The Last Thing on My Mind

The Last Thing on My Mind
Anthony Michael Venturi

Walnut ink, shellac, acrylic primer, wood
4" H x 11" W x 2.5" D
2024

Anthony Michael Venturi is a student at Boston University completing their BFA in Painting this spring. Their work is a result of seeing. Honestly, and as if for the first time. In this practice of location, place is simultaneously noun and verb.

Their practice is rooted in a child’s never-ending “why?” With reverence and gentle hands, artifacts of the field are extracted; calibrated with an attention to changing geologic conditions in pressure and temperature. That is to say that the works are felt as much as seen.
Pieces are often produced from a fine-toothed filing of the mind. To break apart and disassemble all the parts to only put them back together. A sifting of sand in the attempt to find something solid.

The objects are intimate and slowly steeped in the habitual ruminations of the everyday. Morning teas, banagrams, tree-greetings, and sun embraces. This steeping is often demonstrated in the transformation of material; walnut husks juiced, surfaces shellacked, and often seasoned with a sprinkling of organic debris. The work comes out of this cannibalistic brew of unrepeatability.

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