Kurt Capalbo is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work revolves around harnessing the natural entropy of forgotten materials to highlight the degradation we create in modern society. This regenerative approach allows the art to comment on the failures of globalization while providing inspiration for new opportunities to thrive. Works transcend a single medium using recycled materials such as glass, metals, plastics and wax alongside conventional acrylics, oils, markers and pencils.
Explorations though urban and natural environments provide the menagerie of raw materials, often treated as waste, as inspiration for his fragmented visual motifs. He refers to his work as socially responsible and innately durable by striving to bring beauty from discarded byproducts. Akin to the randomness of particles colliding, he meshes an artistic stew of organic evolution, enabling his work to take on a life of its own.
The human race will be gone well before his art has reached its denouement. This organized decomposition is the true chronicle of Kurt’s experiences through art.