undergraduate Art History major at Saint Peter's College in Jersey
City. Since graduating from Brooklyn Law School in 1983, his artistic
endeavors have become increasingly important to him.
Mr. Scarpa's principal training in the visual arts has been in
photography. He has taken photography workshops with internationally
known artists and teachers, including Ernestine Ruben, Eikoh Hosoe,
Lois Greenfield, and George Krause. Mr. Scarpa's photographic work
concentrates on the nude and the expressive variations found in that
genre.
In 2001, Mr. Scarpa received the H. Juergen Thieck Memorial Award
for Photography from the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. His work
is in private collections at home and abroad, and has been exhibited in
New Jersey, New York, California, and Georgia. Mr. Scarpa has
recently become a member of the Ward-Nasse Gallery, a cooperative,
artist-run alternative space located in Soho, New York City.
In addition to delving into other visual arts, including painting, Mr.
Scarpa has written poetry, songs, conceptual pieces, a children's story,
and a one-act play. Prior to becoming an attorney, he was employed as
a commercial artist and performed as a musician and vocalist. Over
the past several years, he has been writing his memories of youth.
