Rodney Durso

Rodney is a graphic designer by trade, and was founder and creative director of Stormhouse Partners, a branding and design agency based in New York. In 2006, while working and teaching as an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design, Rodney rented a studio in West Chelsea thus began his transition into painting and fine art.

Having created 500+ drawings, paintings and collages since then, Rodney’s work has taken on new depth and meaning but is still grounded in a strong sense of graphic organization, color, type and imagery that speaks to his earlier work as designer.

Rodney is also the Founder and Board President at ArtBridge, an arts organization that gives emerging artists unprecedented exposure by exhibiting their work on construction scaffolding and fencing:

He currently lives and works in Chelsea, on Manhattan’s Lower West Side.

Boston University, BS Design and Advertising, 1987
Imperial College, London, UK British Advertising and Design, 1987

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
-A Mix of Many Things, Studio Blue, Charlottesville, VA, 2015
-Artist Month, 39 W 19th, New York City, 2015
-Signs & Symbols, Drift Studio, New York City, 2015
-Rodney Durso, Red Trombome, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2013
-This is Only a Test, Alfa Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, 2008
-Rodney Durso, self produced, New York City, 2007
-Mega-Something, West Chelsea Arts Building, New York 2006
-Mega-Something, Matchbox Gallery, New York City, 2006

SELECT GROUP SHOWS
-Group Show, Colorida Galleria de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal, Spring 2017
-Bringing Down the Temple, Friday Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, Fall 2016
-Works on Paper, Brick Lane Gallery, London, Fall 2016
-On Democracy, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, Fall 2016
-Art Votes: Visualizing the Democratic Process, Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ, Fall 2016
-Lost + Found, Loft Artists Association, Stamford, CT, Fall 2016
-Drawing Lines Across Mediums, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, 2016
-Cut It Out!, Gallery-One, Ellensburg, WA, 2016