James Rizzi's technique developed over the course of his entire life, but it really started to first crystallize during his college years in Florida where Rizzi discovered the unique combination of print and sculpture.
As it happens, Rizzi had many finals due at once, and not enough time to do an adequate job on all of them, so he decided to get creative. Rizzi had to submit a final project to a sculpturing class, a painting class, and a printmaking class. Like any college student under pressure, Rizzi looked for a way to get 3 birds with 1 stone! Read more…
Rizzi, born and raised in New York, has turned his childlike imagination into artistic powers - transforming the city itself into something wonderfully original.