{"title":"James Formichella: Animal, Alphabet, Apocalypse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJames Formichella works by association. Each of these nine paintings has a companion in \"An Alphabetical Caprice,\" a notebook he compiled from his working notes and clippings, where every letter spirals somewhere unexpected: an aardvark to apartheid, a bear to Wall Street, Van Gogh to a dog. Art history, etymology, money, madness, and mortality, all rhyming.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"james-formichella-canvas-print-1","title":"Aardvark","description":"\u003cp\u003eA colonial banquet painted as one of Goya's black dreams. Sashed dignitaries and gowned women crowd a table set with a roast bird, while a gaunt, long-snouted figure and an African woman with a staff hover at the edges. The letter A runs the chain: aardvark, the earth-pig, to Afrikaner, to the Dutch East India Company, the Great Trek, Blood River, apartheid. The feast of empire, the bill still unpaid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Formichella is a Gloucester painter who works by association. Each of these canvases has a companion in \u003cem\u003eAn Alphabetical Caprice\u003c\/em\u003e, a notebook he compiled from his working notes and source clippings: an A to Z in which every letter spirals off into art history, etymology, money, madness, and mortality. He came to Gloucester from Denver in 1978 for the plein-air light, trained in oil under John C. Terelak, and is an associate member of the North Shore Arts Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of a kind. Giclée on stretched canvas, a flat $180 regardless of size. Fish City Studios, 39 Main St, Gloucester. 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Each of these canvases has a companion in \u003cem\u003eAn Alphabetical Caprice\u003c\/em\u003e, a notebook he compiled from his working notes and source clippings: an A to Z in which every letter spirals off into art history, etymology, money, madness, and mortality. He came to Gloucester from Denver in 1978 for the plein-air light, trained in oil under John C. Terelak, and is an associate member of the North Shore Arts Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of a kind. Giclée on stretched canvas, a flat $180 regardless of size. Fish City Studios, 39 Main St, Gloucester. 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Its companion pages in the notebook gather his reading on Ivan Boesky and a line he copied out, \"Money is nothing but the vehicle for a movement in which everything else that is not in motion is completely extinguished.\" Vulture capitalism, painted as a deathbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Formichella is a Gloucester painter who works by association. Each of these canvases has a companion in \u003cem\u003eAn Alphabetical Caprice\u003c\/em\u003e, a notebook he compiled from his working notes and source clippings: an A to Z in which every letter spirals off into art history, etymology, money, madness, and mortality. He came to Gloucester from Denver in 1978 for the plein-air light, trained in oil under John C. Terelak, and is an associate member of the North Shore Arts Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of a kind. Giclée on stretched canvas, a flat $180 regardless of size. Fish City Studios, 39 Main St, Gloucester. Leaves the gallery ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Formichella","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48394770284714,"sku":"FCS-JF-004","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/6371\/9082\/files\/IMG_20260610_121915.png?v=1781110106"},{"product_id":"james-formichella-canvas-print-5","title":"Night of the Iguana (Blake's Tour)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA great green iguana suns itself at the foot of a Blakean whirlwind: naked souls rising, a golden figure with arms flung wide, apples and crescent moons. Two stories share the title. Tennessee Williams' defrocked Shannon, tied down at the end of his rope, and William Blake's visionary crowds at the Last Judgment. The reptile is cold-blooded and patient; the humans are on fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Formichella is a Gloucester painter who works by association. Each of these canvases has a companion in \u003cem\u003eAn Alphabetical Caprice\u003c\/em\u003e, a notebook he compiled from his working notes and source clippings: an A to Z in which every letter spirals off into art history, etymology, money, madness, and mortality. He came to Gloucester from Denver in 1978 for the plein-air light, trained in oil under John C. Terelak, and is an associate member of the North Shore Arts Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of a kind. Giclée on stretched canvas, a flat $180 regardless of size. Fish City Studios, 39 Main St, Gloucester. Leaves the gallery ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Formichella","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48394774446250,"sku":"FCS-JF-005","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/6371\/9082\/files\/IMG_20260610_121906.png?v=1781110106"},{"product_id":"james-formichella-canvas-print-6","title":"NARWHAL \/ WARHOL","description":"\u003cp\u003eA junkyard doubling as a Warhol. A wrecked green car in the foreground, a row of identical green cars repeating across the middle (Warhol silkscreened the same crash again and again), a pop-bright face grinning from the corner, tabloids rotting in the dirt below. Death and disaster, mass-produced, with a narwhal's name swimming under Warhol's. The serial image as landfill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Formichella is a Gloucester painter who works by association. 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Leaves the gallery ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Formichella","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48394779787434,"sku":"FCS-JF-006","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/6371\/9082\/files\/IMG_20260610_121913.png?v=1781110105"},{"product_id":"james-formichella-canvas-print-7","title":"Mona Mary Leda","description":"\u003cp\u003eA merry-go-round of the most painted woman in the world. At its center a mother and child ride a carousel horse beneath a sunburst (Leonardo's Virgin and Child with Saint Anne), while Leda, the Mona Lisa, and the swan circle past on the turning floor. The notebook runs them together: \"There is a close connection between the Mona Lisa and the figures he used for the Virgin and Saint Anne.\" Devotion, desire, and a smile, all spinning on one axle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Formichella is a Gloucester painter who works by association. 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Leaves the gallery ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Formichella","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48394784473258,"sku":"FCS-JF-007","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/6371\/9082\/files\/IMG_20260610_121838.png?v=1781110105"},{"product_id":"james-formichella-canvas-print-8","title":"Bears and Bulls","description":"\u003cp\u003eGoldilocks sits down to a hand of cards between two enormous bears, watched over by a grinning financier, a face on a dollar bill, and a small blue bull penned in a frame on the wall. Two tales of appetite collapse into one: the three bears of the nursery and the bulls and bears of the market. The little girl is gambling, and everyone at this table wants what isn't theirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Formichella is a Gloucester painter who works by association. Each of these canvases has a companion in \u003cem\u003eAn Alphabetical Caprice\u003c\/em\u003e, a notebook he compiled from his working notes and source clippings: an A to Z in which every letter spirals off into art history, etymology, money, madness, and mortality. He came to Gloucester from Denver in 1978 for the plein-air light, trained in oil under John C. Terelak, and is an associate member of the North Shore Arts Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of a kind. Giclée on stretched canvas, a flat $180 regardless of size. Fish City Studios, 39 Main St, Gloucester. Leaves the gallery ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Formichella","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48394786930858,"sku":"FCS-JF-008","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/6371\/9082\/files\/IMG_20260610_121900.png?v=1781110105"},{"product_id":"james-formichella-canvas-print-9","title":"The White Elephant","description":"\u003cp\u003eA society gala in washed greens and golds: a blonde in a gown reaching upward, a man bearing a small white elephant on a platter, a seated woman in front, a nude couple at the edge. The white elephant is the gift no one can use and no one can refuse, \"a possession out of proportion to its use,\" the king of Siam's revenge on a courtier he disliked. Generosity as a weapon, served at a party. The oil behind this print won the 2025 Blick Art Materials Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Formichella is a Gloucester painter who works by association. 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