Justin Mezzapelli (b.1998) is an interdisciplinary artist interested in poetics, repetition, domesticity, and queer identity. He honours visual representations of patience and the passage of time as a method of invitation. While engaging the mundane subject matter of everyday life to organize meaning, his work manifests as drawing, collage, found material assemblage, and moving-image. By a process of collecting or reclaiming ordinary objects and sampling familiar social concepts, he traces an often transitory human experience that emerges from distinctly unassuming worlds. Justin holds a BFA in Integrated Media from OCAD University. He is currently based in Whitby, Ontario.
Justin produces digital explorations alongside creative partner and artist, Brigitte Sampogna. Inhabiting realms of the banal, the absurd, and the domestic, their works interrogate alternative methods of communication with the use of semiotics and accidental poetics within 'the home,' as well as contemplate our coexistence with the natural world. Their work has exhibited locally and internationally.
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Illustration work available for purchase at Partial Gallery.
Open to inquiries of any kind.
Justin Mezzapelli beside Give Me This Day My Daily Bread, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (from The Portrait Backlog, 2022)
Photo by Brigitte Sampogna
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