Jeff Ferst

Colourist, explorer, lover of México.

Jeff Ferst paints contemporary landscape paintings of vibrant colors and heavy impasto paint as well as abstractions. Ferst's paintings are energetic and celebratory, tactile and visual, grounded in reality and musical in feeling.

As a child, he was involved in drawing and painting, and through his mother he was exposed to art in New York's museums. Ferst went on to major in printmaking (specializing in serigraphs) at New York University, graduating with a BA in Fine Art. One of his printmaking instructors at NYU was also a textile designer, and while in school Ferst produced wall hangings of printed fabric, and created a series of portraits with stuffed fabric on canvas, which he sold through a New York gallery.
From his college days, a group of artists have remained important to Ferst, starting with the Impressionists, for their focus on intense color relationships. In Kandinsky and Klee, he found artists who combined an imaginative approach to abstraction with an inventive and personal feeling for color. In Cubism, Ferst discovered a model for the activated division of space, which he continues to explore in his current work.
The world according to Ferst is completely colourful and thr...

BA, Fine Arts - New York University

Exhibition Schedule
2013-8
Tucson International Airport 2016, 7, 8
Art House Centro 2016, 7, 8
Various group & solo shows

2013
Gallery Catalyst, Toronto, ON group show
Wilde Meyer Gallery, Scottsdale, Group Show
Old Town Artisans, Tucson, AZ solo show
Content Interiors, Tucson, AZ group show
University Colorado at Mesa, group show
Gallery M, Cambridge, ON group show (2)

2012
Accelerator Centre, Waterloo, ON Solo show
Gallery M, Cambridge, ON
US State Department, Dushanbe Embassy

2011
Art Expo NY, NYC
Double T Gallery, Solo Show, Waterloo, Ontario
Art Allies Group Show, Waterloo, Ontario
Society Canadian Artists, Juried Group Show, Leighton Art Centre, Calgary, AB
Scope Hampton, New York
Studio Tour, Cambridge, Ontario
Red Dot Miami

2010
National Juried Art Exhibition 2010, Visual Art Center, Punta Gorda, Florida
Toronto Art Expo, Toronto, ON
Artists Haven Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, July
Artists Haven Gallery, December
Colour & Form Society, Juried Group Show, Toronto, Ontario
Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge, Ontario, Juried Group Show
Glenhyrst Gallery Juried Show, Brantford, Ontario

2009
Art Mode Gallery, Ottawa ON
IIDEX/Neocon, Toronto
International Juried Show, Federation C...