Peter Galasso

Born in Brooklyn, New York, 1946. Currently live on Strongs Neck, Long Island.I have a crystal clear memory of painting the wallpaper in my bedroom at age 3 using a toothbrush and a jar of vasoline petroleum jelly. I was, of course, severely admonished and didnt try to paint anything again until I was 5.
I search through color and form for visions and revisions, chaos, resolution, redemption and radiance. I admire almost any type of painting if done well, honestly and from the heart. I am especially drawn to American Abstract Expressionism made popular in the 50s here on Long Island by such luminaries as De Kooning, Pollock, Krasner and Rothko.

BA Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 1971
MBA Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 1982

AWARDS

The New York Times “Curator’s Choice”, The Stage Gallery, juried international exhibition, Abstraction 2003, Merrick, NY, January, 2003
Second Place Award, South Shore Artists Association, juried regional exhibition, October, 1998
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Nearly Out of Reach, Ripe Art Gallery, Huntington, NY
2012 Reflections of Things Unseen, Toast Alternative Art Space, Port Jefferson, NY
2007 Inner and Outer Weather, Alfred Van Loen Gallery, South Huntington Library, Huntington Station, NY
2003 Impulse and Evolution, Alfred Van Loen Gallery, South Huntington Library, Huntington Station, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Local Color, Gallery North, Setauket, NY Awakening, Art League of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY FRAGILE, the Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY
2019
Anything Goes!, the Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY
Stan and His Clan, The Bryant Library, Roslyn, NY
2018
Instructors’ Exhibition, Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY
The Big Picture, Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY
2017
Long Island Abstraction: 2 Generations, Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY
Portrait of an Artist, juried self-portrait show, Main Street Gallery, Huntington, NY
Baby It’s Cold Outside, Long Island Museum,...