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November Issue 2004
Conn Gallery in Landrum, SC, Features Works by Pat & Dom Ferullo and Sharon Tesche
Conn Gallery in Landrum, SC, is pleased to present A Black and White Show, on view through Dec. 10, 2004, featuring works by Pat and Dom Ferullo and Sharon Tesche.
"Aren't these stones just lovely?" the woman bent her face closer to the pile of black and white stones, excitedly ruffling through them with her tong slender fingers. Patricia Ferullo held up a smooth gray one with stripes of white quartz running through it. "Isn't she a beauty?" Her face reflected a child like wonder in the beauty of the stone. She was showing one of the many things she and her husband, Dominick, were using in their mixed media pieces, getting ready for the next show at Conn Gallery.
"Pat" and "Dom" Ferullo met in Florida in the 1960s. They married, and continued on their own paths professionally. Pat taught art for years in Ft. Lauderdale, as well as exhibiting in juried shows and various galleries in Florida, Colorado, New Mexico, North and South Carolina from 1988 to the present. She recently won first place in the Biennial Western North Carolina Juried Exhibit in Tryon N.C. Pat's work is oils, acrylics and mixed media on canvas and board. She uses pale pinks, blues and lavenders, layering colors to create a luminosity that resembles glasswork on canvas. Her figurative renderings are superb, and she's been commissioned by various organizations for her pen and inks.
Dom grew up outside New York City. His work is greatly influenced by his favorite artists (Motherwell, De Kooning, Pollock, Stuart Davis) whom he studied in galleries and museums through out his youth. Later, while living in North Africa, the desert and architecture there fascinated him. Dom's love of nature and the "big city" experience combines to make strong but sensitive mixed media collages and paintings. Dom uses stronger colors, blacks, reds and browns with flashes of green or purple now and then. Dom's education runs from commercial art to clay and sculpture to welding. His works have shown in galleries and shows in New York, Texas, Michigan and the Carolinas since 1989.
Pat and Dom Ferullo are combining a whole new body of paintings and mixed media pieces in this new Black and White Show.
Sharon Tesche, a ceramic artist, creates boxes, tall, square, oblong, lidded. This past year the forms have become simpler and less structured. "The finish work, the firing, holds the drama for me now." Sharon relates.
Tesche spent 30 years in the advertising business, in Texas and California, before retiring to Saluda, NC,with her husband. She pursued her love of clay, and being self-taught, threw herself into the work, in to the shows, and into learning as fast and as much as she could from artists such as Penny Truitt, Steven Forbes-de Soule, Kathy Triplett and Tom Kerrigan.
Tesche's new black and white work is part white crackle raku glazes and part naked raku; a process she experimented with in a workshop last summer. Although Tesche has only started showing her work in the past few years, her process, along with her work, have rocketed to a plane where other artists and art aficionados take note and are impressed by her thoughtful and powerful pieces. Tesche's most recent accolade was winning second place at the 38th Annual Sidewalk Show in Spartanburg, SC.
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