Joseph Castronova is an artist and educator. He is faculty at The Institute for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, NJ. Former Director of duCret School of Art in Plainfield NJ. Joseph has shown extensively in group shows in our area including: Transformations Gallery, Barron Arts Center, Westerhoff Gallery, Earth Studios, M Galleries, Above Art and Yendor Productions.
Solo shows include: M Galleries Fellowship, Rotunda Gallery, M Galleries, M Galleries PNA, Studio Montclair, and Catherine Street Gallery, NY. Commissions include RoboKiller, TelTech, Metuchen Downtown Alliance. He is represented in collections of the School of Visual Arts, Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, JP Morgan Chase and others.
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Joseph Castronova
For the project, I was excited to do a piece that references the gritty utility of the Railroad that is now the Greenway, while celebrating the life we encounter on this wildlife corridor. The piece started with a walk on the Greenway, noting the birds, trees and animals, we saw. The creatures living along the Greenway can be surprising. I chose Chimney Swifts and a Snapping Turtle. I wanted the sculpture to be a sort of puzzle with fill in the blanks. If you look in the right places, those creatures will fit in the cutouts.
