Anthony Miserendino’s sculptures explore the way memory transforms over time, shaped by perspective, distance, and hindsight. His work isolates moments from their surroundings—a market stall, a bartender caught mid-motion, or a hat resting in temporary idleness—creating abstract vignettes that invite viewers to consider the fleeting, influential moments that exist on the edges of daily experience. Through this approach, he captures the monologue of the inner eye, giving weight and form to the often-overlooked details of ordinary life.

“Miserendino’s contribution to the long trajectory of relief, once a medium reserved for commemorating royal processions, battles and war heroes, is to bring it similarly down to earth, to the level of marigolds and cocktails and tortellini, to the stuff of memories more precarious, more fleeting, than what it is typically recorded in our history books or on our civic monuments.”
            -Excerpt from Gyorody, Andrea. “Anthony Miserendino” Artforum, April, 2024. 

Miserendino’s practice builds on extraordinary experience in material exploration and is driven by a guided but permissive pragmatism. He merges sculpture’s tactile physicality with painterly depiction using traditional and contemporary techniques. His fascination with the mutable relationship between subject, material, and process leads him to embrace a wide array of methods, including high relief, sunk relief, clay impressions, casting, carving, and modeling. Each piece is born from a deliberate and experimental approach, demonstrating his willingness to adapt materials to the demands of his subjects, often challenging conventional processes. The resulting sculptures, though conceptually unified, showcase a variety of materials and methods that make the act of creation as intrinsic to the final work as the depicted imagery.