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Jeff Ferst
JEFF FERST RESUME Exhibition Schedule 2011 Art Expo NY, NYC Double T Gallery, Solo Show, Waterloo, Ontario Art Allies Group Show, Waterloo, Ontario Society Canadian Artists, Juried Group SAhow, 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 Canadian Artists. Vancouver Saint John Art Center, Saint John NB Chancery Art Gallery, Bracebridge ON 2008 Art Mode Gallery, Calgary AB 2007 Art Mode Gallery, Ottawa ON Gallery Double T, Waterloo ON 2006 Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge, ON 2002 The Grand View Juried Exhibition, Waterloo ON The Eldon Gallery, Waterloo ON 2001 The Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge ON 2000 Pride Juried Show, Forest Gallery, London, Group Show The Grand Theatre, London ON London Arts Council Gallery, London ON 1999 Women’s Art Assoc., Toronto ON Thames Art Gallery, Chatham ON Galleria Mall, London ON 1998 Gallery 54, London ON Education & Awards New York University, BA • Who’s Who American Universities & Colleges 1976 • Bronze Medal, Art Student’s League • Recipient Founders Day Award Business • • Featured in the Preston Catalogue of fashion & art, Summer 2008 • Board member Waterloo Regional Arts Council 2004-6 • Board member of Cambridge Arts Guild (Cambridge Centre for the Arts-CCA 2003-4) • EPAC chair of CCA (2000-2004) which developed concept and execution of centre gallery space • Board of Directors Stratford Chamber of Commerce 1992-4 • Stratford Downtown BIA Chair 1994-5, board member 1992-4 • Other volunteer and board involvement in Toronto & London Regional Art Councils • CTV, Southwestern region, Noonday interview • Rogers Television, Grand Living, feature segment Collections In private & corporate collections in the USA and Canada including: Grand River Hospital, Cambridge Memorial Hospital, BMO Nesbitt Burns, Raymond James, CIGI Elected Membership Society of Canadian Artists Colour & Form Society, Canada JEFF FERST BIOGRAPHY Jeff Ferst paints “geometrical landscapes”, essentially abstract canvases combining blocks of vivid color and curvilinear forms, out of which emerge elements of nature, buildings and the human form. Ferst’s paintings are energetic and celebratory, tactile and visual, grounded in reality and musical in feeling. Ferst was born in the Bronx in New York City in 1955. 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 in 1976. 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. After college, Ferst traveled around Europe and the U.S., eventually settling in Canada in 1978, where he has lived ever since. After running a food company and working in furniture design, he started producing a series of realistically painted still lifes and landscapes. These early works, while traditional in subject matter, had a contemporary edge and the vibrant palette that was to mark Ferst’s later paintings. In this period, he was exhibiting his work primarily in galleries in Ontario. In 2005, Ferst experienced a personal and artistic turning point. He survived an episode of Sudden Cardiac Death, and after emerging from the trauma began to paint again. But the work that emerged was new to Ferst, completely abstract paintings with vibrant squares of color. The process of making this emerging work was, in the artist’s words, “natural and effortless.” These painting have continued to evolve over the next five years, becoming dense with curving arcs and interlocking forms. Faces and bodies, trees and animals, all became visible in the work. Recently, Ferst has been combining multiple panels to create a single painting. The paintings vibrate with color, creating a moving and joyful visual experience, described in 2008 as “flagrantly flamboyant” by Tara Tassone in the Preston Catalogue. Ferst has shown his painting in exhibitions at Art Mode in Ottawa, and Calgary, and at venues across North America including the Saint John Art Center; La Guardia Airport, NY; Art Dallas, Dallas, TX ; Artists Haven Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale and at many other venues. The artist is an Elected Member of the Canadian Society of Artists and The Colour & Form Society. In 2012 he takes on the VP Membership role for the SCA. 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