Like many of the queer local artists who live full-time in Provincetown, Jamie Casertano wears several other hats. Queerguru knows him best as the Technical Wizz behind the Cabaret Shows at the Art House Theater. It seems that this is in part an end to means as it provides him with an opportunity to practice his art.
His discovery of photography occurred in his father’s basement darkroom. back in Brooklyn. He did then, and still now, loves the dark. The urge to take photographs soon followed and later led him to study photography.. He seeks images in both the elusive dark corners and brightly lit stages of personality. Drawn to a diverse array of subject matter, his photographs vary from quiet to loud aesthetically, veiled to brazen in content and distant to intimate emotionally. The works of artists Diane Arbus, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Peter Hujar, Kembra Pfahler, Yasumasa Morimura and Martin Parr are of great influence, to name a few. Casertano studied photography with Mark Asnin, among others, at the School of Visual Arts in New York. At that time, he was paired with and mentored by noted photographer Bill Jacobson. His photographs are in the collections of the Provincetown Museum and The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City.
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The images are from his new show at AMP Gallery in PTown titled A Bowl of Cherries, Selected Photographs 1999-2021 that opened on September 24th.
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Labels: 2021, AMP Gallery, art, Jamie Casertano, Provincetown Culture
