Caito's ART

Welcome to my Official website. Thanks for visiting my site. MY current exhibition in the Jang June Art Gallery in China is going very well with over 350 signed prints sold and 14 original oils on canvas and wood sold. I have visited China seven times in the last ten months, and to those who say that China wants to take over America i can only say, Why would anyone want to hurt there best customers. I am painting at a prolific rate when i get back into my studio, at my home in Las Vegas. My current paintings will be uploaded to this site very soon. The Canvas Cafe in Las Vegas is currently featuring my work with ten paintings at there las vegas cafe on silverado ranch and bermuda drive.Special thanks to Aaron and his great staff for helping us hang and showcase my work. THE Canvas Cafe is a national chain in the making , that will showcase the work of area artists and support the arts community. My heart and support will always be grateful to the patron saints of art who make being an artist both rewarding and profitable. My tribute painting to the fallen troops of iraq is currently been changed again to 3900, i so hope and pray to finish this work soon. Thanks to the local tv stations and the Review Journal paper in Las Vegas for the continuing coverage of this important work, that reminds Americans that young men an women are dying everyday for this so called War on terror. I feel that having a war on terror is like saying were going to have a war on sneezing. have we not learned from history that this policy is foolish and only profits the stockholders of the war industry. I am reminded of somthing dick cheney said when he was named as the vice presidential running mate in 2000, he said "I WILL DIVEST ALL MY STOCK IN HALIBURTON, BECTHEL,GENERAL DYNAMICS, RATHEON,PG AND E,AN ALL OTHER STOCKS I HAVE IN DEFENSE CONTRACTORS FROM THIS DAY FORWARD" Well, he did, he divested all those stocks into his daughters name. This painting which ive titled 2121 ,which is the number of troops who had died when i started it two years ago, it is changed on a semi daily basis to help to remind me and the people who pass by my home and studio that there is a cost of war. THE TODAY SHOW will do a feature on this work in an upcoming show. I started this painting after dick cheney, on the show Meet The Press said "the left wing democrats would like to show this number 2121 in a negative lite, but in reality tim, we lose more people to drunk drivers every six months" I was so mad i went out to my studio and created 2121 in very bold and bright red letters and hung it in front of my house the next day. Before the paint had fully dried the number had changed to 2126. I thought about leaving the painting as is, but each day as the number kept growing i deciced to change it every other day as the number grew. It has become a hard labor of love and respect to the fallen. I never set out to gain any publicity from this work, people would stop and ask if it was my house address, i would say no, they would then ask what is the meaning of the number, and i always said you just have to think about it. One man and his wife drove by my house everyday for over a year and asked each other what does that number mean, and why does it keep changing all the time. Well one day as the husband was passing my house, he was listening to talk radio when the host said that the number of troops that have died in Iraq was now 3000, he looked at my painting and it hit him. He told me he pulled over and called his wife and told her the meaning, they both said it deeply affected them. That is the power of art. When the producer of the today show called he asked me if i did this painting to get publicity, i promptly hung up on him after i told him to go fuck himself. He called back and apologized and said that they would be in touch to do a story on my painting. I really think that the power of this painting and all great art is the fact that it can make people think. Of all the thousands of paintings ive done over the years, this one 36x4 foot painting titled 2121 is my best. God bless American Troops Everywhere, from any war, you are all THE GREATEST GENERATIONS..............CAITO