Oscar Capezio

About the work

This year for Canberra Art Biennial, Oscar Capezio curates a Spring exhibition for Al Fresco, titled “Clay Pit”. “Clay Pit” is an installation of sculpture, assemblage and painting by Francis Carmody, Caspar Connolly, Bill Hawkins, Yvette James, and Katie Ryan. These artists cultivate material forms through an analysis of how the structure of the natural world influences human behavior, spawning the creation of complex processes of adaptation, invention, and extraction. Through an exploration of the symbiotic structure of relationships between people and place, the past and the present, these artists work to reveal the tensions at play between realms of human and non-human experience, knowledge, and feeling.

Image credits to the artist

About the artist

Oscar Capezio is an artist/curator and painter, Director of Al Fresco – Fine Arts Outdoors (est. 2022), and Curator of the ANU Art Collection at the Drill Hall Gallery (2020-). He completed a Bachelor of Art History & Curatorship (Honours, First Class) at the ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory in 2015, receiving the Janet Wilke Prize for Art History. Oscar was a founding board-member of Tributary Projects, Fyshwick (2015-2018), and has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions since 2013. His artwork is held in the collection of ArtBank, and several private collections within Australia. He often writes exhibition-texts for artists and exhibition reviews for Art Monthly Australasia.