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Roger Ferragallo

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Favorite Medium: paintings
Statement: Having all but abandoned traditional pigment, dye and ink, I find myself dazzled by a digital medium that allows one to paint with electrons streaming from a cathode in rainbows of light--in a space as alive as the atmosphere itself. I marvel at each new introduction of software upgrade growing in concert with increasingly powerful computers. These tools are unprecedented because together they form a light speed synaptic medium allowing one to create, paint, change, store, scan and infinitely modify, in real time, whatever the mind dares imagine. I can think of no medium, past or present, that coalesce so many powerful tools all within arms' reach, i.e., 16 million colors, a variety of wet and dry paint mediums, an arsenal of graphic tools of every description plus the power of photo composition and image processing.My paintings draw their inspiration from man, nature, science and cosmology. Drawing from this, I pursue my quest for human presence and meaning in a colossal and bewildering alive universe that finds life at all levels of cosmic scale: strangely mysterious, hauntingly beautiful, dark, luminous, patterned, terrifying, puzzling--from quantum to supernova realities. In this same vein I continue to pursue an active interest in visual perception and stereoscopic space that began in the late 60's with a series of drawings and large acrylic stereoscopic canvases.
Bibliography: 6/21/59; A Festival of Experiments in the Lively Arts of Film and Stage by R. Ferragallo; San Francisco Chronicle; 6/58; Motion Image & Form, San Francisco Art & Dance Fusion conceived and written by R. Ferragallo and J. Marks, San Francisco 'Spring '74:Vol 7 No 2; Leonardo, Intl Journal of the Contemporary Artist, ""On Stereoscopic Painting"" R. Ferragallo; 1992; Volcanoes, produced for KCSM, San Mateo, R. Ferragallo

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El Sobrante, California
United States
trecate@comcast.net
Phone: 510 222 4334
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Awards: '93 Truevision International Video/Graphics Competition - Runner-up, Still Artistic Abstract Category; '94 American Center For Design Conference, Miyako Hotel, San Francisco featured private showing of ""the world's first interactive (free vision) stereoscopic mural wall 8' x 20'; '96 to '2000; Artist In Residence, Gage Tile Corporation International, Wi; development of interactive (stereoscopic) aluminum tile murals; '97 Planetfest Art Show, Pasadena Center, CA - 2nd place prize $500; 10/25-26/96; Cafe Aubette, East 27th, NY. One man showing of stereoscopic art prints with stereoscopic aluminum and lenticular panoramagram/stereoscopic images;
Teaching Experience: *1961-1972; founder, professor and chairman of the Laney College Art Department, Oakland CA; *1972-1992; founder, professor and chairman of the Media Communications Television Dept and Peralta Colleges Television Network, Oakland CA; *1957-1967; Scenic Designer and film maker, Contemporary Dancers Foundation, San Francisco; *1958-1961; Ferragallo & Associates, Inc., Architectural Services, San Francisco;

Education

Degree: BAE, MAE
Institution: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Grad Year: 50, 53

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Roger Ferragallo California art digital 30 x 24	Roger Ferragallo California art paintings 36 x 22
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