RJ Calabrese
Lebanon NJ
Showcase 14C artist 2021
RJ Calabrese creates work concerned with a mixture of disparates in meta-narrative situations where familiarity collides with uncertainty. Interested in presenting realities with recognizable elements but overshadowed by strangeness, Calabrese often includes figures engaged in a mixture of activities at various points of defeat with humorous, eroticized, or foreboding undercurrents.
Animals become fixtures, trophies, and other artifacts marked by domination. The use of playful colors and shapes attract the viewer while dismembered bodies and other displays of violence repulse them.
Born and raised in the suburbs of Trenton, NJ, he has since moved to the rolling hills of Hunterdon County where he, his wife, three boys, 2 dogs, and 6 chickens are surrounded by deer, horses, and other animals he never saw in Trenton.
Peek-A-Boo
RJ Calabrese
Peek-A-Boo
8.5 x 8 x 2 inches
Water mixable oil paint, polymer clay, thread and graphite on wood
2009
$850
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Bunker Room 3: Game Rooms
RJ Calabrese
Bunker Room 3: Game Rooms
18 x 18 x 2 inches
Water mixable oil paint, polymer clay, resin, moldable plastic, silicone, faux fur, on cradled wood
2023
$3,500
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Shimmy
RJ Calabrese
Shimmy
8.5 x 8 x 2 inches
Water mixable oil paint, graphite on wood
2009
$850
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Procession
RJ Calabrese
Procession
8.5 x 8 x 2
Water mixable oil paint, polymer clay, flocking on wood
2013
$850
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Poop Ship Destroyer
RJ Calabrese
Poop Ship Destroyer
8.5 x 8 x 2 inches
Water mixable oil paint, polymer clay, faux fur on wood
2013
$850
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Catch a Rising Star
RJ Calabrese
Catch A Rising Star
8.5 x 8 x 2 inches
Water mixable oil paint, polymer clay, flocking on wood
2013
SOLD
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Rescue
RJ Calabrese
Rescue
8.5 x 8 x 2
Water mixable oil paint, polymer clay, on wood
2013
SOLD
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