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Mike Ciccotello
Little Silver, NJ
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Biography
Michael Ciccotello is a NJ-based fine artist and a member of Albus Cavus, a non-profit artist collective. He has worked in a variety of media from three-dimensional animated motion graphics, to large-scale outdoor murals. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1997 from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. In 1999 he began working in broadcast design and motion graphics. After working eight years at CNN, in 2007 Ciccotello took an opportunity to help launch the Fox Business Network, where he is currently the Senior 3D Real-Time Graphics Specialist. His illustrations have appeared on CNN's News Night with Aaron Brown, Dolan's Unscripted, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Anderson Cooper 360 as well as Fox Business Network's Stossel. Ciccotello received the 2007 LA Press Club Award for Best Editorial Comic for his illustration work on Schmooze or Lose. Ciccotello currently resides in Little Silver, N.J. with his wife, Anne-Marie and cat, Rueben.
Statement
Movement. Energy. Color. Connection. These are words that come to mind while I paint. My mark is my language that I have developed all of my life and will continue to develop for the rest of it. It is a language that I understand and need to discover at the same time. The marks come from within me, yet I can't explain exactly why or how I created them. The shapes look like gears or puzzle pieces that assemble the world around us, defining connections through objects and space. Each shape needs the other to exist. Scribbles and dots adorn these shapes creating a playful conversation among this unique cast of characters. These marks became evident between the years 2000 and 2001 in the first paintings I made after college. I moved from oil to acrylic, for concern of painting in my living space and the need for a quick-drying material. My paintings ''Don't Hold Back'' and ''Grounded'' were the first to show these marks. They seemed ornamental, without purpose. It was not until 2005 when I painted ''Dana’s Sky'' that I realized that shapes had purpose. I noticed that clouds and sky were broken into shapes similar to gears assembling the sky. I started to fluidly paint these shapes as if I was writing with a pen. I felt the best way for me to explore them was by painting my environment. I take the train daily into New York and started to keep a photo journal of my commute in 2004. I use these photos to explore my language by painting what I see.