“[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

 

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EXHIBITIONS

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

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:

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