Fort Plain Artist Exhibits Work at SUNY Cobleskill

Fort Plain artist, Philip Scalia has a collection of his photographs entitled “Understudy” and drawings, titled “Entheopedia” on display in SUNY Cobleskill’s Grosvernor Gallery through April 30. There will be an artist talk on April 23 at 3 p.m. in the gallery, sponsored by Cobleskill Auxiliary Services, followed by a reception.

Scalia’s photographs are a series of large format cibachrome prints focused on intimate views of upstate New York foliage.  His graphite and ink drawings are a series of “streams of consciousness” line and word studies.

He has been an independent digital stock and commercial photographer for five years, though Scalia’s roots run deep as he has working as a photographer since the early 1980s. His work has been published in magazines world wide including Vespasian, a quarterly magazine in Italy, Tip a magazine in Germany, as well as the state of New Hampshire official tourist guide and Butcher’s Block magazine in Brooklyn. Scalia has exhibited his work up and down the east coast ranging from Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, Mass., Artworx in Saratoga Springs, to the University of New England in Beddeford, Maine, and the Enderline Gallery in Roxbury.