ARTIST PROFILE: Tony D'Amico
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Beginning his career as a commercial artist/illustrator, Tony D’Amico has accumulated over 25 years of advertising and promotional experience, holding creative management positions in such companies as American Home Products, Playtex, and the Pepsi-Cola Company. He founded his own design firm Creative Alliance based in Southport CT, where under his direction, the agency won a number of awards for creative excellence. The client roster included, The Pepsi-Cola Company, AT&T, Tiffany & Company, ebay and the Guinness Importing Company for whom they created the “Win a Pub in Ireland” contest. Evolving into one of the top promotion and event marketing agencies in the US, he sold the company to the Publicis Groupe, an international advertising and media services conglomerate.
Public recognition of his work has encouraged Tony to focus solely on his career as a fine artist. His drawings demonstrate skilled draftsmanship and his paintings reflect an admiration for the sunlit palette of the early California impressionists. Tony's art conveys his idealized vision of the subject matter with specific emphasis on landscape and architecture.
Over the past several years, Tony has studied with a number of nationally recognized artists such as David Dunlop, Scott Waddell, Gabor Svagrik, Chris Magadini, William P. Duffy and more recently, ongoing study with the noted artist, Donald Demers. He has won numerous awards and is well represented in municipal and private collections. He is a member of the Lyme Art Association, and an elected artist at the Mystic Art Center.
SHOWS & AWARDS
2010 Mystic Arts Center Annual Members Show
2010 18th Lyme Art Association Annual Associate Artist Juried Exhibition
2009 Lyme Art Association Juried Show - The New England Landscape
Invitational
Jurors: Louis Bonamarte, David Bareford and Russ Kramer
2009 Lyme Art Association Juried Show - Cityscape Exhibition
2009 Lyme Art Association Juried Show - Summer Painting & Sculpture
Exhibition
Jurors: Lou Bonamarte, Hollis Dunlap, Leif Nilsson and Ron Saporito
2009 Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 98th Annual Juried Exhibition
2009 Mystic Arts Center Elected Artist Exhibition
2009 17th Lyme Art Association Annual Associate Artist Juried Exhibition
2009 Mystic Arts Center Annual Members Show
2008 Lyme Art Association Juried Show - Deck the Halls
Annual Holiday Exhibition & Sale
Jurors: Bobbie Maiser, Joann Ballinger, Jim Christley,
Judy Chapman, Jan Royce Conant
2008 Lyme Art Association Juried Show - The New England Landscape
Jurors: Robert Duffy and Michael Graves
2008 52nd Regional Juried Show at the Mystic Arts Center
2008 Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 97th Annual Juried Exhibition
2008 Sylvan Gallery 1st Annual Juried Show: A Sense of Place
2008 33rd Madison CT Art Society Juried Annual Exhibition
• Prize award for “Along the Lieutenant River”
2008 Venice Art Center Juried Show - Annual Members Exhibition
Juror: Jeff Cornell
2008 Mystic Arts Center Annual Members Show
2008 Lyme Art Association Juried Show - Midwinter Painting & Sculpture
Exhibition & Sale
Juror: Ann Scanlon
2007 51st Regional Juried Show, Mystic Art Center
• Prize award for “Summer Clouds”
2007 Lyme Art Association: Lyme Light Juried Art Exhibition
2007 32nd Madison CT Art Society Juried Annual Exhibition
2007 Lyme Art Association: Wonders of Winter Juried Art Exhibition
2007 15th Lyme Art Association Annual Associate Artist Exhibition
2007 106th New Haven Paint & Clay Club Annual Juried Exhibition
• Prize Award for “ Path to Chapman Beach”
2006 31st Madison CT Art Society Juried Annual Exhibition
2006 31st Madison CT Art Society Members Exhibition
• Prize Award for “Morning Shadows - Portofino”
2005 30th Madison CT Art Society Juried Annual Exhibition
Juror: Ken Davies
• Prize award for “Paris at Night”
2004 29th Madison CT Art Society Juried Annual Exhibition
• Prize award for “White Memorial”
2003 28th Madison CT Art Society Juried Annual Exhibition
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