Julius Vitali

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Vitali
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Julius

Executive Director of Open Space Gallery in Allentown, Julius Vitali has also worked with Hempstead Harbor Gallery in Glen Cove and August House in Easton. A printmaker and performing and visual artist, Vitali has received awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation and a National Endowment for the Arts Commission in association with Painted Bride Art Center. His work has been exhibited at Muse Gallery, Philadelphia; Sea Cliff Gallery; Franklin Institute, Philadelphia; and featured widely in international arts publications. He co-curated the traveling photography exhibition Pioneers of Digital Photography. Julius is an interdisciplinary artist working with oil paint, photography, video, computer imaging, and experimental music. His innovative artwork has been the subject of articles and features in more than 300 newspapers and magazines worldwide The New York Times has said of his work, "with his modern technology and bold innovation, Mr. Vitali stands apart as a kind of one-man frontier for the avant-garde. It has been easy to regard him as someone who is pushing the very limits of art in a very positive way." While working with techniques that are often considered "experimental, Vitali has consistently received coverage in the mainstream media. His "Puddle Art," which uses the reflective qualities of water as a liquid canvas, has been featured on "The David Letterman Show," network television news, and in national and international magazines as articles and illustrations. Vitali's "Visual Surgery," a montage technique using found materials made into paper sculpture and then photographed; his "Photographic Windows," a method using cut and contact-printed photographic negatives to create a progressive narrative; and his work in other art forms have been featured in forums such as CNN, The Village Voice, and the prestigious British Journal of Photography. This same work has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Polaroid, Kodak, and the Experimental TV Center. Julius Vitali's intelligent use of the media has bolstered his career, helping him to secure numerous artist and educational residencies, receive corporate support, exhibit in the United States and Europe, and place artwork in public and private collections, including those of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and Polaroid Corporation. AUTHOR: 2003 THE FINE ARTIST'S GUIDE TO MARKETING & SELF-PROMOTION-Revised edition Allworth Press, NYC, NY SELECTED DOMESTIC GRANTS & AWARDS: 2003 Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ Ground Zero 2003-80 Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY Artist-In-Residence 1998 PA Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA Interdisciplinary Arts 1990 Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY Electronic Arts Grant 1982 Inter-Media Art Center, Bayville, NY Video Award INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM & UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTIONS Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, FRANCE Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, FRANCE (slide collection) SELECTED INTERNATIONAL ART COLLECTIONS: Crucial Gallery, London, UK Il Diaframma Galerie, Milan, ITALY Polaroid Corporation, Zurich, SWITZERLAND Zeus Galleria, Milan, Italy SELECTED DOMESTIC MUSEUM & UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTIONS: College Misericordia, Dallas, PA Penn State Berks Campus, Reading, PA SELECTED DOMESTIC ART COLLECTIONS: Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY Inter-Media Art Center, Huntington, NY Locust Valley Library, Locust Valley, NY Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA Howard Chapnick Estate, New York City, NY Ray Johnson Estate, New York City, NY Lillian Gates Estate, San Francisco, CA Mark Gorman Collection, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Caroline Stern Collection, New York City, NY Polly Wood Collection, Allentown, PA INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS MUSEUMS: EXHIBIT TITLE: 2003 Europos Parkas, Lithuania Voices Underground 1989 Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, FR