Paul Cava
Still Life #2904, 2021
Archival pigment print
11" x 14.5"

Artist Bio
I was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1949. Following college and graduate school in the late 1960s, my early explorations included poetry, filmmaking, photography, and painting. Over the last three decades, I have arrived at a hybrid practice that both synthesizes my previous efforts and anticipates the revolution of digitally manipulated imagery. Combining photographic imagery with words, collages, drawings, painting, and printmaking into a multi-dimensional visual language, my current work has evolved into personal visual poetry.

I have exhibited paintings, drawings, and photo-based works from 1976 to the present in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe. My work has been collected by a broad range of private and public institutions, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Princeton University Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania Convention Center, and The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. My work has been showcased in numerous publications, including Still Modern After All These Years, Chrysler Museum, Eyemazing Magazine, and Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde. I was awarded Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants in 1981 and 1999. In the fall of 2005, the German publisher Galerie Vevais released Children of Adam, a volume combining my photo-based art with Walt Whitman's poetry.

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