About

Art is ultimately just another way to find meaning and hope amid the unbearable facts of the world that surround us. Much of my recent work has drawn inspiration from traditions of religious woodcarving, African, indigenous Pacific Northwest, Medieval Catholic. Drawing on these traditions, my work reflects my own struggles with the fears and hopes of the modern world. My work strives to reflect that struggle in a way that is unsentimental, but hopeful rather than nihilistic.

Contact
anthony.santella@gmail.com
201 951 1060

Selected Exhibits
Juried shows:

November 2010, Five decades of Fantastic, Murphy Hill Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
March 2009, Emerging Artists, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
March 2008 18th annual Faces of Women Exhibit, Las Vegas Art's Council, Las Vegas, NM (Honorable Mention)
January 2008, Bitter Fruit, Altered Aesthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
November 2007, Small Works, Lana Santorelli Gallery, NY, NY
November 2007, The Look of Love, Kimball Hill Gallery, Barrington, IL
November 2007, Craven Arts Council Sculpture Show, New Bern, NC
September 2007, The Art of Sacrifice, Altered Aesthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
October 2007, Gallery "Sassetti Cultura" and the Society for Art of Imagination, Milan, Italy
July 2007, Viridian Artists 18th Juried Exhibition, NY, NY
June 2007, Where Science Meets Art, The Gallery at Penn College, Williamsport, PA
April 2007, Art Reincarnated, Altered Aesthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
March 2007, 17th annual Faces of Women Exhibit, Las Vegas Art's Council, Las Vegas, NM (Honorable Mention)
February 2007, 30th Small Works Show, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, NY, NY
Oct 2006, Strange Cities Gallery 27+ and Reflect Arts Inc. NY, NY
June 2006, A Feast For the Imagination, H.R. Giger Museum in association with the Society for Art of Imagination, Château Gruyères, Gruyères, Switzerland
June 2006, Artooning, Main St Gallery, Groton, NY
May 2006, Circus Surreal, Micromuseum and Reflect Arts Inc, Brooklyn, NY
Sept 2001 SIAC Society of Christian Artists Jubilee show Dudelange, Luxembourg

Solo shows:

January, 2009, Weiner Library, Farliegh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, featured on the cover of the Better Living Section, The Bergen Record Monday April 6th 2009
October 2008, Openings Art Space, St Paul the Apostle Church, NY, NY
February 2008, Lounge Zen Gallery, Teaneck, NJ
July 2008, Glen Rock Public Library, Glen Rock, NJ
March 2006, Micromuseum, Brooklyn NY
May 2005, Rutgers University Busch Student Center Gallery, Piscataway, NJ
May 2001, Rutgers Busch Student Center Gallery

Other Exhibits, Experience, Publications

June 2013 to appear First Person Plural, St Francis College, Brooklyn, NY
Oct. 2012, Frenzy Into Folly, St Paul the Apostle church, NY, NY
Nov. 2011, Rumble Above the Clouds, St Paul the Apostle church, NY,NY
Feb. 2011, 32 Below, St. Cecilia's Brooklyn, NY
Dec 2010, curator, 'Inside: artwork by an imprisoned artist' Openings Artspace, NY, NY
Sept. 2010, exhibitor and co curator, Naked Measures, St Paul the Apostle Church, NY, NY
May 2010, Little Martyrs, Irondale Arts Center, Brooklyn NY
2010, Featured in the book Addiction and Art edited by Patricia B. Santora, Margaret L. Dowell, and Jack E. Henningfield
John Hopkins University Press
May 2009 Art of Vision, Seed Gallery, Newark, NJ, Featured in an article in the Bergen Record, Thu May 7th Better Living section
April 2009, At This Moment She…, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
May, June, 2008, Art and Addiction, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville Maryland, College on Problems of Drug Dependence San Juan Puerto Rico
May 2008, Sacred Surveillance, St Paul the Apostle Church, NY, NY
May Sept 2008, Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit (1st place, sculpture)
March 2008, Hocus Pocus, Curious Matter Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
January 2009, Change, Seed Gallery, Newark, NJ
Nov 2008, In Search of Heroic Beings, Teaneck Public Library, Teaneck, NJ
Oct 2008, Zombies & Aliens at the Agni Gallery, NY, NY
Oct 2008, The Art of Healing, Therese A. Maloney Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
Sept. 2008, Between Worlds, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
April 2008, Earth Day Show, BRING gallery, Eugene Oregon
April 2008, Surrealism: Too Real is Too Real, RRCA gallery, Millville, NJ
March 2008, Here Be Monsters: An Abridged Bestiary of Contemporary Monsters, Flanders 311, Raleigh NC
January 2008, Self Evident: Contemporary American Self-Portraiture, Claypool-Young Art Gallery Morehead, Kentucky
October 2007, Featured Artist, Weird Sisters magazine
October 2007, Northern New Jersey Woodcarving Show, two 1st place Advanced Class awards
October 2007, 3d Annual Halloween Show, Visions Gallery, Medway, MA
May 2007 Assistant to Environmental Artist Roy Staab during "Alien Beauty" installation at Teaneck Creek Conservancy and Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ (Featured in American Craft Magazine)
April 2007, Revolution, Zimerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
April 2007, Get Out of Jail Free, Visual Aid, The Center's Gallery, San Francisco, CA
August 2006, Metamorphosis, Mill art gallery, Lafayette, NJ

Personal

My personal website, an almost perfectly preserved time capsule from circa 2005.

Education:

Rutgers University, Graduate School New Brunswick, NJ
Ph.D., Computer Science, Certificate in Cognitive Science
Thesis: The Art of Seeing: Non-Photorealistic Rendering and Visual Perception
May 2005
New York University, College of Arts and Sciences NY, NY
BA., Computer Science
May 1999

Art-related academic publications:

Forrester Cole, Doug DeCarlo, Adam Finkelstein, Kenrick Kin, Keith Morley, and Anthony Santella, "Directing Gaze in 3D Models with Stylized Focus," Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, June 2006

A. Santella, M. Agrawala, D. DeCarlo, D. Salesin, and M. Cohen, "Gaze-Based Interaction for Semi-Automatic Photo Cropping" in Proceedings Computer Human Interaction (CHI) 2006, pp. 771-780. 2006

A. Santella, and D. DeCarlo, "Visual Interest and NPR: an Evaluation and Manifesto". In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR) 2004, pp 71-78, 2004.

D. DeCarlo, A. Finkelstein, S. Rusinkiewicz, and A. Santella, "Suggestive Contours for Conveying Shape". In ACM Transactions on Graphics, 22(3) (SIGGRAPH 2003 Proceedings), pp 848-855, 2003.

D. DeCarlo, and A. Santella, "Stylization and Abstraction of Photographs". In ACM Transactions on Graphics, 21(3) (SIGGRAPH 2002 Proceedings), pp 769-776, 2002.(An image from this paper was selected for the proceedings cover.)

A. Santella, and D. DeCarlo, "Abstracted Painterly Renderings Using Eye-tracking Data". In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR) 2002, pp 75-82, 2002.