Art Bites

"ART FLOWS LIKE WATER" is an art exhibit featuring whose work focuses on Water Conservation both fresh and salt and it’s fauna. The show is being curated by Chicago artist Michael Angelo Gagliardi. The artists come from all parts of the USA but all share a deep love and dedication to our planets Oceans, lakes, rivers and springs. The exhibit is sponsored by and is part of OUR WORLD-UNDERWATER the Midwest largest scuba dive industry expo. OWU is at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, IL on February 17 thru 19, 2012. http://www.ourworldunderwater.com/

An Event of our World Underwater.  This event is an event not to miss.  Go to the website http://www.ourworldunderwater.com/ to purchase your event ticket goes to a great cause. Thanks! From the Swarm and our friends at Our World Underwater

  Michael Angelo Gagliardi was born in New York City in 1962 to Irish and Italian Parents.  He grew up living in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island, where he attended Msgr. Farrell High School.  He received a B.F.A. in painting and sculpture and a M.A. in Theatrical Design from C.W. College of Long Island University in 1985.  Michael Angelo sold his first painting in a bar on St Mark’s Place at the tender age of 17.  He is eternally grateful for not being carded that day.  Upon graduating college MA moved back to NYC where he kept studios in the East Village then Williamsburg Brooklyn.  Though finding his own path artistically, he is still to this day influenced by the Neo-Expressionist style.  Making a living in the NYC off Broadway theatre scene MA learned to be a scenic artist and stage craftsperson.  He never stopped making his own art showing mostly at that time in the smaller East Village Galleries.  Along with a group o...