About the Artist

     DOMINICK BOTTICELLI, born in New York,

is direct descendant of the Early Renaissance painter, Sandro Botticelli. 

     He has been described as a Conceptual Artist, a Symbolic Surrealist and a Philosophical Iconist.  A self-taught artist, his body of work spans over 40 years and tells the story of the evolution of human consciousness.  In his paintings, Botticelli takes powerful archetypes and icons and manipulates them to illustrate their operation in the human subconscious.  For example, in his "Luciferic Principles and the Rite of Passage," the devil is seated in a stormy landscape where he is reading the bible.  At one level of consciousness, good and evil are at opposite ends of the great polarity.  Here they unite in a holistic worldview under the principle that all things, being metaphysical or physical, have the right to progress to a higher level of consciousness.  When the light and dark are reconciled within the individual and in turn in larger culture, balance and conscious behavior become possible.  In his "The Other Looking Glass" trilogy, Botticelli explores global warming and humanity's unwillingness to see the issues clearly enough to create a sustainable culture in time.  We are Alice, blind to our participation in environmental damage as we accept our opium of choice from the hookah-smoking caterpillar.  We choose consumerism or denial of the issues as the White Rabbit frantically tries to point out that time is ticking irrevocably.  Botticelli's latest works show humanity's potential to attain higher levels of consciousness.  "Intergalactic Communion" and "Universal Gestation" point to our potential to access our mastery while here on earth. 

     Botticelli's works have been on exhibit in Chelsea, Manhattan, Los Angeles, Connecticut and New Jersey.  He has been featured in numerous magazine and newspaper articles as well as in national and international television coverage of exhibits.  He enjoys sharing his love of painting by teaching small classes at his studio.

     Botticelli works in pen and ink, oil and acrylic paints.  Themes include surrealism, religious, symbolic, fantasy, philosophical and conceptual art.