x 36 in.

CROSSROADS N.11, New York 2016, Reclaimed wood, paint, 26 x 20 in.

Madonna & Child, 2013, Wood, stone, steel, 16 x 24 x 16 in.

Madonna & Child, drawing, ink on paper, 2016, 3 x 5 in.

Madonna & Child N.1 2017, Red chalk on paper, 30 x 35 cm

The Cyrene Cross (La Croce di Cirene) N.2, Parma 2017, Wood, steel, paint, 16′x7′x2′

Staring at the Sun, Mamiano (Parma), 1998, painted steel, 120 x 48 x 96 in.

Untitled, 2014, Drift wood, reclaimed wood, steel, glass, 12 x 9 x 18 in.

Target N.3, Parma 2016, bullets, wood, canvas, plywood & paint, 48 x 36 cm

Candles (dynamite) N.1, 2016, wood, candles, tape, steel, plywood & paint, 24x24 in. (61x61 cm)

Untitled, New York 2012, reclaimed cut lumber, 120 x 90 x 120 cm

Luca & I, 2003, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 80 in.

Mother & Child N.1, 2013, Ink, oil pastels, color pencils, paint on photograph, 8 x 10 in.

Umberto Squarcia Jr. lives and works in New York City. After classical studies in Parma, Italy, he graduated from the University

of Architecture of Rome, Italy. During his University years he started his artistic production which evolved alongside his

architectural designer profession. In 1998 he moved to New York City: he worked at M/G New York Architects, in 2005 he

created his own design company, USD Inc. and the Columbi Experience, an international internship program in New York.

The architecture and construction fields have been and still are primary inspiration and reference for the artist's creative

process. His artworks have been exhibited in New York, Parma, Munich, San Francisco. Engaging history and modernism,

confronting Italy’s cultural landscape with the Architecture’s environment of New York City, his pieces are often a

reinterpretation and re-visitation of art movements from classical to contemporary. His projects transform the remnants of a

dysfunctional and wasteful culture, revealing its inherent problems as well as reclaiming the latent aesthetic potential within

industrial, natural, ecological, construction ruins and fragments. A reflection on society’s endangered virtues, his works,

ironic and sarcastic, are always reaching and attempting to find, reveal and express the depths of mankind’s soul, life and

death, time and space, joy and suffering, man and nature, and society's contradictions, disparities and injustices. Found

objects, fragments, materials, textures and patterns, along with colors, light and shadow are crafted into compositions

pervaded with symbolic mysticism and spirituality. His sculptures often portray doomed and decayed zoomorphic figures

that still appear in a final desperate and tragic struggle to cling to life. His search and his efforts seem to lead to the concept

of “nature as imitation of art” coexisting with “art as imitation of nature”.

Umberto Squarcia Jr. is represented by:

Tanya Wells Fine Arts, New York tel.+1 646 469 1446 tanyawells00@gmail.com

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