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Caleb Getto




Caleb is an interdisciplinary artist working in printmaking, drawing, installation, sculpting, and writing. Within these media, they explore how absence and presence store information while also investigating the body, mind, and personal memories both separately and in relation to one another. Thoughts and questions about secrets and facades occupy them regularly. They are from New England and currently reside in Providence.


. Selected Works
. 909 Beaverhead Road
. heaven is the line 
on the horizon
. Archive

shell, room, window & horizons


pencil on paper

2024





















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Handbound book of
poems with silkcreen
and linocut cover










Cottage Map


Pencil on paper

2023


























Holding


Watercolor and typewritten text in a handmade clamshell box

2022



















it won’t quite reach










teak, handmade kozo paper

2022










I tried to touch the bottom, but could not - I,II,III


pencil & watercolor on matboard

2022








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The Raised Garden Bed


2020





“As our bodies have skeletons so should our garden have a bony structure. It is only upon a firm foundation that the irregular growth of plant and tree can best clothe and deck the garden. Frilled edge of flower contrasts with severe edge of design … It was by reason of its severe underlying structure that the really old garden scored its success; for what could be more rigid than the walled garden, with the tight symmetry of espalier fruit trees, ruler straight lines of vegetable patch and unswerving order of box edging?”

Clare Leighton, Four Hedges















The Raised Garden Bed

2020










Thoughts Between New Haven & Norwell


Handbound Book with Typewritten Text

2020











Redefining “Master” Copies 


Clamshell Box - Inventory Booklet - Various Drawing Media on Paper

2020

























Copy After Pitseolak Ashoona’s ‘Woman with Doll’

Sumi ink on paper




































Copy After Roser Bru’s ‘Las Niñas Crecen (The Girls Grow/Grow Up)’

Watercolor on paper



















Copy After Akira Arita’s ‘Untitled (Wooden Horse)’

Graphite on paper









2 Bed | 1 Bath | 1,100 sq ft


Stone Lithograph on Rives heavyweight

2020










We were both a small part of each other’s lives,
It lived a life before me
And will live a life after me.

I would certainly say
It left more of an imprint on me
Than I did on it.











A facilitator of my memories that does not demand a finite Truth, but rather allows my mind to meander in and out of this particular frame of reference. To bind memories to a particular image is to bind memories to a Truth. I would rather explore the myriad truths that exist throughout my memories, desperately trying in vain to give my memories some sort of corporeal form even when I know they can never be as visceral outside my mind as they are inside.










2 Bed | 1 Bath | 1,100 sq ft


Studies & Variations





































Cavity Caleb


To cut open . . . To open up

1 : 1 Scale

PVC, wire, paper mache, plaster, and aluminum

2019