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A.J. Bocchino collects headlines and photographs from different media sources including the New York Times, The Washington Post and Newsweek. This information is used as data for systems that generate complex drawings and sculptures. His projects are driven by an analysis of the mass media as well as the processes of accumulation, archiving and record keeping. In these particular works, he has excised the main headline from the front page of the New York Times every day for six years: 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933 and 2008.
The headlines are listed in chronological order and are color-coded according to subject. This project examines the parallels between the economic collapse of the 1930’s and that of today.
Bocchino received an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. He has had solo exhibitions at White Columns, NYC; Urban Glass Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC.
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