A book of paintings, drawings and emotions that capture, from the first night of September 11th 2001, to one year later. A struggled journey through sorrow, pain, loss and hope. A first person experience from an artist that lived and worked in New York City for 20 years by that time and who refused to leave. Instead every night and day laid down marks to remember, to understand, to cope. Working for at least nine months of it where the burning smoke made it hard to see from one side of the studio to the other clearly.

Anthony Graviano lived on the corner of Howard and Crosby Streets, roughly twelve blocks from the World Trade Center. What happened there, what was there, and what remains we can all see in the quiet of our minds. That is not enough. The memory we have of that day is not enough. We need each others' memories. We need to tell our stories of those days. We need to hear them outloud and in front of us. We need to see them, too. We need to see through others' eyes the scenes of and among the months following September 11, 2001. One recurring image in Anthony's paintings is of gears among the ruins, tossed carelessly there the way a child abandons a toy. Why would a building, now crushed, contain such gears? The elevator, maybe? Some secret machine of commerce and finance? Or the airplane, one of them? Yes, it must be a gear from the engine of one of the airplanes. He lived among the scenes and the smoke we all saw on television. It was impossible. It seems impossible even now, twenty years later. Still a nightmare.

Anthony Graviano ph: 917.670.0065 email: anthony@anthonygraviano.com Born: Yonkers, New York 1968 Education: SUNY College at Purchase, Purchase N.Y., B.F.A. 1990 New York Studio School, 1989 Selected Exhibitions Virgil Catherine Gallery, The Philoche Collection, Hindsdale, Il, 2021 Site Projects, Crashing Chelsea, New York, N. Y., 2008 Emergency Arts, 551 w 21 st , New York, N. Y., May 2006 Ground Zero; Artfirm Project Gallery New York, N.Y., May 2002 Playground of the Fearless, (in cooperation with Dietch Projects New York), Entropy, New York, NY, 2001 Kama Sutra, Embraces, New York, N.Y., 2001 Ne'er Do Wells, DNA Studios, New York, N.Y., 2000 The Grant Gallery, New York, N.Y., 2000 Ragnorack, New York, N.Y., 1999 Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, Absolut Secret, London, England, 1999 Artists Space, Night Of a Thousand Drawings, New York, N.Y.,1998 TMX Fine Arts, The Viewing Room, New York, N.Y.,1998 Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, Absolut Secret, London, England, 1997 The Cursio Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1996 Bibliography Schmerler, Sarah, The Art of The Dealer, Time Out, 1999 ARD, German News, Live Today, Live interview One Year Later, 2002 Chris Chambers, Summer Picks, New York Arts Magazine, 2002 Merenzon, Eli, Artists of New York, Anthony Graviano, New Russian Word, 2001 Private Collections New York, Rome, Italy, London, England, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan and China.