Templin Pour Les Images SOLO EXHIBITIONS MUSEUMS: EXHIBIT TITLE: 2000 Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA Digital Photography DOMESTIC GROUP EXHIBITIONS MUSEUMS: EXHIBIT TITLE: 2002 Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI Ground Zero 1984 P.S. One Museum, L.I.C., NY Abstraction & Image Processing INTERNATIONAL SOLO EXHIBITIONS COMMERICAL GALLERIES: EXHIBIT TITLE: 1987 Crucial Gallery, London, UK Paintings & Digital Photographs 1987 Il Diaframma Galerie, Milan, ITALY Erronique SELECTED INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS GALLERIES: EXHIBIT TITLE: 2003 Europas Parkas, Lithuania Voices Underground 1991 Eurographics 91, Wein University, AUSTRIA European Computer Graphics 1989 Eurographics 89,Congress Center, Hamburg, GERMANY European Computer Graphics 1987-85 Zeus Gallery, Milan, ITALY group shows 1985 Eurographics 85, Palais des Expositions, Nice, FR European Computer Graphics SELECTED DOMESTIC SOLO EXHIBITIONS GALLERIES & ALTERNATIVE SPACES: EXHIBIT TITLE: 2000 Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA Digital Photography 1999 Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA Digital Photography 1997 Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA Perfecting the Art of Errors 1995 Sea Cliff Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY Slipping Progressively Thru an Image SELECTED DOMESTIC GROUP EXHIBITIONS GALLERIES & ALTERNATIVE SPACES: EXHIBIT TITLE: 2003 New York Arts Space, New York City, NY Art Against War 2003 Macy Gallery, New York City, NY Art Against War 2002 Exit Art, NYC, NY Reactions 2002 Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks Campus, Reading, PA Ground Zero 2001 CUANDO, NYC, NY From the Ashes 2001 CUANDO, NYC, NY Witness 2001 Penn State Berks Campus, Reading, PA Dinosaurs, Kittens & Mysteries 2001 Marie Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA Dinosaurs, Kittens & Mysteries 1999 Marie Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA Experimental Photography 1998 Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA Pioneers of Digital Photography 1997 Border's Gallery Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA group show 1996 Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA SoHo to Allentown 1996 Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Digital Peace 1995 Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA The Human Form 1994 Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA Photoasis II 1994 Discovery Gallery, Glen Cove, NY Founders 1988 Discovery Gallery, Glen Cove, NY Excellence in Photography 1988 Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA two person show EnvironCemental People 1988 Discovery Art Gallery, Glen Cove, NY Electronic Art 1987 Artists Organized Protest Show, Pen Argyl, PA F.U.E.L. 1985 Hempstead Harbor Artists, Glen Cove, NY Photography Plus or Minus 1985-80 Polaroid Gallery, Cambridge, MA group shows 1983 Hempstead Harbor Artists, Glen Cove, NY Ready for Prime Time Artists SELECTED INTERNATIONAL BOOK PUBLICATIONS: 1999-94 Men of Achievement, UK 1999-95 International Directory of Biography, UK 1995 Der Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AUSTRIA 1991,90 Der Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AUSTRIA 1987 Unix System Programming, U K (cover) SELECTED DOMESTIC BOOK PUBLICATIONS: 2004 Who's Who in the World 21St Edition, NJ 2000 Photographer's Market, OH 1999-94 Who's Who in American Art, NJ 1999-91 Who's Who Of Young American Professionals, NJ 1999-90 Who's Who in the East, NJ 1988 Cybernetic Romance, Peregrine, UT SELECTED DOMESTIC PUBLICATIONS: 2002 Wired, CA 2002 Detroit Free Press, MI 2002 Detroit News, MI 2002 Real Detroit Weekly, MI 2001 Times News, PA 2000 Photographer's Forum, CA 2000 Lehigh Valley Magazine, PA 2000 Express-Times, PA 2000 Morning Call, PA 2000 Erie Times, PA 1999 Express-Times, PA 1999 Camcorder and Computer Video, CA 1999 Photo District News Pix, NY 1998 Lehigh Valley Magazine, PA 1998 Morning Call, PA 1998 Express-Times, PA 1998 The Arts Connection, PA 1998 Reading Eagle, PA 1995 Sun, FL (cover & article) 1995 Express-Times, PA 1993 Desktop Video World, VT 1989 Electronic Musician, CA 1988 Philadelphia Inquirer, PA 1988 Newsday, NY 1987 Studio Photography, NY 1983 New York Times, NY