About the Artist:
Anthony Congiano
Our Artist was born and raised in New York. As a child, his
parents fondly recall him playing Air Guitar to his Mom's "Meet the
Beatles" album before he could even read. Identifying the LP only by it's
cover and the four blue tinted faces.
Writing and painting came naturally as a youngster but his
creativity truly began to flourish when AC unwrapped his first electric
guitar
during Christmas of 1988, a red Kramer Baretta, which remains to this day,
one of his favorite axes to chop on. Anthony studied music and creative writing in high
school, wrote for his school literary publication the Apocalypse, and later took
professional music lessons at Gil Breines Music Conservatory.
In the early 90’s AC’s Jagger-like vocals landed him in
several garage and club bands… but it was his continuing study of progressive
and modal theory that landed him the lead guitar spot in the “Alibis”,
where
he helped covered everyone from Van Halen to Nirvana.
During this time Anthony persistently penned new poetry, setting many of his words to music, and prolifically created new black and white pen and inks. One of his best, entitled "Angel" was chosen for the cover of Dyno-Rad Art's "The Unknown Starving Artists of New York" publication in 1994.
But by his birthday in ’95, Anthony was fed up with covering other musician's music, so he said goodbye to his cover bands, sold his baseball card collection to purchase new recording equipment, and let his creative juices flow.
In 1996 AC was one of the winners in Rodell’s Nationwide
Sounds from the Underground Contest, with “So Low Solo” and “Front Row
O”. Then, in early ‘97 AC’s song “Where Went the Other Day” was
featured on the Best of the Unsigned Bands CD Reaction Volume 7. 1999 found
Anthony winning
McQuin's Best Original Song with "What a Way to Go".
In 2000 his poetry won Poettique’s “Best
Work” with Friends
Forever.
2001 saw Congiano.com debut as Anthony endeavored to sharpen his artistic eye with original photography, snapping shots and capturing imagery from the whimsical to the erotic, from high contrast black & whites through bold experimentations with color. Three of AC's photos from the September 11th Tragedy were among the 1500 contributed and featured at The September 11 Photo Project on 26 Wooster Street in New York's Soho.
On the music front,
his blazing chops wowed them at Guitar Armageddon 2001 and in 2002, his lighting
fretwork blazed at Speed Thrills. This year has seen several new
Photography Gallerys and AC won Digital
Photo Contest.com's Animal Photo and Travel
Architecture Photo of the Day as well.
AC picked up Photo of the Week at Minolta USA.com on 12-09-03 and again in 2003.
The winter of 2005 saw several photographs published, including "Roar" in "Endless Journeys" after being advanced as a semi finalist in Animals/Pets at Picture.com's.
Anthony Congiano relentlessly strives to surpass the boundaries of artistic exploration while reaching new plateaus of innovative expression. So far, 2006 has seen Congiano.com double in size with new poetry, photography, MP3's, and artwork.
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