When one creates, the endless noise surrounding us gets worked through and for a time the world makes sense. After it is done, you have something that communicates.

T he greatest themes in life are explored through art. Love, hate, jealousy, fear, anger, passion and anything else you can imagine. I believe an artist's job is to tell these stories.

A fascination for the physiological aspect of art pushes me in the direction of the figure. Im interested in creating characters and stylistically combining them with imagery and notions from my own life, I create the stories with symbols and metaphor. With those metaphors I ask the viewers to interpret for them selves the questions that lie in the work

These questions are different for everyone, and that is what makes each person look at a piece of art differently. I Still believe paintings and drawings can be maps to your soul if you let them be. Because we are all connected each scene and image can point to your own life...if you are open to see it.

Symbols taken from life seem to have profound meaning for everyone as they are seen and used everyday. They're symbolism is tied to ones personal life and have endless possibility's in meaning. However taken out of real life context and placed in an artist own mythology they have the effect of triggers for viewers. My favorites are still swords and clocks.

- René Capone

I grew up in upstate New York. My childhood was far from normal, infact it was down right horrific. Im the oldest of Four very emotionally and physiclly abused children. The best and only thing that i can state n this short bio, is that i escaped.

In school I developed a love making art at a very young age. I loved it for the way it made me feel, and for the way other children would look over my shoulder to see what I was making. It was later in life that I realized the full potential of creating art as i tried to tackle the demons of the mishapen upbringing : The realization that expression and creation were freedom. Art was a place where one could say, do or believe in their own way.

I went to art college in New York City at Parsons School Of Design. Naturally I majored in fine art. New York fed my appetite for excitemen. Having always been the curious type I was in heaven. But the big city was not for me...i had to go where rainbows end.

I live and work in San Francisco, I find allot of creative energy here. A city full of runaways, i fit in here. I'm still exploring the possibilities of meaning in interpretation with rendering with figure. Now i tell stories and illustrate the passages with my characters, In 2007 I wrote my first short novel "The Legend of Hedgehog Boy". I hope to get it published this year.

To all the people who have a piece of mine in their homes, Thank you. Without people to look, there is no artist. So from the bottom of my heart there is nothing but respect and love for you all. The older I get the more shocked I am at how many of my little creations

Solo Exhibitions:
2008 "Selections from Hedgehog Boy" Bioscript, SF,CA
2007 "Legend of Hedgehog Boy" Magnet, SF,CA
2007 "Letters to Future Lovers" Red Spade Gallery, PE, AZ
2006 "Combining Forces" Russell Capone Studios, SF, CA
2005 "A Different View, Live Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 “Passages”, Live Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 “New work” Live Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 “Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2002 “In a boys Dream” Squint, San Francisco, CA
2001 Slide show for Ericson Communication (international youth conference) Stockholm, Sweden

Group Exhibitions:
2006 “Foreplay” Monkdogz Urban Art, New York City, NY
2006 “Everyday People ” Griffin Davis/Belcher Studios, San Francisco, CA
2005 “Emerge” Griffin Davis/Belcher Studios, San Francisco, CA
2004 “Pulp” Live Art gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 "Alumni art show" Niskayuna art Gallery, N.Y
2003 “Mount”, Live Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 “Spice” Catherine Clark, San Francisco, CA
2003 “Mount”, Live Art Gallery, San Francisco, C.A
2003 “Naked in August” City Art, San Francisco, CA
2002 Group show Samuel E. Gallery, Schenectady, N.Y
2002 "Locker room" Highlands gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Publication:

Hedgehog Boy at Magnet, Bay Times, September, 2007
Illustration for RDF magazine, summer issue 2007
"Velvet Mafia Feature "www.velvetmafia.com, 2006
"Stripped" the Illustrated male Bruno Gmunder , 2006
"Rene Capone's One Man Show Delights", Bay Times, April 28, 2005 p.21 *
"Close Quarters" YGA, ongoing illustrations, issues 1-5
Front cover, Gertrude; "a journal of voice and vision", August, 2004 *
"Pain and Ink" BLUE #50, April. 2004, p.12 *
"Who is Rene Capone" Cybersocket, Jan. 2004, p.15 *
"In a Boy's Dream" feature on getunderground.com, Oct. 2003
"Artist spotlight", QNortheast, April 2003 *
"Inviting your inspection", Bay Area Reporter, October 2002, p.1+40
Video feature, www.hoard.com, online art magazine*, May 2002
Expressions feature www.Mogenic.com, January 2002
“Singing with Rene Capone" X-Y, April 2001, p.16-17 *
Artfusion.com, Internet art-zine, September 2000
"Boys in Blue" Joey, September 2000, p.42-45
“New York City Boy" Strait, May 2000, p. 78-79
Portfolio pages, Vice magazine, November 1999,
“René Capone and the Art of Desire" X-Y, August 1998. "Lust" p.16-17
“Capone Steals Spotlight." Town and Village, March 12, 1998, p.5

Corporate Collections:
Glaxo Smith Cline, 2004

Private Collections:
JW Kooistra / The Netherlands
Rob Bittner / Langly Canada
Gene Raphael Marcos / Jersey City, NJ
Carol Dhooge / Albany, NY
Noel Dhooge / Niskayuna, NY
Frankie "Angel" / San Francisco, CA
David Beede / Los Angeles, CA
Barry Lawrence / Sonoma, CA
Danny Garcia / Modesto, CA
Derrek Peel / San Francisco, CA
Charles E. Kopp / San Francisco, CA
Chris Mullendore / San Francisco, CA
Bruce Neumeier / San Francisco, CA
Jon James / Letts, Iowa
The Irwin Collection / San Francisco – St. Louis
Matthew & Kris Cheshire / Liverpool, England
Ken Champagne / Windham NH
Dean Buckerfield, Joshua New / S.F, CA
Robert Blaszkouski / Detroit, MI
Todd Hearing / Oxford, PA.
Richard Trama Jr. / Mays Landing, N.J
Jim McKay / Chateau De Mont. Pau, France
Greg Kessler / Sacramento CA
Keith Griffith / New Orleans, L.A
Thomas F. White / San Francisco, C.A
David Podger & Chris Jones / San Francisco, CA
Eric Clauson / Tokyo, Japan
Richard Rue / Washington, DC
Howard Roffman / San Franciso, CA
Johan Pattyranie / Sigtuna, Sweden
Sanna Johnsson / Lindingo, Sweden
John Unglert / IX TECH/Wyckoff, NY
Jim Arbogast / Morgantown, WV
Micheal Minson / San Francisco, CA
Tom Peterson / New York State

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