“[Capezzuti] has hit on a common denominator in the laundry-drying world while provoking questions about the nature of art. To find all this and humor too is a rare thing.”
—Ellen Wilson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
EXHIBITIONS |
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2024 | Wing Envy, Solo Installation, Pittsburgh International Airport |
2024 | Hereafter, Group Show, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA |
2024 | 16th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition, GoggleWorks, Reading, PA |
2024 | Little Bits of Us, Solo Installation, Silver Apple Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
2024 | Lawrenceville 2024, Solo Installation, The Laundry Club (a working laundromat), Pittsburgh, PA |
2024 | Furry Friends, Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA |
2024 | Featured Artist Exhibition, Group Show, AAP Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
2023 | Associated Artists of Pittsburgh New Member Show, Brew House Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
2023 | Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Online Featured Artist (June) |
2023 | Taking up Space, Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA |
2020 | Discarded: A Retrospective, Solo Show, BE Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA |
2020 | Laundromat Pop-Up, Butler St. Coin-Op Laundry (a working laundromat), Pittsburgh, PA |
2016 | Stix and Stones, Group Show, Zoller Gallery, University Park, PA |
2013 | Details in Everyday Dust, Trey’s Laundromat (a working laundromat), Pittsburgh, PA |
2009 | 8-Hour Projects, Group Show, Allegheny College Galleries, Meadville, PA |
2008 | In the Making, 250 Pittsburgh Artists, FE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
2007 | Member Show, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA |
2006 | In Response to Healing, Nationally Traveling Juried Group Exhibition, PA, OH and AZ |
2007 | Puppets and Masks, Two Person Show, Gallerie Chiz, Pittsburgh, PA |
2005 | Puppets, Masks and Art in Motion, Group Show, Artist Upstairs, Pittsburgh, PA |
2003 | Detours, FE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA and ArtSpot at Tube, Atlanta, GA |
2003 | A Detour from Detours, Midtown Laundry, Atlanta, GA |
2003 | A Detour from Detours, Butler St. Coin-Op Laundry (a working laundromat), Pittsburgh, PA |
2002 | Angels and Other Creatures, Solo Show, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
2002 | Letters of Lint, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA |
2002 | Orphaned Spaces in the Public Realm, Group Show, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA |
2001-2004 | Changing Solo Exhibitions, Duds ‘N Suds Laundromat (a working laundromat), Pittsburgh, PA |
1998 | From Foundation to Ornamentation, Group Show, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1997 | The Doll Show, Group Show, Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA |
1993 | Discarded, Solo Show, The Art Alliance, Lemont, PA |
COMMUNITY INTERACTIVE PUBLIC ART PROJECTS |
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2016-present | Giant Puppet Dance Club, a community-powered dance experience, Pittsburgh, PA |
2013-present | Puppets to Go at the Braddock Carnegie Free Library, a lending library of giant puppets |
1994-present | The National Lint Project, an on-going venture that features sculptures made from donated dryer lint and hundreds of collected letters about doing laundry |
2023 | Play in peace, commissioned by the Office of Public Art to create one of five Pittsburgh scenarios for Amal Walks Across America, Pittsburgh, PA |
2019 | Pittsburgh International Airport Artist-in-Residence, Pittsburgh, PA |
2019-2021 | IllumiNATION, a campus-wide art experience, Penn State University, University Park, PA |
2013 | Everyday Art Assignments, an interactive, challenge-based experience, Pittsburgh, PA |
2001-2004 | Lint in the Laundromat, a series of weekly happenings at a working laundromat, Pittsburgh, PA |
WORK HISTORY: |
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1996-present | Visual Artist, Studio Capezzuti, Pittsburgh, PA |
2009-present | Visual Arts Faculty, Falk Lab School, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA |
2020-present | Artist-in-Residence, BE Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA |
2002-2012 | Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Artist-in-Residence, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts |
2001-2002 | Community Artist Fellow, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA |
1996-2001 | Visual Arts Faculty, Winchester Thurston School, Pittsburgh, PA |