Richard Ferrari

ARTIST STATEMENT

Remove any and all walls that repress your creative spontaneity. Be less rigid when you work. Paint loosely, experiment often, and be a bit dangerous with your materials. Create in a way so that at any point a piece can go from brilliant to bad with one misguided stroke. Then you will love your art.

ARTIST BIO

Richard Ferrari is a self-taught artist born and raised in Somerville, MA. He believes that creativity is something that must continually be unlocked within the artist psyche. In order to reach an artistic paradise, one should work uninhibited and without fear of mistake, otherwise there is no chance of spontaneity and thus no true expression within the studio. When an artist starts to find a groove and feel at home within his work, he must immediately change his process otherwise he will be trapped in a cycle of comfort and his work will suffer as a result. It is crucial to keep the magic of the unknown alive in your art, and the only way to accomplish this is to abandon all constraints and to work freely, without reservation.

Richard often changes his style and techniques from series to series, and tries to avoid being locked into any one specific category of art. Recently, his works have ranged...

Bachelors Degree from the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College, 2005

Out of the Blue Too Gallery, Cambridge MA “Momentary Abstraction” Ongoing

440 Gallery, Brooklyn NY “Personal is Political is Personal” Summer 2016

Warehouse XI & The Uniun, Somerville MA “Hidden Messages” Summer 2016

Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston MA “The Biennial Project 4” Spring 2016

The Chelsea City Gallery, Chelsea MA “Figurative Ladies” Winter 2015

Out of the Blue Too Gallery, Cambridge MA “Circus Arts” Summer 2015

PUBLIC ART

The Somerville Arts Council Phone Art Box Project


PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

California, USA
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